CW-2010-0001Bharuch, GujaratJudgment 12 January 2010

Hansot Man vs State of Gujarat & Ors.

The Gujarat High Court held Hansot police grossly negligent in the lock-up death of Rameshbhai Parmar, arrested on 6 May 1995 in largely non-cognizable offences and kept overnight instead of being produced before the nearby magistrate. The Court found that after he complained of stomach pain around 1:30 a.m., he was left without medical help for over an hour while police slowly arranged a vehicle, dying at 2:47 a.m., with two unexplained ante-mortem bruises. Though the death was attributed to GI perforation rather than custodial violence, the Court held the State liable for infringing the arrestee's Article 21 rights. It partly allowed the petition, directing Rs 1 lakh compensation to the widow under Article 226. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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Report card

By judgment dated 12 January 2010 in Special Criminal Application No. 428 of 1998, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: H. N. Devani, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).

Register number
GJ 16 CW 0001
Case reference
Special Criminal Application No. 428 of 1998
Court and date
Gujarat High Court (Coram: H. N. Devani, J.), 12 January 2010
Officer(s) at the material time
Not identified in the cited sources (Hansot Police Station)
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Article 226 of the Constitution of India
Finding of the Court (extract)
“However, as is evident from the facts noted hereinabove, there is gross negligence on the part of the police authorities in providing medical treatment to the arrestee. In the first place, the husband of the petitioner was arrested in connection …” (at para 27)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

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The Gujarat High Court judgment dated 12 January 2010 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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Custodial deathPrimary
Material fact supported

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Official finding: supports allegation.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“However, as is evident from the facts noted hereinabove, there is gross negligence on the part of the police authorities in providing medical treatment to the arrestee. In the first place, the husband of the petitioner was arrested in connection …” (para 27)

Institutional response

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12 Jan 2010

Order issued

Concluded
Gujarat High Court External · Binding

The Gujarat High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.

Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: Special Criminal Application No. 428 of 1998
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))

Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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