New Delhi, May 30 -- The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the State is obligated to compensate a person for every day of illegal detention, observing that personal liberty can never be treated as a "trivial matter" and cannot be subordinated to bureaucratic indecision over whether to challenge a judicial order. A bench of justices Sanjay Karol and AG Masih directed the Rajasthan government to pay Rs.11 lakh compensation to a man who remained behind bars for 24 days despite a competent court having ordered his release after verification of sureties. "The liberty of an individual is not a trivial matter. The State cannot continue curtailing the same in the face of a court order, on account of its slow bureaucratic processes...," held the be...