{ "record_id": "CW-2023-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0250", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1427" ], "display_title": "Manegaon, Taluka Madha Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Manegaon, Taluka Madha Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Solapur", "district_at_time": "Solapur", "city_town": "Manegaon, Taluka Madha", "police_station_or_unit": "Manegaon Outpost, Police Station Madha, Solapur", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Aurangabad", "case_title": "Manegaon, Taluka Madha Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1647 of 2019", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Vibha Kankanwadi", "Abhay S. Waghwase" ], "judgment_date": "2023-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2018-11-04", "incident_year": 2018, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302 r/w 34", "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Dashrath Vishwanath Kumbhar", "rank": "Police Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Manegaon Outpost, Madha PS, Solapur", "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": 0.62, "jev_p_culpable": 0.65, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Dashrath Vishwanath Kumbhar", "display": "Dashrath Vishwanath Kumbhar (Police Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Deepak Raman Kshirsagar", "rank": "Police Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Manegaon Outpost, Madha PS, Solapur", "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": 0.65, "jev_p_culpable": 0.62, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Deepak Raman Kshirsagar", "display": "Deepak Raman Kshirsagar (Police Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 23, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Manegaon, Taluka Madha man, age 23" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1529600, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/161546163/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/injuries-need-not-occur-inside-police-station-for-custodial-death-bombay-high-court-grants-15-lakh-to-victims-mother-in-police-brutality-case-219553", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/custodial-death-power-of-police-to-regulate-crime-not-unfettered-cant-treat-citizens-in-inhuman-manner-bombay-high-court", "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-22-454895.pdf" ], "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that the death of 23-year-old Pradip Kute on 04-11-2018 was a homicidal custodial death at the hands of two head constables of the Manegaon outpost, who intercepted his sugarcane tractor over a loudly played tape recorder and beat him with sticks, kicks and fists. Relying on the Section 176(1)(a) CrPC magisterial inquiry report, 43 ante-mortem injuries in the post-mortem, and consistent eyewitnesses, the court rejected the defence of brain disease and post-mortem injuries. It awarded Rs 15,29,600 compensation to the mother (Rs 13,29,600 dependency plus Rs 2,00,000 for police atrocities), payable by the State within two months with 6% default interest and recoverable from the two constables, with Rs 10 lakh to be invested for five years; the criminal trial (Crime No. 218/2018) was noted as pending.", "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that the death of 23-year-old Pradip Kute on 04-11-2018 was a homicidal custodial death at the hands of two head constables of the Manegaon outpost, who intercepted his sugarcane tractor over a loudly played tape recorder and beat him with sticks, kicks and fists. Relying on the Section 176(1)(a) CrPC magisterial inquiry report, 43 ante-mortem injuries in the post-mortem, and consistent eyewitnesses, the court rejected the defence of brain disease and post-mortem injuries. It awarded Rs 15,29,600 compensation to the mother (Rs 13,29,600 dependency plus Rs 2,00,000 for police atrocities), payable by the State within two months with 6% default interest and recoverable from the two constables, with Rs 10 lakh to be invested for five years; the criminal trial (Crime No. 218/2018) was noted as pending.", "court_quote": "It will be open to the State to recover the amount, so paid to the petitioner from respondent Nos.4 and 5, as they have been revealed to be the persons responsible for the death of a Manegaon, Taluka Madha man", "court_quote_para": "13 (order cl. 4)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment text verified. Accused are police; adverse finding with compensation. Petitioner resides in Osmanabad district but incident/Out Post are in Solapur, so district is Solapur. Victim's wife [name withheld] died 21-06-2020 per judgment.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2023-01-18", "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 1,529,600.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1647 of 2019", "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/161546163/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/injuries-need-not-occur-inside-police-station-for-custodial-death-bombay-high-court-grants-15-lakh-to-victims-mother-in-police-brutality-case-219553", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/custodial-death-power-of-police-to-regulate-crime-not-unfettered-cant-treat-citizens-in-inhuman-manner-bombay-high-court", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-22-454895.pdf", "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-08", "chunk-39", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "MAHARA-009", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }