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 "record_id": "CW-2019-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0255",
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 "display_title": "Deoli Man and Another vs State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Deoli Man and Another vs State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Wardha",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Deoli",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Deoli",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": "Nagpur",
 "case_title": "Deoli Man and Another vs State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 183/2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Z.A. Haq",
  "M.G. Giratkar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2019-12-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2014-02-05",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "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 s.151(1)",
  "CrPC Chapter VIII",
  "Constitution of India Art. 21",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Dhananjay Sayare",
   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Police Station Deoli, District Wardha",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "yes",
   "jev_risk": 0.14,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.85,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Dhananjay Sayare",
   "display": "Dhananjay Sayare (Police Inspector)"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Deoli, District Wardha",
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   "ledger_role": "named_only",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_risk": 0.94,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.11,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Police Constable, Police Station Deoli, District Wardha"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 57,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Deoli man, age 57"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Deoli man, age 26"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-368892.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/depriving-person-liberty-article-21-whims-of-the-police-officer-bombay-hc-fines-cop-rs1-lakh-for-illegal-detention-151468",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2020/01/08/bom-hc-police-inspector-to-pay-rs-1-lakh-compensation-to-petitioners-for-high-handed-action-and-illegal-detention-under-s-151-1-crpc/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/71877036/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Deoli man and his son Dr. Indraprasad Futane, parties to a temple-trust dispute in Deoli, were detained at Deoli police station from 5:00 AM to 12:00 PM on 5 February 2014 under Section 151(1) CrPC before being taken to an Executive Magistrate. The Bombay High Court found that the police officer had no knowledge of any design to commit a cognizable offence and that earlier complaints were non-cognizable, holding the Section 151(1) justification misleading and a cover-up for illegal and motivated detention. Drawing an adverse inference for the non-production and loss of official records, the High Court declared the detention illegal, quashed the Chapter VIII CrPC proceedings, ordered Police Inspector Dhananjay Sayare to pay compensation of Rs 1 lakh to each petitioner personally along with Rs 10,000 costs each, and directed that an entry of the judgment be recorded in the officer's service book. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Deoli man and his son Dr. Indraprasad Futane, parties to a temple-trust dispute in Deoli, were detained at Deoli police station from 5:00 AM to 12:00 PM on 5 February 2014 under Section 151(1) CrPC before being taken to an Executive Magistrate. The Bombay High Court found that the police officer had no knowledge of any design to commit a cognizable offence and that earlier complaints were non-cognizable, holding the Section 151(1) justification misleading and a cover-up for illegal and motivated detention. Drawing an adverse inference for the non-production and loss of official records, the High Court declared the detention illegal, quashed the Chapter VIII CrPC proceedings, ordered Police Inspector Dhananjay Sayare to pay compensation of Rs 1 lakh to each petitioner personally along with Rs 10,000 costs each, and directed that an entry of the judgment be recorded in the officer's service book.",
 "court_quote": "Depriving a person of his liberty guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India cannot be left to the whims and wishes of the police officer, and if it is permitted it would be conferring arbitrary and unbridled powers on the police officers / authorities.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court held preventive detention under s.151(1) CrPC illegal, quashed Chapter VIII CrPC proceedings, ordered PI Dhananjay Sayare to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation per petitioner personally and entered judgment in his service book.",
 "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"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2019-12-17",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 183/2014",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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)",
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   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2020/01/08/bom-hc-police-inspector-to-pay-rs-1-lakh-compensation-to-petitioners-for-high-handed-action-and-illegal-detention-under-s-151-1-crpc/",
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