{ "record_id": "CW-2013-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0246", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kandhar Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Kandhar Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Nanded", "district_at_time": "Nanded", "city_town": "Kandhar", "police_station_or_unit": "Sub-Jail Kandhar, Nanded (guard duty); PS Loha (Crime No. 90/2009)", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Aurangabad", "case_title": "Kandhar Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1077 of 2012", "citation": "(2013) 5 ABR 375; (2013) 3 BomCR(Cri) 601; (2013) ALLMR(Cri) 3038", "judges": [ "Naresh H. Patil", "A.I.S. Cheema" ], "judgment_date": "2013-07-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2011-02-02", "incident_year": 2011, "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": [ "Constitution Art 226", "Constitution Art 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Pandit Manikrao Marwade", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Sub-Jail Kandhar", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_openrouter:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.2, "jev_p_culpable": 0.65, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Pandit Manikrao Marwade", "display": "Pandit Manikrao Marwade (Police Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 21, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kandhar man, age 21" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 450000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/79920666/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/818792/kewalbai-appellant-hash-the-state-of-maharashtra-superintendent-of-police-superintendent-of-jail/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Undertrial a Kandhar man (21, Crime No. 90/2009, PS Loha) was shot dead in the Sub-Jail Kandhar lock-up on the night of 2.2.2011 by on-duty Police Constable with his.303 service rifle; Marwade then shot himself dead and an 'A' abetted summary was granted. The State admitted the incident but called it an individual act on grave provocation outside vicarious liability, blaming a Kandhar man's arrogance. The Court rejected that defence, holding the State failed to post sufficient guards or ensure inmate safety and must be held responsible for the custodial death, and directed Rs 4,50,000 compensation with 8% interest from 12.7.2012 plus Rs 10,000 costs, deposited with the District Judge, Nanded (inclusive of the GR 9.3.2012 amount). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Undertrial a Kandhar man (21, Crime No. 90/2009, PS Loha) was shot dead in the Sub-Jail Kandhar lock-up on the night of 2.2.2011 by on-duty Police Constable with his.303 service rifle; Marwade then shot himself dead and an 'A' abetted summary was granted. The State admitted the incident but called it an individual act on grave provocation outside vicarious liability, blaming a Kandhar man's arrogance. The Court rejected that defence, holding the State failed to post sufficient guards or ensure inmate safety and must be held responsible for the custodial death, and directed Rs 4,50,000 compensation with 8% interest from 12.7.2012 plus Rs 10,000 costs, deposited with the District Judge, Nanded (inclusive of the GR 9.3.2012 amount).", "court_quote": "The State is liable for contravention of fundamental rights of the victim. No sovereign immunity can be claimed by Respondents. The act of constable Pandit Manikrao Marwade was clearly illegal and a Kandhar man became victim of the same.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Full judgment text verified via CourtKutchehry mirror (Crl WP 1077/2012, Aurangabad Bench, 8.7.2013, JJ Naresh Patil and A.I.S. Cheema); primary indiankanoon URL rate-limited (HTTP 429). State admitted the shooting; vicarious liability upheld, Rs 4,50,000 plus 8% interest from 12.7.2012 plus Rs 10,000 costs awarded. No prosecution possible as constable Marwade shot himself dead ('A' abetted summary granted 30.8.2011).", "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": "2013-07-08", "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 450,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2013) 5 ABR 375; (2013) 3 BomCR(Cri) 601; (2013) ALLMR(Cri) 3038", "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/79920666/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/818792/kewalbai-appellant-hash-the-state-of-maharashtra-superintendent-of-police-superintendent-of-jail/", "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-08", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "MAHARA-004", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }