{ "record_id": "CW-2012-0038", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0772", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Niraj Mumbai Woman and Others vs [name withheld] and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Niraj Mumbai Woman and Others vs [name withheld] and Others", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Mumbai City", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mumbai", "police_station_or_unit": "Navghar Police Station, Mulund", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Niraj Mumbai Woman and Others vs [name withheld] and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 856 of 2012", "citation": "2013 (2) Bom CR (Cri) 260", "judges": [ "A. S. Oka", "S. S. Shinde" ], "judgment_date": "2012-12-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2011-12-02", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 22", "Constitution Art. 226", "CrPC s.57", "CrPC s.41B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Navghar Police Station, Mumbai", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Navghar Police Station, Mumbai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Senior Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Navghar Police Station, Mumbai", "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": "Senior Inspector, Navghar Police Station, Mumbai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Navghar Police Station, Mumbai (Buckle No. 97015)", "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 Constable, Navghar Police Station, Mumbai (Buckle No. 97015)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Navghar Police Station, Mumbai (Buckle No. 8040305)", "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 Constable, Navghar Police Station, Mumbai (Buckle No. 8040305)" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "age": 66, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mumbai man, age 66" }, { "age": 62, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mumbai woman, age 62" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/175266892/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5608fcb3e4b014971114c81b" ], "summary": "The Bombay High Court held that PSI of Navghar Police Station took two senior citizens, a Mumbai man (66) and a Mumbai woman (62) a Mumbai man, into custody at Aurangabad on the night of 2 December 2011 in a s.498A case and kept them detained without showing arrest until 4 December 2011, about 35 hours 40 minutes, without an arrest memo or production before the nearest magistrate. The Court found gross violations of Articles 21 and 22 and the D.K. Basu directions, a violation that shocks the conscience of the Court. It directed the State to pay Rs 2,50,000 each with 8% interest plus Rs 25,000 costs, ordered a Joint/Additional Commissioner inquiry within three months to fix responsibility, and left recovery and departmental action open. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court held that PSI of Navghar Police Station took two senior citizens, a Mumbai man (66) and a Mumbai woman (62) a Mumbai man, into custody at Aurangabad on the night of 2 December 2011 in a s.498A case and kept them detained without showing arrest until 4 December 2011, about 35 hours 40 minutes, without an arrest memo or production before the nearest magistrate. The Court found gross violations of Articles 21 and 22 and the D.K. Basu directions, a violation that shocks the conscience of the Court. It directed the State to pay Rs 2,50,000 each with 8% interest plus Rs 25,000 costs, ordered a Joint/Additional Commissioner inquiry within three months to fix responsibility, and left recovery and departmental action open.", "court_quote": "This case of blatant violation of human rights shocks the conscience of the Court.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "~36-hour detention of elderly couple without arrest memo; Rs 2.5L each + inquiry ordered.", "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": "2012-12-21", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2013 (2) Bom CR (Cri) 260", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/175266892/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5608fcb3e4b014971114c81b", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-57" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-10-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }