# Koregaon, Taluka Kaij Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 16 August 2018 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1451 of 2015, the Bombay High Court (Coram: S. S. Shinde, V. K. Jadhav, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: Shankar P. Rathod (Police Head Constable (Buckle 502)); Police Naik (Badge 1277), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; Police Naik (Badge 1490), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; Police Constable (Badge 2157), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: MH 23 CW 0003
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 1451 of 2015 / AIRONLINE 2018 BOM 889
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: S. S. Shinde, V. K. Jadhav, JJ.), 16 August 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Shankar P. Rathod (Police Head Constable (Buckle 502)); Police Naik (Badge 1277), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; Police Naik (Badge 1490), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; Police Constable (Badge 2157), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Article 22(1) of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “There is clear violation of mandate laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of D.K. Basu (supra), as much as prima facie, there is sufficient material to draw inference that deceased \[name withheld\] was subjected to custodial violence.” (at para 20)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. 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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35329061/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0009)

**Record:** CW-2018-0009 (compiler id CWC-0249); case SWCUSTOD-011
**Title:** Koregaon, Taluka Kaij Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
**Court:** Bombay High Court; bench: Aurangabad; judges: S. S. Shinde; V. K. Jadhav
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 1451 of 2015 / AIRONLINE 2018 BOM 889
**Judgment:** 2018-08-16 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2015-08-26 (2015)
**Place:** Beed, Maharashtra; city town: Koregaon, Taluka Kaij; police station or unit: Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 34; Constitution Art 21; Constitution Art 22(1)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Shankar P. Rathod (Police Head Constable (Buckle 502)); Police Naik (Badge 1277), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; Police Naik (Badge 1490), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed; Police Constable (Badge 2157), Shivajinagar Police Station, Beed (4 in record)
**Victims:** Koregaon, Taluka Kaij man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)

The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition, holding there was a clear violation of the D.K. Basu mandate and sufficient material to infer that a Koregaon, Taluka Kaij man was subjected to custodial violence after being picked up on 26-08-2015 and dying the same day in Shivajinagar police custody. The court disbelieved the police story that he jumped from a running police van near Massajog, citing unrecorded detention, no medical examination, no intimation to relatives, and tampered handcuff-register entries. It awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation (Rs 2 lakh FD for the widow, Rs 50,000 for the father, Rs 50,000 FD for each of five minor children) with liberty to recover from the erring officials, directed registration of a Section 302 read with 34 IPC crime against the four policemen with State CID investigation monitored by the ADG CID Pune, and initiated suo motu contempt against PHC Rathod. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> There is clear violation of mandate laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of D.K. Basu (supra), as much as prima facie, there is sufficient material to draw inference that deceased \[name withheld\] was subjected to custodial violence.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35329061/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 20
**display title redacted:** Koregaon, Taluka Kaij Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '2018-08-16', '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 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'AIRONLINE 2018 BOM 889', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35329061/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Primary judgment text verified. Accused are police; adverse finding with compensation. Judgment spells Rathod's middle initial inconsistently (P. in para 21, H. in Order III(a)); recorded as Shankar Rathod. Departmental penalty (2-year increment stoppage for Rathod, \[name withheld\], \[name withheld\]) noted from State reply.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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