{ "record_id": "CW-2001-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0764", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0235" ], "display_title": "Akola Man vs Superintendent of Police, Akola and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Akola Man vs Superintendent of Police, Akola and Ors.", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Akola", "district_at_time": "Akola", "city_town": "Akola", "police_station_or_unit": "Ramdaspeth Police Station, Akola", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Nagpur", "case_title": "Akola Man vs Superintendent of Police, Akola and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 277 of 2000", "citation": "(2002) ACJ 1307; (2002) CriLJ 914; (2002) 1 MhLJ 273; (2002) BomCR(Cri) 371", "judges": [ "J.N. Patel", "S.K. Shah" ], "judgment_date": "2001-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1999-09-30", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Ramdaspeth Police Station, Akola", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Ramdaspeth Police Station, Akola" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Inspector", "unit": "Ramdaspeth Police Station, Akola", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Inspector, Ramdaspeth Police Station, Akola" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 36, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Akola man, age 36" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 175000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33124/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/921838/fattuji-dajiba-gedam-appellant-hash-superintendent-of-police-akola-and-others-respondent/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/118914/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. An Akola man, arrested on 29.9.1999 in Crime No. 205/1999, was found dead in the Ramdaspeth police lock-up on the morning of 30.9.1999; the post-mortem recorded 21 ante-mortem injuries (20 contusions, one abrasion) with death by syncope from multiple injuries. The Court rejected the police story blaming the watchmen and the medical officer, holding an Akola man died a homicidal death in police custody from brutal custodial torture and that the on-duty officers were responsible, the State having failed to explain the injuries or comply with the D.K. Basu guidelines. It directed the State to deposit Rs 1,75,000 compensation (Rs 75,000 for daughter [name withheld], Rs 50,000 each for sons and Aakash, via fixed deposits) plus Rs 5,000 costs, ordered a DIG-or-above investigation with disciplinary proceedings and prosecution of all officers on duty from arrest till death, allowed recovery from those found responsible, and ordered contempt show-cause particulars. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "An Akola man, arrested on 29.9.1999 in Crime No. 205/1999, was found dead in the Ramdaspeth police lock-up on the morning of 30.9.1999; the post-mortem recorded 21 ante-mortem injuries (20 contusions, one abrasion) with death by syncope from multiple injuries. The Court rejected the police story blaming the watchmen and the medical officer, holding an Akola man died a homicidal death in police custody from brutal custodial torture and that the on-duty officers were responsible, the State having failed to explain the injuries or comply with the D.K. Basu guidelines. It directed the State to deposit Rs 1,75,000 compensation (Rs 75,000 for daughter [name withheld], Rs 50,000 each for sons and Aakash, via fixed deposits) plus Rs 5,000 costs, ordered a DIG-or-above investigation with disciplinary proceedings and prosecution of all officers on duty from arrest till death, allowed recovery from those found responsible, and ordered contempt show-cause particulars.", "court_quote": "only inference which the Court can draw is that the police officers who were at the relevant time on duty in the police station are responsible for the custodial violence meted out to the deceased [name withheld]", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "DUPLICATE of CWC-0144: same judgment (Criminal WP 277/2000, Bombay HC, 17.9.2001, JJ J.N. Patel and S.K. Shah) under a different indiankanoon doc id (33124 vs 118914). Primary URL rate-limited (HTTP 429); full text verified via CourtKutchehry mirror. Verdict on merits: accept — custodial death by torture held proved, Rs 1,75,000 compensation plus Rs 5,000 costs, DIG-or-above investigation with disciplinary proceedings and prosecution directed, contempt show-cause ordered. Incident date corrected to death date 1999-09-30 (arrest 29-09-1999).", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2001-09-17", "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 175,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2002) ACJ 1307; (2002) CriLJ 914; (2002) 1 MhLJ 273; (2002) BomCR(Cri) 371", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33124/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/921838/fattuji-dajiba-gedam-appellant-hash-superintendent-of-police-akola-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/118914/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-08", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MAHARA-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }