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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0043",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0776",
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 "display_title": "Mrs. Ratna Mumbai Man and Another vs [name withheld], API, Wadala TT Police Station and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mrs. Ratna Mumbai Man and Another vs [name withheld], API, Wadala TT Police Station and Others",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai City",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mumbai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mrs. Ratna Mumbai Man and Another vs [name withheld], API, Wadala TT Police Station and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 4471 of 2012",
 "citation": "2024:BHC-AS:44106-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Bharati Dangre",
  "Manjusha Deshpande"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-10-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2012-12-01",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "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": [
  "Bombay Police Act 1951 s.79",
  "Bombay Police Act 1951 s.115",
  "Bombay Police Act 1951 s.117",
  "Bombay Police Act 1951 s.33",
  "Bombay Police Act 1951 s.131"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Police Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station, Mumbai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": null,
   "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": "Assistant Police Inspector, Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station, Mumbai"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Mumbai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-1668567.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/ratna-chandrakant-vannam-v-tukaram-k-jadhav-2024bhc-as44106-db-1-lakh-compensation-unlawful-arrest-police-1558518"
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court held the arrest of petitioner2 by API [name withheld] of Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station completely unwarranted, as the s.115 nuisance offence was not committed in the officer's presence so the s.79 arrest power could not be exercised, and the s.117 fine can only be imposed on conviction, not collected by a police officer. The Court called the arrest a classic example of abuse and misuse of police powers and noted the department had punished Jadhav with only a Rs 2,000 fine for not filing an affidavit. Since the criminal case had abated on petitioner2's death, the Court awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation to his widow (petitioner1) payable by the State within 8 weeks, recoverable from the officers responsible including Jadhav. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court held the arrest of petitioner2 by API [name withheld] of Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station completely unwarranted, as the s.115 nuisance offence was not committed in the officer's presence so the s.79 arrest power could not be exercised, and the s.117 fine can only be imposed on conviction, not collected by a police officer. The Court called the arrest a classic example of abuse and misuse of police powers and noted the department had punished Jadhav with only a Rs 2,000 fine for not filing an affidavit. Since the criminal case had abated on petitioner2's death, the Court awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation to his widow (petitioner1) payable by the State within 8 weeks, recoverable from the officers responsible including Jadhav.",
 "court_quote": "We express that the case of arrest of the Petitioner2, in above circumstanced is a classic example of the abuse and misuse of the powers by the police officials and for their act, the petitioners had to suffer and we have noted that despite our direction, no action contemplated through disciplinary proceedings is initiated against the respondent no.1.",
 "court_quote_para": "26",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Unlawful arrest held abuse of power; Rs 1L to widow, recoverable from erring officers.",
 "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 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2024:BHC-AS:44106-DB",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": []
  }
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-12-001",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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