India, Oct. 26 -- The Supreme Court has ordered a CBI inquiry and interim compensation of Rs 25 lakh for Lehra Bai, 35, whose husband died allegedly in police custody in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district nearly two years ago.

The court came down hard on the Chhattisgarh Director General of Police, Director General (Prisons) and Principal Secretary (Home) for their handling of the case, calling their actions "sacrilegious" and their claims "patently false and wholly reprehensible".

Lehra's husband, Shravan Suryavanshi Tamre, 34, was picked up by a team from Sipat police station outside his shop in Mohra village on January 18, 2024, and arrested under the Chhattisgarh Excise Act for allegedly possessing six litres of mahua liquor worth Rs ...