{ "record_id": "CW-2024-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0632", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra", "display_title_redacted": "Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra", "state": "Maharashtra", "district": "Mumbai Suburban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mumbai", "police_station_or_unit": "Vakola Police Station", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1197/2022", "citation": "2024:BHC-AS:34257-DB", "judges": [ "Revati Mohite Dere", "Prithviraj Chavan" ], "judgment_date": "2024-08-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2022-01-15", "incident_year": 2022, "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 384", "IPC 506" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police officers (arresting officers)", "unit": "Vakola Police Station, Mumbai", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police officers (arresting officers), Vakola Police Station, Mumbai" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mumbai man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 25000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/abhijit-padale-vs-state-of-maharashtra-557955.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/no-person-can-be-arrested-merely-on-basis-of-allegations-of-committing-some-crime-bombay-high-court-on-illegal-arrest-of-journalist-267831" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Thane journalist Abhijit Padale was arrested on 15 January 2022 within hours of an FIR under ss. 384/506 IPC, without service of the section 41A notice and without recorded reasons, and remained in custody till bail on 18 January 2022. The court found the arrest mechanical and in stark violation of the CrPC mandate and Arnesh Kumar guidelines, unnecessarily curtailing his liberty. It declared the arrest illegal, awarded Rs 25,000 compensation recoverable from the officers found responsible, and ordered a DCP-rank departmental enquiry. The petitioner is a journalist; the offences carried maximum sentences below seven years. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Thane journalist Abhijit Padale was arrested on 15 January 2022 within hours of an FIR under ss. 384/506 IPC, without service of the section 41A notice and without recorded reasons, and remained in custody till bail on 18 January 2022. The court found the arrest mechanical and in stark violation of the CrPC mandate and Arnesh Kumar guidelines, unnecessarily curtailing his liberty. It declared the arrest illegal, awarded Rs 25,000 compensation recoverable from the officers found responsible, and ordered a DCP-rank departmental enquiry. The petitioner is a journalist; the offences carried maximum sentences below seven years.", "court_quote": "As the Police failed to follow the mandate of the Cr.P.C. and obey the directions of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar (supra), the arrest of the Petitioner was not legal.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified via LiveLaw report and PDF; corrected second judge to Prithviraj Chavan (agent said Shyam C. Chandak); Rs 25,000 for illegal arrest.", "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": "2024-08-22", "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 25,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2024:BHC-AS:34257-DB", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/abhijit-padale-vs-state-of-maharashtra-557955.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/no-person-can-be-arrested-merely-on-basis-of-allegations-of-committing-some-crime-bombay-high-court-on-illegal-arrest-of-journalist-267831", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-48" ], "merged_case_id": "WEST---CENTRAL-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }