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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0038",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0613",
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 "display_title": "Akola Man v. State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Akola Man v. State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Akola",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Akola",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Khadan",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": "Nagpur",
 "case_title": "Akola Man v. State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 389 of 2024",
 "citation": "2026:BHC-NAG:11441-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Urmila Joshi-Phalke",
  "Raj D. Wakode"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-08-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2024-03-04",
 "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": [
  "Essential Commodities Act 1955 s.3",
  "Essential Commodities Act 1955 s.7"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
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   "rank": "Assistant Police Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Police Station Khadan, Akola",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.54,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Police Inspector, Police Station Khadan, Akola"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Police Station Khadan, Akola",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.53,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.61,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Inspector, Police Station Khadan, Akola"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Akola man, age 26"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/05/detention-698328.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-orders-compensation-illegal-detention-548884"
 ],
 "summary": "Student was picked up from his family hotel on 04-03-2024 by PI [name withheld] and API [name withheld], detained overnight without any Section 41/41-A notice or recorded grounds after an alleged Rs. 50,000 extortion demand, and released next morning. A departmental enquiry had already held both officers guilty of misconduct and punished them. The Division Bench held they exceeded their limits in arresting the petitioner without following due process, violating his Article 21 rights. It directed the State to pay Rs. 2 lakh compensation within eight weeks, deposited in court, rejecting the further-enquiry prayer as already satisfied. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Student was picked up from his family hotel on 04-03-2024 by PI [name withheld] and API [name withheld], detained overnight without any Section 41/41-A notice or recorded grounds after an alleged Rs. 50,000 extortion demand, and released next morning. A departmental enquiry had already held both officers guilty of misconduct and punished them. The Division Bench held they exceeded their limits in arresting the petitioner without following due process, violating his Article 21 rights. It directed the State to pay Rs. 2 lakh compensation within eight weeks, deposited in court, rejecting the further-enquiry prayer as already satisfied.",
 "court_quote": "In the light of the above observations, in the present case also, respondent Nos.3 and 4 have acted as police officers and exceeded their limits and thus committed an error in arresting the petitioner without following due provisions of law.",
 "court_quote_para": "47",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: overnight detention without grounds illegal; Rs.2 lakh; DE punishment already imposed.",
 "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": "2026-08-31",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026:BHC-NAG:11441-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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/05/detention-698328.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-orders-compensation-illegal-detention-548884",
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  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-034",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}