CW-2025-0032Janjgir-Champa, ChhattisgarhJudgment 22 July 2025

Mulmula Police Station House Officer and others vs State of Chhattisgarh (Mulmula Police personnel vs State of Chhattisgarh)

The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Replace 'merciless beating' with attributed wording; replace tagline with defence (mob assault, expert doubt, para 9+) and its rejection. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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By judgment dated 22 July 2025 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 611/2019, 705/2019, 681/2019, 609/2019 with Acquittal Appeal No. 676/2019, the Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Sanjay K. Agrawal, Deepak Kumar Tiwari, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 4 police personnel, namely: Station House Officer, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa; Constable, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa; Constable, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa; Sainik, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa.

Register number
CG 11 CW 0004
Case reference
Criminal Appeal Nos. 611/2019, 705/2019, 681/2019, 609/2019 with Acquittal Appeal No. 676/2019 / 2025:CGHC:34873-DB
Court and date
Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Sanjay K. Agrawal, Deepak Kumar Tiwari, JJ.), 22 July 2025
Officer(s) at the material time
Station House Officer, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa; Constable, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa; Constable, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa; Sainik, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
Finding of the Court (extract)
“उन्हें दिया गया आजीवन कारावास का दंडादेश अपास्त किया जाता है और इस परिवर्तित दोषसिद्धि के लिए उन्हें दस वर्ष के कठोर कारावास से दंडादिष्ट किया जाता है।” (at para 35)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 10 years.
Present status of the proceedings
The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.

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Judgment dated 22 July 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.

Recorded allegations

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Custodial deathPrimary
Material fact supported

Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.

Official finding: supports allegation.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“उन्हें दिया गया आजीवन कारावास का दंडादेश अपास्त किया जाता है और इस परिवर्तित दोषसिद्धि के लिए उन्हें दस वर्ष के कठोर कारावास से दंडादिष्ट किया जाता है।” (para 35)

Institutional response

2
Date not established

Conviction

Concluded
Trial court (as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment) External · Binding

The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment.

Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2025:CGHC:34873-DB
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22 Jul 2025

Order issued

Concluded
Chhattisgarh High Court External · Binding

The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.

Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: 2025:CGHC:34873-DB
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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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