# Janjgir Man and Another v. State of C.G.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 15 February 2012 in Writ Petition No. 888 of 2001, the Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Satish K. Agnihotri, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Police personnel; Police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).

- Register number: CG 11 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Petition No. 888 of 2001 / (2012) 02 CHH CK 0077
- Court and date: Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Satish K. Agnihotri, J.), 15 February 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel; Police personnel
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “it would be just and proper to award a sum of Rs. 1,50,000/- in addition to the amount already awarded by the Commission within a period of three months.” (at para 11)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/898431/motimbai-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-cg-and-others-respondent/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0004)

**Record:** CW-2012-0004 (compiler id CWC-0090); case CHHATT-020
**Title:** Janjgir Man and Another v. State of C.G.
**Court:** Chhattisgarh High Court; judges: Satish K. Agnihotri
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition No. 888 of 2001 / (2012) 02 CHH CK 0077
**Judgment:** 2012-02-15 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1999-09-11 (1999)
**Place:** Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh; city town: Janjgir; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel; Police personnel (2 in record)
**Victims:** Janjgir man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The 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 had already found custodial death, awarded Rs 50,000 recoverable from respondents 5 and 6, and recommended their suspension and enquiry, in which they were punished. Following Nilabati Behera and related precedents, the Court held the police deprived the deceased of personal liberty and allowed the petition with liberty to claim more in private law. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> it would be just and proper to award a sum of Rs. 1,50,000/- in addition to the amount already awarded by the Commission within a period of three months.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/898431/motimbai-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-cg-and-others-respondent/); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5608fd97e4b014971114e816)
**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:** 11
**display title redacted:** Janjgir Man and Another v. State of C.G.
**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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2012-02-15', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Chhattisgarh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Chhattisgarh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2012) 02 CHH CK 0077', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/898431/motimbai-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-cg-and-others-respondent/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5608fd97e4b014971114e816', '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:** Transit-custody beating death; Rs 1.5L additional over SHRC award, erring officers already punished.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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