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 "display_title": "Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra",
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 "incident_date": "2003-01-06",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai man, age 27"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/29244602/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/from-rs-3-lakh-to-rs-20-lakh-court-raises-compensation-for-custody-death-victims-mother/",
  "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/ghatkopar-custodial-death-case-bombay-high-court-directs-framing-murder-charges-against-police-officers"
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 "summary": "A Mumbai man, 27, arrested in December 2002 in the Ghatkopar bus-blast case, died on 6-1-2003 at Ghatkopar Police Station; police claimed he escaped en route to Aurangabad, but a CID probe found custodial torture and death and trial began against four policemen. His mother [name withheld]'s writ was allowed with the court holding the fundamental rights of a Mumbai man and his mother violated in custody and enhancing compensation from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 20 lakh, reported as then the highest custodial-death award in India. The court refused the prayers for sanction and suspension against other officers and stressed its observations must not influence the pending murder trial.",
 "summary_verified": "A Mumbai man, 27, arrested in December 2002 in the Ghatkopar bus-blast case, died on 6-1-2003 at Ghatkopar Police Station; police claimed he escaped en route to Aurangabad, but a CID probe found custodial torture and death and trial began against four policemen. His mother [name withheld]'s writ was allowed with the court holding the fundamental rights of a Mumbai man and his mother violated in custody and enhancing compensation from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 20 lakh, reported as then the highest custodial-death award in India. The court refused the prayers for sanction and suspension against other officers and stressed its observations must not influence the pending murder trial.",
 "court_quote": "As aforesaid, it is a case of violation of fundamental rights of a Mumbai man, who mysteriously disappeared and presumably died, whilst in police custody. This position is virtually accepted in the criminal action initiated by the State (presently against respondent Nos. 5 to 8).",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC raised custodial-death compensation from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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   "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"
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   "date": "2012-04-10",
   "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 2,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1017 of 2005",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "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",
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