# Raipur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh

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## Report card

By judgment dated 21 November 2024 in WPC No. 1450 of 2013, the Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Amitendra Kishore Prasad, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: CG 04 CW 0002
- Case reference: WPC No. 1450 of 2013
- Court and date: Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Amitendra Kishore Prasad, J.), 21 November 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Central Jail, Raipur (then-SHO, Raipur found negligent in departmental enquiry))
- 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; Article 32 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “When the person is taking into custody, it is the paramount duty of the police to keep him safely. If there is any dereliction of that duty, then undoubtedly the onus will be on the police to show that there …” (at para 17)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/2960264/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2024-0020)

**Record:** CW-2024-0020 (compiler id CWC-0083); case CHHATT-013
**Title:** Raipur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh
**Court:** Chhattisgarh High Court; judges: Amitendra Kishore Prasad
**Case number / citation:** WPC No. 1450 of 2013
**Judgment:** 2024-11-21 (2024, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1999-03-22 (1999)
**Place:** Raipur, Chhattisgarh; city town: Raipur; police station or unit: Central Jail, Raipur (then-SHO, Raipur found negligent in departmental enquiry); 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; Constitution Art. 32
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (1 in record)
**Victims:** Raipur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

Replace tagline with State case (paras 5, 7: suicide by Salphas tablet, no atrocity, DE ongoing against SHO); attribute third-degree passage to the court (para 15). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> When the person is taking into custody, it is the paramount duty of the police to keep him safely. If there is any dereliction of that duty, then undoubtedly the onus will be on the police to show that there was no negligence on their part.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2960264/)
**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:** 17
**display title redacted:** Raipur 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2024-11-21', '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 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'WPC No. 1450 of 2013', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2960264/', '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:** Police-negligence finding + Rs 3L compensation verified; district corrected to Raipur (death in Central Jail Raipur; Mungeli was petitioners' residence).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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