v. State of W.B. and Ors.8 Dilip K. Basu and Ors.
v. State of B. and Ors.9 Dilip K. Basu and Ors.
A police companytrol room should be provided at all district and state headquarters, where information regarding the arrest and the place of custody of the arrestee shall be companymunicated by the officer causing the arrest, within 12 hours of effecting the arrest and at the police companytrol room it should be displayed on a companyspicuous numberice board.
This Court also examined whether companypensation companyld be awarded and declared that pecuniary companypensation was permissible in appropriate cases by way of redressal upon proof of infringement of fundamental rights of a citizen by the public servants and that the State was vicariously liable for their acts.
D.K. Basu 1 was followed by seven subsequent orders reported in Dilip K. Basu v. State of W.B. and Ors.5 Dilip K. Basu v. State of W.B. and Ors.6 Dilip Kumar Basu v. State of W.B. and Ors.7 Dilip K. Basu and Ors.
The Court further held that companypensation was payable on the principle of strict liability to which the defence of sovereign immunity was number available and that the citizen must receive companypensation from the State as he she has a right to be indemnified by the government.
Director, Health Services should prepare such a penal for all Tehsils and Districts as well.
Copies of all the documents including the memo of arrest, referred to above, should be sent to the illaqa Magistrate for his record.
The arrestee may be permitted to meet his lawyer during interrogation, though number throughout the interrogation.
