MEENA SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This application has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by the sole petitioner, who is widow of late Sudhir Singh alias Bhoma for an appropriate writ/order/direction upon the respondents for compensation as the husband of the petitioner was murdered while he was in jail custody.

(2.) The short facts giving rise to this application is that the petitioner's husband Sudhir Singh was arrested in connection with some criminal case by the police and remanded to jail custody on 22-1-1999 while her husband was in jail custody and undergoing treatment in the jail Hospital at about 7.30 in the evening, other prisoners led by one Anil Sharma with more than dozen of his associates attacked the petitioner's husband with Chhura, iron rods, belts etc. resulting in his death. Accordingly, the First Information Report was also lodged by one Hare Ram Singh alias Manoj Singh being Sadar (Lower Bazar) PS Case No.53 of 1999 for the offences under Ss. 147, 148, 149, 323, 324, 307 and 302 of the Fardbayan of the Informant reads as follows:

(3.) One supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the petitioner stating therein that a proceeding before Human Rights Commission was also initiated and the copy of the order passed in the said proceeding has been filed, from which it appears that the Government of Bihar was directed to pay compensation to the petitioner in the amount of Rs. two lakhs.