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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0063",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1346",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Mumbai Man And Ors vs The State Of Maharashtra And Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mumbai Man And Ors vs The State Of Maharashtra And Ors",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station",
 "court": "High Court of Judicature at Bombay",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Bombay",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mumbai Man And Ors vs The State Of Maharashtra And Ors",
 "case_number": "CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 49 OF 2020",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Ravindra V. Ghuge",
  "Gautam A. Ankhad"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-09-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2019-10-28",
 "incident_year": 2019,
 "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",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Police Inspector",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Police Inspector, Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Senior Police Inspector (SHO)",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Senior Police Inspector (SHO), Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Naik",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police Naik, Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station"
  }
 ],
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163239742/",
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 "summary": "The High Court examined the death of a 22-year-old within hours of being taken to Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station. The High Court held that many loose strings emerged from the record and that the case deserved transfer to the CBI. The High Court held that the record falsified the police version that CCTVs were uninstalled due to renovation work. The High Court transferred further investigation to the CBI and kept compensation claims pending.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court examined the death of a 22-year-old within hours of being taken to Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station. The High Court held that many loose strings emerged from the record and that the case deserved transfer to the CBI. The High Court held that the record falsified the police version that CCTVs were uninstalled due to renovation work. The High Court transferred further investigation to the CBI and kept compensation claims pending.",
 "court_quote": "This, therefore, falsifies the version of the Police authorities that the CCTVs were uninstalled due to renovation work.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 31",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited 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": "2025-09-11",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Bombay",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Judicature at Bombay recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 49 OF 2020",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163239742/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "cop-mh-hc-3",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}