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 "citation": "2024 INSC 75; 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 77",
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   "descriptor": "Maharashtra resident"
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 "sentence_type": "fine",
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 "compensation_inr": 1200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/shatrughna-atmaram-v-vinod-dodhuwatermark-1584202.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-asks-6-maharashtra-police-officers-to-pay-rs-6-lakhs-cost-to-tenants-who-were-illegally-evicted-248253"
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 "summary": "Two tenants were called to the local police station on 9 March 2022, held for about 24 hours, and coerced to sign vacation documents while their premises were demolished by the vendor family with local police support. Their Section 156(3) complaints were sent for registration by the Sessions Court and sustained by the High Court. During Supreme Court proceedings the tenants settled with the private purchasers for Rs. 10 lakh each. The Court held continuance of the complaints futile but refused to let the six named police personnel go scot-free given their apparent role in conspiring and abetting the detention, coercion and demolition, imposing graded personal costs totalling Rs. 6 lakh per case to the Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund as a condition for quashing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Two tenants were called to the local police station on 9 March 2022, held for about 24 hours, and coerced to sign vacation documents while their premises were demolished by the vendor family with local police support. Their Section 156(3) complaints were sent for registration by the Sessions Court and sustained by the High Court. During Supreme Court proceedings the tenants settled with the private purchasers for Rs. 10 lakh each. The Court held continuance of the complaints futile but refused to let the six named police personnel go scot-free given their apparent role in conspiring and abetting the detention, coercion and demolition, imposing graded personal costs totalling Rs. 6 lakh per case to the Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund as a condition for quashing.",
 "court_quote": "However, what we are not satisfied with is why the police personnel have been allowed to go scot-free in a case where they had an apparent roll in conspiring and in abetting the crime of the illegal detention of the tenants, coercing them to sign the document against their will, and getting the premises in question demolished without any order from a competent Court.",
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 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC recorded police role in illegal detention/demolition and imposed Rs.12L costs; district and rank mapping not in judgment.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
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   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2024 INSC 75; 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 77",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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