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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "V. B. M. vs The State of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "V. B. M. vs The State of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Pune",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Rahuri",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Hinjewadi / Gangapur / Lonikand / Sonai Police Stations",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "bench": "Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "V. B. M. vs The State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 651 of 2018",
 "citation": "AIR Online 2019 Bom 1968",
 "judges": [
  "T.V. Nalawade",
  "K.K. Sonawane"
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 "judgment_date": "2019-09-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2016-11-26",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "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": [
  "IPC 394"
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   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Hinjewadi City Police Station, Pune",
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   "display": "Police Inspector, Hinjewadi City Police Station, Pune"
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   "display": "Police Inspector, Gangapur Police Station, Aurangabad"
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   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Lonikand Police Station, Pune Rural",
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   "display": "Police Inspector, Lonikand Police Station, Pune Rural"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Sonai Police Station, Ahmednagar",
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   "display": "Police Inspector, Sonai Police Station, Ahmednagar"
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rahuri boy, age 15",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
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  {
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 15-year-old boy"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/5856489/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. The petitioner, born 3 January 2001 and aged about 15 when robbery cases under Section 394 IPC were registered and when arrested on 26 November 2016, was shown by police as aged 20, remanded to police and magisterial custody on false information, and kept in Yerwada Central Jail as an adult undertrial for 8 months and 25 days across cases in Pune, Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts. All four police stations filed replies. The Aurangabad Bench held the detention in police and magisterial custody illegal, allowed the petition, and directed Rs. 50,000 compensation within 45 days (8% interest on default). It ordered the police-custody-remand and jail records erased so they are never used against the petitioner in future. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The petitioner, born 3 January 2001 and aged about 15 when robbery cases under Section 394 IPC were registered and when arrested on 26 November 2016, was shown by police as aged 20, remanded to police and magisterial custody on false information, and kept in Yerwada Central Jail as an adult undertrial for 8 months and 25 days across cases in Pune, Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts. All four police stations filed replies. The Aurangabad Bench held the detention in police and magisterial custody illegal, allowed the petition, and directed Rs. 50,000 compensation within 45 days (8% interest on default). It ordered the police-custody-remand and jail records erased so they are never used against the petitioner in future.",
 "court_quote": "His age was shown as 20 years by the police. It is contended that by giving false information, PCR and MCR was obtained against him.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; minor detained 8+ months as adult on fabricated age, Rs. 50,000 plus record erasure.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2019-09-30",
   "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 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR Online 2019 Bom 1968",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": [
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   ]
  }
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP4-010",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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