The 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 route to hospital. The trial court convicted two policemen and two civilians for murder. The Division Bench sustained the conviction but altered it from Section 302 to Section 304 Part II/34 IPC with ten years' rigorous imprisonment each, upheld the Section 331 IPC conviction for grievous hurt to extort confession, and set aside Section 149. The court relied on D.K. Basu in condemning the custodial torture; the incident predates Chhattisgarh's formation, when the area was in Madhya Pradesh. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
This page documents a court-adjudicated case from the judgment and cited sources below. Findings are attributed to the court; this record does not add findings of its own.
How verification works →By judgment dated 28 September 2016 in Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001, the Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Deepak Gupta, P. Sam Koshy, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Head Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur; Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur.
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The Chhattisgarh High Court judgment dated 28 September 2016 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Holding not recorded separately.
“We are dealing with a case where protectors and enforcers of law have taken the law into their own hands and they alongwith complainant party have beaten a tribal to death only on the suspicion of theft of some money.” (para 23)
The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment.
The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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