# Korba Man v. State of Chhattisgarh and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 13 June 2025 in WPCR No. 503 of 2024, the Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Ramesh Sinha, Bibhu Datta Guru, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Station House Officer, Police Station Civil Line Rampur, Korba; Station House Officer staff, Police Station Darri, Korba, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: CG 12 CW 0001
- Case reference: WPCR No. 503 of 2024 / 2025:CGHC:23811-DB
- Court and date: Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Ramesh Sinha, Bibhu Datta Guru, JJ.), 13 June 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Station House Officer, Police Station Civil Line Rampur, Korba; Station House Officer staff, Police Station Darri, Korba
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The State being the employer of the employees on account of whose negligence the death of deceased took place, is liable to pay such compensation to the petitioners.” (at para 19)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/prema-haththel-v-state-of-chhattisgarh-13-june-2025-605349.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0008)

**Record:** CW-2025-0008 (compiler id CWC-0078); case WEST---CENTRAL-003; aliases: CWC-1457
**Title:** Korba Man v. State of Chhattisgarh and Others
**Court:** Chhattisgarh High Court; judges: Ramesh Sinha; Bibhu Datta Guru
**Case number / citation:** WPCR No. 503 of 2024 / 2025:CGHC:23811-DB
**Judgment:** 2025-06-13 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2024-01-01 (2024)
**Place:** Korba, Chhattisgarh; city town: Korba; police station or unit: Police Station Darri, Korba; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Station House Officer, Police Station Civil Line Rampur, Korba; Station House Officer staff, Police Station Darri, Korba (2 in record)
**Victims:** Korba man, age 27 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Replace tagline with State contention (fall on railway line) and its rejection on post-mortem/CCTV grounds. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The State being the employer of the employees on account of whose negligence the death of deceased took place, is liable to pay such compensation to the petitioners.

**Sources (6):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/prema-haththel-v-state-of-chhattisgarh-13-june-2025-605349.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/chattisgarh-high-court/chhattisgarh-high-court-orders-compensation-custodial-death-case-295245); [lawtrend.in](https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/13.06.2025-Chhattisgarh-High-Court-Awards-₹2-Lakh-Compensation-in-Custodial-Death-Case-of-Suraj-Haththel.pdf); [lawbeat.in](https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/custodial-death-chhattisgarh-hc-orders-2-lakh-compensation-to-mother-slams-state-for-rights-violation-1403749); [24law.in](https://24law.in/story/chhattisgarh-hc-slams-state-over-custodial-death-calls-injury-theory-a-fabrication-and-awards-compensation-for-breach-of-fundamental-rights); [lawtrend.in](https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/13.06.2025-Chhattisgarh-High-Court-Awards-%E2%82%B92-Lakh-Compensation-in-Custodial-Death-Case-of-Suraj-Haththel.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:** 19
**display title redacted:** Korba Man v. State of Chhattisgarh and Others
**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': \['court_quote', 'court_quote_para', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-06-13', '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': '2025:CGHC:23811-DB', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/prema-haththel-v-state-of-chhattisgarh-13-june-2025-605349.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/chattisgarh-high-court/chhattisgarh-high-court-orders-compensation-custodial-death-case-295245', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/13.06.2025-Chhattisgarh-High-Court-Awards-₹2-Lakh-Compensation-in-Custodial-Death-Case-of-Suraj-Haththel.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/custodial-death-chhattisgarh-hc-orders-2-lakh-compensation-to-mother-slams-state-for-rights-violation-1403749', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://24law.in/story/chhattisgarh-hc-slams-state-over-custodial-death-calls-injury-theory-a-fabrication-and-awards-compensation-for-breach-of-fundamental-rights', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/13.06.2025-Chhattisgarh-High-Court-Awards-%E2%82%B92-Lakh-Compensation-in-Custodial-Death-Case-of-Suraj-Haththel.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:** Chhattisgarh HC held State liable for a Korba man's custodial death; Rs 2 lakh compensation in 8 weeks.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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