CW-2014-0015Pune, MaharashtraJudgment 7 January 2014

Pune Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Sagar Ubhe alleged he was picked up on 25.01.2012 and kept at Crime Branch Unit II, Pune without intimation or magistrate production till 30.01.2012, beaten to extract a confession; police claimed arrest only on 29.01.2012. A JMFC enquiry found illegal detention and tampering of the arrest register date. The court accepted the enquiry report, held the 25-30 January 2012 detention and the subsequent Yerawada re-arrest entirely illegal, and directed the State to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation within 8 weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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By judgment dated 7 January 2014 in Writ Petition No. 499 of 2012, the Bombay High Court (Coram: S.C. Dharmadhikari, G.S. Patel, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Police Constable, Crime Branch Unit II, Pune; Police Constable, Crime Branch Unit II, Pune, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

Register number
MH 12 CW 0004
Case reference
Writ Petition No. 499 of 2012
Court and date
Bombay High Court (Coram: S.C. Dharmadhikari, G.S. Patel, JJ.), 7 January 2014
Officer(s) at the material time
Police Constable, Crime Branch Unit II, Pune; Police Constable, Crime Branch Unit II, Pune
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 50 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 50A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 56 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 57 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Finding of the Court (extract)
“Following D. K. Basu, we must, therefore, hold that the detention of the petitioner from 25th January 2012 to 30th January 2012 was entirely illegal, as was his subsequent arrest by the Yerawada police.” (at para 27)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

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The Bombay High Court judgment dated 7 January 2014 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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Official finding: supports allegation.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“Following D. K. Basu, we must, therefore, hold that the detention of the petitioner from 25th January 2012 to 30th January 2012 was entirely illegal, as was his subsequent arrest by the Yerawada police.” (para 27)

Institutional response

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7 Jan 2014

Order issued

Concluded
Bombay High Court External · Binding

The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.

Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: Writ Petition No. 499 of 2012
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))

Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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