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The High Court took suo motu cognizance of a custodial death where an undertrial prisoner detained under Section 302 IPC died in District Jail, Mahasamund, with 35 injuries found on his body during postmortem. State counsel stated Rs 7,50,000 had already been paid on 20.09.2025 per Assistant Jail Superintendent letter…
Read the court recordA Seepat man, aged 34 and the sole breadwinner of his family, was arrested by PS Seepat on 18 January 2024 for possessing six litres of mahua liquor and died in custody on 22 January 2024 with a fatal blunt head injury and multiple ante-mortem injuries recorded in the Section 176 CrPC judicial inquiry. The Supreme…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Summoned to Police Station Gharghoda, Raigarh, a Gharghoda man was arrested merely on suspicion though no cognizable or non-bailable offence was made out, and an Ishtgasa under BNSS ss.170/126 was prepared on 25 October 2025. Although the…
Read the court recordThe High Court quashed FIR No. 0425/2025 dated 29.04.2025 and chargesheet No. 453/2025 under Section 6 of Chhattisgarh Gambling (Prohibition) Act, 2022 against the petitioner, finding he was implicated solely on the custodial memorandum statement of co-accused [name withheld] recorded at 10:30 hours before the…
Read the court recordThe Division Bench held that law student and Bhilai hotel operator [name withheld] was subjected to an illegal hotel raid at Kohka on 8 September 2025, arrest without FIR on mere suspicion, and mechanical remand, establishing illegal arrest, unlawful detention and unwarranted incarceration in breach of Article 21. The…
Read the court recordThe High Court found serious procedural lapses and irregularities by police officials at Smriti Nagar Chowki, Durg. The petitioners were illegally detained, subjected to physical and mental torture, handcuffed illegally, paraded on public roads, and forced to shout humiliating slogans. The SHO appeared unauthorizedly…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. The Division Bench allowed the writ petition of Durga Devi Katholiya, holding the State liable for the custodial death of her 41-year-old husband [name withheld] at PS Arjuni, Dhamtari. The court found he was hale and hearty when produced…
Read the court recordThe 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.
Read the court recordDrop/replace tagline: the proved departmental charge (charge-sheet, IO report, appellate finding) is the institutional case and is fully recorded. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Drop/replace tagline with defence plea (conversion to s.304, stress/leave) and its rejection (para 32). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Replace tagline with State contention (fall on railway line) and its rejection on post-mortem/CCTV grounds. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordReplace tagline with State case (paras 5, 7: suicide by Salphas tablet, no atrocity, DE ongoing against SHO); attribute third-degree passage to the court (para 15). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Replace tagline with State contention (para 5: arrest on suspicion, surety default, denial of illegality). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Replace bond sentence with: 'without the prior show-cause required by s.107(1) CrPC (para 15)'; add State contention (para 7: arrest on suspicion, bond default, denial of illegality). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Rewrite: attribute home-arrest/no-grounds claims to petitioners (paras 3-4), add State version (paras 12-13: spot arrest 3:30pm, son intimated), state violation as s.107(1) show-cause failure (para 23). Matters not addressed in the cited…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. A Minpa man (about 30), of Minpa village under PS Chintagupha, Sukma, was arrested on a wrong identity, sharing his name with a wanted accused, though not wanted in any criminal case, and spent 7 months 26 days in Dantewada jail. The Additional…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Constable applied to add his second wife and minor child as nominees in his service record, admitting he contracted a second marriage during the subsistence of the first without prior government permission. A charge-sheet issued under the…
Read the court recordThe Division Bench dismissed police constable 's writ appeal against the Single Judge's order dated 18 April 2016, upholding his dismissal from service ordered on 11 March 2003. The court held all three departmental charges proved: 43 days of unauthorised absence, misbehaviour with a victim woman, and incorrigible…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. A Takhatpur man, a labourer suspected of theft at his employer's house, was taken by PS Takhatpur police from his village on 5/6 January 1992 and beaten with lathis through the night at a school building in Bandha for 14-15 hours; he died en…
Read the court recordOn 18 April 2016 the Chhattisgarh High Court (Prashant Kumar Mishra, J.) dismissed the writ petition of Constable of the District Force, Rajnandgaon, upholding his dismissal from service. The 2003 charge sheet alleged 43 days of unauthorised absence (21 September to 4 November 2002), an indecent act with a woman…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Police Constable was served a three-charge memo on 3 April 1989 alleging 75 days of unauthorized absence from 21 October 1988 to 4 January 1989, uncultured language toward the department, and incorrigibility despite earlier punishments. He…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. SAF Constable (No. 636, 30th Battalion, Jagdalpur) was suspended after he allegedly left his duty post with others on the night of 21/22 October 1993, consumed liquor outside the police lines, and was then prosecuted for the murder of Head…
Read the court recordThe Chhattisgarh High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh to Ganeshi Bai for the death of her husband [name withheld] in police custody. Arrested in Crime No. 206/2005 under Section 25 of the Arms Act and being escorted to Central Jail Bilaspur by respondents 3 and 4, he died en route; police claimed he tried to escape and was…
Read the court recordThe Chhattisgarh High Court Division Bench (Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.) allowed the State's writ appeals and upheld the 30 September 1993 dismissal of five PS Manpur police personnel — two constables, two head constables and the Town Inspector. Three major misconducts in discharge of official duties, including…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court held that the appellant, an Ayurvedic doctor taken to Pondi Police Station on 24 September 1992 instead of Baikunthpur Jail, was abused, assaulted and photographed holding a self-humiliating placard that the police then circulated. The Court found, as the High Court had, that he suffered physical and…
Read the court recordThe Chhattisgarh High Court awarded Rs 1.5 lakh additional compensation to Motimbai and her child for the custodial death of Chhotelal Soni, forcibly taken by respondent No. 6 from Balco to Janjgir-Champa on 11 September 1999 and beaten brutally in transit custody, dying the same day. The State Human Rights Commission…
Read the court recordA Raipura man, arrested on suspicion of theft, was taken handcuffed and chained by two PS Baradwar police officials to Kumhiya pond at village Raipura to recover a concealed brass vessel and compelled to dive in; he drowned and his body was found floating on 21 October 1997. The court found sheer negligence and…
Read the court recordThe Chhattisgarh High Court (Division Bench) allowed a public interest writ highlighting the custodial death of a Suhela, village Bhalesur man, a 26-year-old tribal agricultural labourer, at Police Station Suhela. Picked up on suspicion of petty theft of goods worth Rs. 972, he was illegally detained without arrest…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Justice R.S. Garg quashed the prosecution of a Bilaspur man (Crime No. 12/2000, PS Torwa) launched on an anonymous inland letter alleging rickshaw-pullers possessed Rs 5 lakh of found money. Head Constable raided on 22 June 2000, seized Rs…
Read the court recordThe Madhya Pradesh High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus petition by Jagatdhari for his son-in-law a Lakhanpur man, taken in a police jeep to Police Station Lakhanpur on 8 January 1994 and never seen alive since (Ambikapur is now in Chhattisgarh). The Court noted the SP's admission of no Rojnamcha entry…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 6 November 1996 sustained the 1971 dismissal of Sub-Inspector, formerly in charge of Pakhanjur police station in what is now Chhattisgarh. The Court recorded that while SHO he received illegal gratification from gambling organiser N.K. Ghosh and failed to prevent his common gambling house, a…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court confirmed the conviction of Sub-Inspector, officer-in-charge of Pulgaon police station, for obtaining illegal gratification of Rs.500 from complainant [name withheld], who had come to report his wife's disappearance and was detained until he paid. The Court held that both the trial court and the High…
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