# V. B. M. vs The State of Maharashtra

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## Report card

By judgment dated 30 September 2019 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 651 of 2018, the Bombay High Court (Coram: T.V. Nalawade, K.K. Sonawane, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: Police Inspector, Hinjewadi City Police Station, Pune; Police Inspector, Gangapur Police Station, Aurangabad; Police Inspector, Lonikand Police Station, Pune Rural; Police Inspector, Sonai Police Station, Ahmednagar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: MH 12 CW 0015
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 651 of 2018 / AIR Online 2019 Bom 1968
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: T.V. Nalawade, K.K. Sonawane, JJ.), 30 September 2019
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Inspector, Hinjewadi City Police Station, Pune; Police Inspector, Gangapur Police Station, Aurangabad; Police Inspector, Lonikand Police Station, Pune Rural; Police Inspector, Sonai Police Station, Ahmednagar
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 394 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “His age was shown as 20 years by the police. It is contended that by giving false information, PCR and MCR was obtained against him.” (at para 4)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 50,000.
- 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/5856489/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2019-0017)

**Record:** CW-2019-0017 (compiler id CWC-0708); case GAP4-010
**Title:** V. B. M. vs The State of Maharashtra
**Court:** Bombay High Court; bench: Aurangabad; judges: T.V. Nalawade; K.K. Sonawane
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 651 of 2018 / AIR Online 2019 Bom 1968
**Judgment:** 2019-09-30 (2019, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2016-11-26 (2016)
**Place:** Pune, Maharashtra; city town: Rahuri; police station or unit: Hinjewadi / Gangapur / Lonikand / Sonai Police Stations; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 394
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Inspector, Hinjewadi City Police Station, Pune; Police Inspector, Gangapur Police Station, Aurangabad; Police Inspector, Lonikand Police Station, Pune Rural; Police Inspector, Sonai Police Station, Ahmednagar (4 in record)
**Victims:** Rahuri boy, age 15 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. The petitioner, born 3 January 2001 and aged about 15 when robbery cases under Section 394 IPC were registered and when arrested on 26 November 2016, was shown by police as aged 20, remanded to police and magisterial custody on false information, and kept in Yerwada Central Jail as an adult undertrial for 8 months and 25 days across cases in Pune, Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts. All four police stations filed replies. The Aurangabad Bench held the detention in police and magisterial custody illegal, allowed the petition, and directed Rs. 50,000 compensation within 45 days (8% interest on default). It ordered the police-custody-remand and jail records erased so they are never used against the petitioner in future. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> His age was shown as 20 years by the police. It is contended that by giving false information, PCR and MCR was obtained against him.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/5856489/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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'}
**anonymised:** True
**court quote para:** 4
**display title redacted:** V. B. M. vs The State of Maharashtra
**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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2019-09-30', '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 50,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'AIR Online 2019 Bom 1968', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/5856489/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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:** HC judgment verified; minor detained 8+ months as adult on fabricated age, Rs. 50,000 plus record erasure.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 15, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 15-year-old boy'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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