On 17th August, 1989, the respondent herein was handcuffed and both his arms were tied by a rope and he was taken through the streets and the same is number in dispute.
A local paper called Tarun Bharat published from Sholapur, carried in its issue of 17th August, 1989 a news item which stated that the respondent, an undertrial prisoner, would be taken in a procession or a parade from Faujdar Chavadi Police Station through the main squares of the city for the purpose of investigation.
The respondent herein filed a writ petition seeking a censure of the police officer and to award damages.
10,000/ by way of companypensation to the respondent herein, an undertrial prisoner, on the ground that the said police officer was guilty of violation of fundamental right of an undertrial prisoner under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
It further directed that an entry should be made in his service record.
A Division Bench of the High Court of Bombay having exonerated the Superintendent of Police and other respondents, held that the 4th respondent Shri Prakash Chavan, Inspector of Police, who is one of the appellants before us, has subjected the undertrial prisoner to an unwarranted humiliation and indignity which cannot be done to any citizen of India and accordingly directed him to pay the companypensation and he was also censured as mentioned above.
During the investigation, the police suspected that the respondent herein was a party to the said murder.
He was arrested in Karnataka State and was brought to Sholapur in the early hours of 17th August, 1989.
The facts that give rise to this appeal are as follows.
One Ganesh Kolekar was murdered on 2nd August, 1989.
Jayachandra Reddy, J. This appeal has been filed by the State of Maharashtra against an order of the High Court of Bombay directing Shri Prakash Chavan, Inspector of Police, Faujdar Chavadi Police Station, Sholapur, the fourth respondent before the High Court, to pay an amount of Rs.
