{ "record_id": "CW-2019-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0734", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ahmednagar Man v. State of Maharashtra", "display_title_redacted": "Ahmednagar Man v. State of Maharashtra", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Ahilyanagar", "district_at_time": "Ahmednagar", "city_town": "Ahmednagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Ahmednagar", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Aurangabad", "case_title": "Ahmednagar Man v. State of Maharashtra", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 906 of 2018", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T.V. Nalawade", "K.K. Sonawane" ], "judgment_date": "2019-07-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2014-10-26", "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.41", "CrPC s.50", "CrPC s.167", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Vishal L. Sanas", "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Ahmednagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.37, "jev_p_culpable": 0.68, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Vishal L. Sanas", "display": "Vishal L. Sanas (Police Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 64, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ahmednagar man, age 64" }, { "name": null, "age": 54, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Ahmednagar woman, age 54" }, { "name": null, "age": 32, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Ahmednagar woman, age 32" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/31595477/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Three members of an advocate family were arrested on 26 October 2014 in bailable offences and kept in the Kotwali lockup before being remanded to police custody till 29 October, with bail refused. The Additional Sessions Judge had already held in revision that the arrest, detention and remand order were illegal. The High Court agreed, holding the circumstances showed apparent malice on the part of PSI. It allowed the petition and directed total compensation of Rs 5 lakh to all petitioners together within 45 days, leaving the State free to recover the amount from the officer after due procedure. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Three members of an advocate family were arrested on 26 October 2014 in bailable offences and kept in the Kotwali lockup before being remanded to police custody till 29 October, with bail refused. The Additional Sessions Judge had already held in revision that the arrest, detention and remand order were illegal. The High Court agreed, holding the circumstances showed apparent malice on the part of PSI. It allowed the petition and directed total compensation of Rs 5 lakh to all petitioners together within 45 days, leaving the State free to recover the amount from the officer after due procedure.", "court_quote": "The aforesaid circumstances show that there was apparent malice.", "court_quote_para": "33", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC found arrest/detention illegal with apparent malice, awarded Rs 5 lakh; matches outcome.", "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": "2019-07-11", "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": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 906 of 2018", "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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/31595477/", "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-54" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-093", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }