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   "age": 16,
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  {
   "age": 16,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 500000,
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 "primary_source_url": "https://hindi.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-385931.pdf",
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  "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=310202808300&Title=ASHOK-KONDAJI-ROKADE-Vs.-STATE-OF-MAHARASHTRA",
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that about-16-year-old a 16-year-old boy, picked up on suspicion of pick-pocketing at the Sai temple on 31-03-2016 and put in the Shirdi police lock-up without age enquiry, arrest panchnama or intimation to parents, died in the lock-up the same day. The court concluded it was a case of custodial death at the hands of Shirdi police officials in violation of Article 21 and the D.K. Basu safeguards, rejecting the State's denial of liability. It left the homicidal-versus-suicidal question and the Section 302 prayer to the trial court in Crime 235/2016 (charge-sheet filed against five officers). The court directed the State to deposit Rs 5 lakh ex gratia compensation in court within 45 days (8% interest on default) for equal division between the parents, with liberty to recover from the erring officials once liability is fastened. The officers were charge-sheeted in Crime No. 235 of 2016 at Shirdi Police Station; the court left individual guilt and the homicidal-versus-suicidal question to the trial, recording no finding against any individual. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that about-16-year-old Kiran Rokade, picked up on suspicion of pick-pocketing at the Sai temple on 31-03-2016 and put in the Shirdi police lock-up without age enquiry, arrest panchnama or intimation to parents, died in the lock-up the same day. The court concluded it was a case of custodial death at the hands of Shirdi police officials in violation of Article 21 and the D.K. Basu safeguards, rejecting the State's denial of liability. It left the homicidal-versus-suicidal question and the Section 302 prayer to the trial court in Crime 235/2016 (charge-sheet filed against five officers). The court directed the State to deposit Rs 5 lakh ex gratia compensation in court within 45 days (8% interest on default) for equal division between the parents, with liberty to recover from the erring officials once liability is fastened.",
 "court_quote": "No enquiry was conducted about the age of [a 16-year-old boy], whether he was juvenile and straightway put up him in the lock up which unfortunately resulted into his custodial death.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
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 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC (Aurangabad) held custodial death at Shirdi PS; Rs 5L ex gratia to parents.",
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   "date": "2020-11-26",
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