# Nanded Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 December 2018 in Criminal Appeal No. 1585 of 2018 (arising out of SLP (Crl) No. 6488 of 2016), the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Uday Umesh Lalit, R. Subhash Reddy, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Vimantal Police Station (Crime No. 104/2013), Nanded, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 7 lakh (Rs 7,00,000).

- Register number: MH 26 CW 0003
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 1585 of 2018 (arising out of SLP (Crl) No. 6488 of 2016) / (2019) 13 SCC 595; (2018) INSC 1000
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: Uday Umesh Lalit, R. Subhash Reddy, JJ.), 10 December 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Vimantal Police Station (Crime No. 104/2013), Nanded
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We therefore modify the aforesaid direction of the High Court and state that as and when the liability for the crime in question is fastened, the State shall be at liberty to recover the amount of compensation from the concerned …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Compensation: Rs 7 lakh (Rs 7,00,000).
- 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://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2018/december/88.php); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0017)

**Record:** CW-2018-0017 (compiler id CWC-0243); case MAHARA-010; aliases: CWC-0530; CWC-0543
**Title:** Nanded Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Uday Umesh Lalit; R. Subhash Reddy
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 1585 of 2018 (arising out of SLP (Crl) No. 6488 of 2016) / (2019) 13 SCC 595; (2018) INSC 1000
**Judgment:** 2018-12-10 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2013-09-28 (2013)
**Place:** Nanded, Maharashtra; city town: Nanded; police station or unit: Vimantal Police Station, Nanded (Crime No. 104/2013); death in Vajirabad Police Station lock-up; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Vimantal Police Station (Crime No. 104/2013), Nanded (1 in record)
**Victims:** Nanded man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** Rs 7 lakh (Rs 7,00,000)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Nanded man died an unnatural death in the Vajirabad Police Station lock-up, Nanded, while in custody in Crime No. 104/2013 of Vimantal Police Station; his parents and daughter obtained Rs 7 lakh compensation from the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad Bench (Crl WP 39/2015, 4.7.2016), which also ordered immediate recovery from the Investigating Officer-in-charge, Amol Kadu. The Supreme Court affirmed that monetary compensation is an appropriate remedy for the established infringement of the fundamental right to life and that the State is vicariously liable on strict liability. It modified only the recovery direction, holding the State may recover from the erring officials once liability for the crime is fastened, and disposed of the appeal in those terms.

> We therefore modify the aforesaid direction of the High Court and state that as and when the liability for the crime in question is fastened, the State shall be at liberty to recover the amount of compensation from the concerned erring officials.

**Sources (4):** [advocatekhoj.com](https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2018/december/88.php); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5d848ce9714d58266e07f2a8); [pdf.lawlens.in](https://pdf.lawlens.in/2f35b817-bdcc-486e-aff3-999d64a56491); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/183976602/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Nanded Man vs State of Maharashtra and 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': '2018-12-10', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 700,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2019) 13 SCC 595; (2018) INSC 1000', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2018/december/88.php', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5d848ce9714d58266e07f2a8', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://pdf.lawlens.in/2f35b817-bdcc-486e-aff3-999d64a56491', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/183976602/', '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:** Supreme Court judgment text verified via AdvocateKhoj mirror (Criminal Appeal 1585/2018, JJ Lalit and Subhash Reddy, 10.12.2018); appeal disposed of, Rs 7 lakh compensation affirmed on strict State liability, HC's immediate-recovery direction against the IO modified to recovery only after liability is fastened. Accused is police (IO-in-charge). Incident date 2013-09-28 and SCC citation retained from merged input: the SC text restates neither and the underlying HC judgment (Crl WP 39/2015) full text was unreachable (casemine 403).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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