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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0071",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1344",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Mumbai Man And Ors vs Central Bureau Of Investigation And Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mumbai Man And Ors vs Central Bureau Of Investigation And Ors",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Wadala Railway Police Station; Kurla Railway 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 Central Bureau Of Investigation And Ors",
 "case_number": "CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.4451 OF 2022 with CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.4104 OF 2022",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A. S. Gadkari",
  "Shyam C. Chandak"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-04-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2014-04-18",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "Sections 302 and 295-A of the IPC"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Senior Police Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Wadala Railway Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Senior Police Inspector, Wadala Railway Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Police Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Wadala Railway Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Police Inspector, Wadala Railway Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Wadala Railway Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Wadala Railway Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Wadala Railway Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Wadala Railway Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Wadala Railway Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Wadala Railway Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 5,
 "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/44261376/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court upheld the trial court's order directing framing of additional charges under Sections 302 and 295-A of the IPC against railway police personnel for the custodial death of a detainee picked up for a robbery inquiry. The High Court held that there was sufficient material against the accused police personnel. The High Court held that adverse inference was permissible against the police. The High Court sent the matter back for framing of charges and trial.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court upheld the trial court's order directing framing of additional charges under Sections 302 and 295-A of the IPC against railway police personnel for the custodial death of a detainee picked up for a robbery inquiry. The High Court held that there was sufficient material against the accused police personnel. The High Court held that adverse inference was permissible against the police. The High Court sent the matter back for framing of charges and trial.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, adverse inference is permissible against the police whomsoever he/she may be.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 13",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "case_title incorrectly shows '[name withheld]' — actual title is '[name withheld] And Ors vs Central Bureau Of Investigation And Ors'",
 "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": "2026-04-06",
   "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.4451 OF 2022 with CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.4104 OF 2022",
   "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/44261376/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-mh-hc-1",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}