# Hansot Man vs State of Gujarat & Ors.

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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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288965/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2010-0001)

**Record:** CW-2010-0001 (compiler id CWC-0151); case GUJARA-004
**Title:** Hansot Man vs State of Gujarat & Ors.
**Court:** Gujarat High Court; judges: H. N. Devani
**Case number / citation:** Special Criminal Application No. 428 of 1998
**Judgment:** 2010-01-12 (2010, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1995-05-07 (1995)
**Place:** Bharuch, Gujarat; city town: Hansot; police station or unit: Hansot Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution of India Art 21; Constitution of India Art 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Hansot man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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 with the offences which prima facie appear to be non-cognizable offences. Thereafter, he was confined in the lockup with a view to teach him a lesson and not produced before the Judicial Magistrate immediately after his arrest despite the Court being available.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288965/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 27
**display title redacted:** Hansot Man vs State of Gujarat & Ors.
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '2010-01-12', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gujarat High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gujarat High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Special Criminal Application No. 428 of 1998', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288965/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** HC judgment verified: gross negligence in custodial medical care; Rs 1 lakh compensation to widow.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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