# Beed Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 2 March 2023 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1464 of 2015, the Bombay High Court (Coram: Anuja Prabhudessai, R.M. Joshi, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed; Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed; Jail staff, Beed District Jail, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).

- Register number: MH 23 CW 0006
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 1464 of 2015 / 2023 SCC OnLine Bom 562
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: Anuja Prabhudessai, R.M. Joshi, JJ.), 2 March 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed; Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed; Jail staff, Beed District Jail
- 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): “there has been total negligence and lapse on the part of the jail authorities in providing adequate, effective and proper medical treatment and on the part of the police guard on duty who declined to shift the deceased \[name withheld\] …” (at para 11)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).
- 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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-3wk-1477892.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0004)

**Record:** CW-2023-0004 (compiler id CWC-0254); case MAHARA-013
**Title:** Beed Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.
**Court:** Bombay High Court; bench: Aurangabad; judges: Anuja Prabhudessai; R.M. Joshi
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 1464 of 2015 / 2023 SCC OnLine Bom 562
**Judgment:** 2023-03-02 (2023, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2012-02-27 (2012)
**Place:** Beed, Maharashtra; city town: Beed; police station or unit: Police guard on duty, Government Hospital, Beed / Beed District Jail; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art 21; Constitution Art 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed; Police Guard, Police guard on duty, Government Hospital Beed; Jail staff, Beed District Jail (1 in record)
**Victims:** Beed man, age 32 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held there was total negligence by the Beed jail authorities and the on-duty police guard in denying medical care to 32-year-old undertrial a Beed man, who complained of chest pain from early February 2012 but was shifted to hospital only on 23-02-2012 and died on 27-02-2012. The court found the police guard declined to shift him to Government Medical College, Aurangabad despite medical advice, violating his Article 21 right to health. Rejecting the State's denial of negligence, it awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to the parents, widow and two minor children, payable within four weeks (6% interest on default), with liberty to recover from the negligent officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> there has been total negligence and lapse on the part of the jail authorities in providing adequate, effective and proper medical treatment and on the part of the police guard on duty who declined to shift the deceased \[name withheld\] to Government Medical College, Aurangabad which has resulted in his death.

**Sources (3):** [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-3wk-1477892.pdf); [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-hc-rs-10-lakh-compensation-undertrial-prisoner-1466333); [scconline.com](https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/03/14/deceased-denied-medical-treatment-in-jail-bombay-hc-awards-compensation-legal-research-legal-news-updates/)
**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:** Beed Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.
**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': '2023-03-02', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Bombay High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2023 SCC OnLine Bom 562', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-3wk-1477892.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-hc-rs-10-lakh-compensation-undertrial-prisoner-1466333', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/03/14/deceased-denied-medical-treatment-in-jail-bombay-hc-awards-compensation-legal-research-legal-news-updates/', '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:** Bombay HC (Aurangabad) held jail + police-guard negligence caused undertrial's death; Rs 10L awarded.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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