# Bilaspur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 April 2013 in Writ Petition (C) No. 5268 of 2007, 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 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: CG 10 CW 0002
- Case reference: Writ Petition (C) No. 5268 of 2007
- Court and date: Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Satish K. Agnihotri, J.), 10 April 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel; Police personnel
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract): “it would be just and proper to award a sum of Rs.2,00,000/-. The respondent/State is directed to pay the said amount to the petitioner within a period of three months.” (at para 10)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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://www.indianemployees.com/uploads/judgments/082015/1439808645-10ap13.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2013-0005)

**Record:** CW-2013-0005 (compiler id CWC-0091); case CHHATT-021
**Title:** Bilaspur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh
**Court:** Chhattisgarh High Court; judges: Satish K. Agnihotri
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition (C) No. 5268 of 2007
**Judgment:** 2013-04-10 (2013, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2005-01-01 (2005)
**Place:** Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh; city town: Bilaspur; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Arms Act s.25
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel; Police personnel (2 in record)
**Victims:** Bilaspur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The 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 hit by an untraced truck, while the widow alleged assault. The Court held it indisputable that a Bilaspur man died in police custody and that his personal liberty was deprived by the police. It allowed the petition, directing payment within three months 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.2,00,000/-. The respondent/State is directed to pay the said amount to the petitioner within a period of three months.

**Sources (1):** [indianemployees.com](https://www.indianemployees.com/uploads/judgments/082015/1439808645-10ap13.pdf)
**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:** 10
**display title redacted:** Bilaspur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh
**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': '2013-04-10', '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 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Writ Petition (C) No. 5268 of 2007', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.indianemployees.com/uploads/judgments/082015/1439808645-10ap13.pdf', '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:** Escort-custody death with untraced-truck cover story rejected; Rs 2L compensation allowed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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