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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0018",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0614",
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 "display_title": "Hingoli Man v. State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Hingoli Man v. State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Hingoli",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Hingoli",
 "police_station_or_unit": "City Police Station, Hingoli",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": "Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "Hingoli Man v. State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Application No. 2908 of 2024",
 "citation": "2024:BHC-AUG:26094-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Vibha Kankanwadi",
  "S.G. Chapalgaonkar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-10-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2024-08-06",
 "incident_year": 2024,
 "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 500",
  "IT Act 66A",
  "IT Act 66B",
  "IT Act 67A"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Inspector / Investigating Officer",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "City Police Station, Hingoli",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.14,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.88,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Inspector / Investigating Officer, City Police Station, Hingoli"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable (complainant in personal capacity)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Hingoli",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.27,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.73,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (complainant in personal capacity), Hingoli"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 43,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Hingoli man, age 43"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 250000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/ashwinkumar-sanap-vs-state-of-maharashtra-569605.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/bombay-high-court-asks-maharashtra-police-pay-2-lakhs-man-who-was-illegally-detained",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-high-court-ashwinkumar-pandhari-sanapv-state-of-maharashtra-2024bhc-aug26094-db-section-66a-section-66b-information-technology-act-1557235"
 ],
 "summary": "…arrested at 00:31 hrs on 06-08-2024 with sections swapped at production (report to delete ss.66-A/66-B and add s.67-A before the Magistrate); the Court held the IO applied no mind to which sections were invoked and recorded no reason for the arrest…. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "…arrested at 00:31 hrs on 06-08-2024 with sections swapped at production (report to delete ss.66-A/66-B and add s.67-A before the Magistrate); the Court held the IO applied no mind to which sections were invoked and recorded no reason for the arrest…",
 "court_quote": "It is beyond imagination that before the arrest the Investigating Officer will not apply his mind, as to which are the sections those are invoked, what is the punishment, that is, prescribed and whether he can make a legal arrest in such situations?",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: s.66A arrest illegal; FIR quashed; Rs.2.5 lakh personal compensation.",
 "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": "2024-10-23",
   "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 250,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2024:BHC-AUG:26094-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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/ashwinkumar-sanap-vs-state-of-maharashtra-569605.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/bombay-high-court-asks-maharashtra-police-pay-2-lakhs-man-who-was-illegally-detained",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/bombay-high-court-ashwinkumar-pandhari-sanapv-state-of-maharashtra-2024bhc-aug26094-db-section-66a-section-66b-information-technology-act-1557235",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-035",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}