{ "record_id": "CW-2013-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0256", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rahuri Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Rahuri Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Ahilyanagar", "district_at_time": "Ahmednagar", "city_town": "Rahuri", "police_station_or_unit": "Rahuri Police Station / Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Aurangabad", "case_title": "Rahuri Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 964 of 2012", "citation": "2014 ALL MR (Cri) 31", "judges": [ "K.U. Chandiwal", "A.I.S. Cheema" ], "judgment_date": "2013-10-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2012-08-19", "incident_year": 2012, "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": [ "CrPC 151", "CrPC 107", "Constitution Art 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ashok Rajput", "rank": "Police Inspector", "unit": "Rahuri Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.41, "jev_p_culpable": 0.6, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ashok Rajput", "display": "Ashok Rajput (Police Inspector)" }, { "name": "Vikramsing Pawar", "rank": "Police Inspector", "unit": "Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.28, "jev_p_culpable": 0.71, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Vikramsing Pawar", "display": "Vikramsing Pawar (Police Inspector)" }, { "name": "L. A. Kamble", "rank": "Investigating Officer (B.No. 1096)", "unit": "Rahuri Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.32, "jev_p_culpable": 0.7, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "L. A. Kamble", "display": "L. A. Kamble (Investigating Officer (B.No. 1096))" }, { "name": "Dagadu Ujagare", "rank": "Court Constable / Police Head Constable", "unit": "Rahuri Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.47, "jev_p_culpable": 0.59, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Dagadu Ujagare", "display": "Dagadu Ujagare (Court Constable / Police Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "age": 47, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rahuri man, age 47" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/161582378/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad held that Rahuri and Local Crime Branch police illegally arrested and detained agriculturist a Rahuri man from 19 to 22 August 2012, dragging him from court under a sham Section 151 CrPC and Chapter VIII procedure without recording reasons, to torture, humiliate and teach him a lesson. Two inquiry reports supported the petitioner, and the court rejected the officers' belated apology and procedural justification. Holding the detention a gross violation of Article 21 that shocked the conscience of the court, it awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation payable by the State by 22 December 2013, with liberty to recover from the four guilty officers for their deliberate dereliction of duty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad held that Rahuri and Local Crime Branch police illegally arrested and detained agriculturist a Rahuri man from 19 to 22 August 2012, dragging him from court under a sham Section 151 CrPC and Chapter VIII procedure without recording reasons, to torture, humiliate and teach him a lesson. Two inquiry reports supported the petitioner, and the court rejected the officers' belated apology and procedural justification. Holding the detention a gross violation of Article 21 that shocked the conscience of the court, it awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation payable by the State by 22 December 2013, with liberty to recover from the four guilty officers for their deliberate dereliction of duty.", "court_quote": "Our conclusions are: there is apparent, patent incontrovertible violation of Article 21 of Constitution of India; it, indeed, shocks the conscience of the Court.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Sham s.151 detention from court premises; Rs 3 lakh award verified.", "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": "2013-10-22", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2014 ALL MR (Cri) 31", "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/161582378/", "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-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-039", "officers_named_public": 4, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }