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 "record_id": "CW-2002-0031",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1136",
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 "display_title": "Manegaon Woman vs [name withheld] & Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Manegaon Woman vs [name withheld] & Anr.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Bhandara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Manegaon (Bazar)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Veltur Police Station",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": "Nagpur",
 "case_title": "Manegaon Woman vs [name withheld] & Anr.",
 "case_number": "Criminal W.P. No. 103 of 2002",
 "citation": "(2002) 4 MhLj 865; (2003) BomCR (Cri) 338",
 "judges": [
  "V.M. Kanade, J.",
  "R.K. Batta, J."
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2002-09-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1998-03-05",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.226",
  "IPC 143"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Station Officer",
   "unit": "Veltur Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Station Officer, Veltur Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Manegaon woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 25000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1955757/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/803813/sharda-narayan-bhongade-appellant-hash-surendra-jagmohan-pali-and-another-respondent/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that Police Station Officer of Veltur falsely arrayed housewife Sharda Bhongade as an accused in a 1995 morcha case without any investigation, showing blatant disregard for the rule of law. The court found she suffered mental and physical agony, monetary loss and loss of self-esteem until her discharge by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kuhi, in clear violation of her Article 21 rights. It directed the State Government to pay her Rs. 25,000 compensation within four weeks of communication of the order, with liberty to recover half the amount from the delinquent officer. The petition began as a letter dated 6 February 2002 converted into a criminal writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that Police Station Officer of Veltur falsely arrayed housewife Sharda Bhongade as an accused in a 1995 morcha case without any investigation, showing blatant disregard for the rule of law. The court found she suffered mental and physical agony, monetary loss and loss of self-esteem until her discharge by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kuhi, in clear violation of her Article 21 rights. It directed the State Government to pay her Rs. 25,000 compensation within four weeks of communication of the order, with liberty to recover half the amount from the delinquent officer. The petition began as a letter dated 6 February 2002 converted into a criminal writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "The Police Officers are supposed to be the custodian and guardians of the citizens of this country. However, from the facts of this case, it appears that the respondent No. 1 instead of protecting the interest of the citizens has callously and negligently implicated the petitioner in the aforesaid criminal case.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held false implication without investigation; Rs 25,000 compensation.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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": "2002-09-06",
   "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 25,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2002) 4 MhLj 865; (2003) BomCR (Cri) 338",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1955757/",
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   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/803813/sharda-narayan-bhongade-appellant-hash-surendra-jagmohan-pali-and-another-respondent/",
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-20-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}