# Takhatpur Police Head Constable and others v. State of Chhattisgarh

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## Report card

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.

- Register number: CG 10 CW 0003
- Case reference: Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001
- Court and date: Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Deepak Gupta, P. Sam Koshy, JJ.), 28 September 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time: Head Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur; Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 331 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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.” (at para 23)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 10 years.
- 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/99856664/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0007)

**Record:** CW-2016-0007 (compiler id CWC-0084); case CHHATT-014
**Title:** Takhatpur Police Head Constable and others v. State of Chhattisgarh
**Court:** Chhattisgarh High Court; judges: Deepak Gupta; P. Sam Koshy
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001
**Judgment:** 2016-09-28 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1992-01-06 (1992)
**Place:** Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh; city town: Takhatpur; police station or unit: PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 304 Part II; IPC 34; IPC 331
**Officers (gated display forms):** Head Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur; Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur (2 in record)
**Victims:** Takhatpur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 10 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/99856664/)
**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:** 23
**display title redacted:** Takhatpur Police Head Constable and others 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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2016-09-28', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Chhattisgarh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/99856664/', '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:** 4 criminal appeals verified on Indian Kanoon; 302 to 304-II (10 yr RI), s.331 upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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