Between October 1979 and July 1980, undertrial prisoners at Bhagalpur, Bihar, were blinded, allegedly by police. Ten petitioned the Supreme Court on 9 October…
Checked 21 Oct 2026: no case number or order on the 2020 petition, and no appeal after 2004 or 2011, was located. That does not prove none exist.
NewsClick reported 18 survivors without the Rs 750 monthly payment since November 2019; their advocate said it was interest on a Rs 30,000 deposit and sought a revision.…
Justice Dharnidhar Jha upheld the convictions of Mohammed Wasimuddin and Binda Prasad and acquitted Mankeshwar Singh; a sessions judge had earlier acquitted all three.
The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal on 10 March 2004 and he began a two-year sentence on 6 April, seventeen years after his conviction.
The CBI's Lucknow branch investigated the blinding at Amarpur police station; the court convicted an officer-in-charge, an ASI and a havildar.
In Rudul Sah the Court ordered Rs 30,000 as an interim award; the Khatri orders read here awarded none.
The Court said observations could prejudice the accused and it would await the trial's progress.
The Court found no proof his suspension was a counter-blast; the order also recites 6 plus 12 prisoners blinded in 1979-80.
The order records a Rs 15,000 deposit from the Prime Minister's Fund and Rs 15,000 from Bihar in each prisoner's name, plus a training scheme for 33.
The Court held sections 162 and 172 CrPC do not bar production in a writ case.
Poor accused persons must be told of their right to a State-funded lawyer at first production and every remand.
Fifteen said police blinded them and two said members of the public did.
Minister Yogendra Makwana said the government was shocked, the Prime Minister had sanctioned Rs 15,000 for each blinded undertrial, and 14 cases were registered against…
Complaints to a district judge in July 1980 had led to no action.
The Court's 1982 order recites 18; the State told Parliament 29 to 31; a 1982 order records 33.
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