# Burudgaon, Ahmednagar Woman & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 13 January 2021 in Criminal Writ Petition Nos. 363 of 2008 with 1658 of 2015, the Bombay High Court (Coram: T. V. Nalawade, M. G. Sewlikar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 7 police personnel, namely: Police Inspector, Kotwali Police Station, Ahmednagar; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Police Sub-Inspector, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Policeman, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Policeman, Ahmednagar police; Police personnel, Ahmednagar police; Police personnel, Ahmednagar police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: MH 16 CW 0011
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition Nos. 363 of 2008 with 1658 of 2015
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: T. V. Nalawade, M. G. Sewlikar, JJ.), 13 January 2021
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Inspector, Kotwali Police Station, Ahmednagar; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Police Sub-Inspector, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Policeman, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Policeman, Ahmednagar police; Police personnel, Ahmednagar police; Police personnel, Ahmednagar police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 331 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 343 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 109 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 166 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 193 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “So far as relief of compensation claimed by legal representatives of deceased is concerned, aforesaid material is more than sufficient to prove that a Burudgaon, Ahmednagar woman died in the custody of Police.” (at para 27)
- 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/10612754/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2021-0001)

**Record:** CW-2021-0001 (compiler id CWC-0251); case MAHARA-010
**Title:** Burudgaon, Ahmednagar Woman & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
**Court:** Bombay High Court; bench: Aurangabad; judges: T. V. Nalawade; M. G. Sewlikar
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition Nos. 363 of 2008 with 1658 of 2015
**Judgment:** 2021-01-13 (2021, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2007-05-12 (2007)
**Place:** Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra (district at time: Ahmednagar); city town: Burudgaon, Ahmednagar; police station or unit: Kotwali Police Station and Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 306; IPC 330; IPC 331; IPC 341; IPC 343; IPC 201; IPC 109; IPC 166; IPC 193; IPC 34; IPC 120B
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Inspector, Kotwali Police Station, Ahmednagar; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Police Sub-Inspector, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Policeman, Local Crime Branch, Ahmednagar; Policeman, Ahmednagar police; Police personnel, Ahmednagar police; Police personnel, Ahmednagar police (7 in record)
**Victims:** Burudgaon, Ahmednagar woman, age 50 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)

The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that a Burudgaon, Ahmednagar woman, a 50-year-old Pardhi tribal woman illegally picked up on 12-05-2007 without any arrest record, died in police custody after torture at Kotwali Police Station, the LCB office and the Jamkhed rest house to extract information about stolen gold, rejecting the CID suicide-by-poison theory since no poison was detected and nine ante-mortem injuries including a head injury were found. The court held no sanction under Section 197 CrPC was needed as every act was unauthorised and illegal, left it open to the trial court to frame murder charges (Sections 302, 201 read with 120B IPC), and vacated the stay on Sessions Case No. 184 of 2013. It granted Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a Burudgaon, Ahmednagar woman's legal representatives (State to deposit in court within 45 days, 8% default interest, recoverable from the responsible police officers after inquiry). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> So far as relief of compensation claimed by legal representatives of deceased is concerned, aforesaid material is more than sufficient to prove that a Burudgaon, Ahmednagar woman died in the custody of Police.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/10612754/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/145629790/)
**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:** 27
**display title redacted:** Burudgaon, Ahmednagar Woman & Anr. 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': '2021-01-13', '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': 'Criminal Writ Petition Nos. 363 of 2008 with 1658 of 2015', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/10612754/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/145629790/', '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 (7 charge-sheeted + 1 private doctor, Dr. Sidhavaram Deepak Subramanyam, excluded from officers). Full accused names/ranks taken from judgment memo and findings; first name '\[name withheld\]' is as printed in source text and may be a transcription error; \[name withheld\] noted as died; ranks null where judgment silent. Input's recall-rejection (Crl. Appln. 1365/2021, 21-08-2021) not re-verified; kept only as secondary source link.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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