{ "record_id": "CW-2023-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0254", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Beed Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Beed Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Beed", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Beed", "police_station_or_unit": "Police guard on duty, Government Hospital, Beed / Beed District Jail", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Aurangabad", "case_title": "Beed Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1464 of 2015", "citation": "2023 SCC OnLine Bom 562", "judges": [ "Anuja Prabhudessai", "R.M. Joshi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2012-02-27", "incident_year": 2012, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 21", "Constitution Art 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Guard", "unit": "Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.79, "jev_p_culpable": 0.43, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Guard", "unit": "Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Jail staff", "unit": "Beed District Jail", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Jail staff, Beed District Jail" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 32, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Beed man, age 32" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-3wk-1477892.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-hc-rs-10-lakh-compensation-undertrial-prisoner-1466333", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/03/14/deceased-denied-medical-treatment-in-jail-bombay-hc-awards-compensation-legal-research-legal-news-updates/" ], "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held there was total negligence by the Beed jail authorities and the on-duty police guard in denying medical care to 32-year-old undertrial a Beed man, who complained of chest pain from early February 2012 but was shifted to hospital only on 23-02-2012 and died on 27-02-2012. The court found the police guard declined to shift him to Government Medical College, Aurangabad despite medical advice, violating his Article 21 right to health. Rejecting the State's denial of negligence, it awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to the parents, widow and two minor children, payable within four weeks (6% interest on default), with liberty to recover from the negligent officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held there was total negligence by the Beed jail authorities and the on-duty police guard in denying medical care to 32-year-old undertrial a Beed man, who complained of chest pain from early February 2012 but was shifted to hospital only on 23-02-2012 and died on 27-02-2012. The court found the police guard declined to shift him to Government Medical College, Aurangabad despite medical advice, violating his Article 21 right to health. Rejecting the State's denial of negligence, it awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to the parents, widow and two minor children, payable within four weeks (6% interest on default), with liberty to recover from the negligent officers.", "court_quote": "there has been total negligence and lapse on the part of the jail authorities in providing adequate, effective and proper medical treatment and on the part of the police guard on duty who declined to shift the deceased [name withheld] to Government Medical College, Aurangabad which has resulted in his death.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Bombay HC (Aurangabad) held jail + police-guard negligence caused undertrial's death; Rs 10L awarded.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial death", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2023-03-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Bombay High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 SCC OnLine Bom 562", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-3wk-1477892.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-hc-rs-10-lakh-compensation-undertrial-prisoner-1466333", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/03/14/deceased-denied-medical-treatment-in-jail-bombay-hc-awards-compensation-legal-research-legal-news-updates/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "MAHARA-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }