# Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 16 November 2021 in Writ Petition No. 2754 of 2021, the Bombay High Court (Coram: S.S. Shinde, N.J. Jamadar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Senior Police Inspector, Deonar Police Station, Mumbai; Senior Police Inspector, Shivaji Nagar Police Station, Mumbai; Police Sub-Inspector, Deonar Police Station, Mumbai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 20,000.

- Register number: MH 01 CW 0035
- Case reference: Writ Petition No. 2754 of 2021
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: S.S. Shinde, N.J. Jamadar, JJ.), 16 November 2021
- Officer(s) at the material time: Senior Police Inspector, Deonar Police Station, Mumbai; Senior Police Inspector, Shivaji Nagar Police Station, Mumbai; Police Sub-Inspector, Deonar Police Station, Mumbai
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The situation which thus obtains is that, the Accused was detained in police custody in flagrant violation of the order passed by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate to lodge the Accused in prison. The constitutional and legal rights of the Accused …” (at para 15)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Compensation: Rs 20,000.
- 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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/sadiquabee-mohd-usman-shaik-v-state-of-maharashtra-and-ors-404400.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2021-0009)

**Record:** CW-2021-0009 (compiler id CWC-0244); case SWILLEGA-036; aliases: CWC-1468
**Title:** Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra and Ors.
**Court:** Bombay High Court; judges: S.S. Shinde; N.J. Jamadar
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition No. 2754 of 2021
**Judgment:** 2021-11-16 (2021, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2021-07-30 (2021)
**Place:** Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra (district at time: Mumbai); city town: Mumbai; police station or unit: Deonar Police Station and Shivaji Nagar Police Station, Mumbai; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** CrPC 41A
**Officers (gated display forms):** Senior Police Inspector, Deonar Police Station, Mumbai; Senior Police Inspector, Shivaji Nagar Police Station, Mumbai; Police Sub-Inspector, Deonar Police Station, Mumbai (1 in record)
**Victims:** Mumbai man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** Rs 20,000

The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Mumbai man Shaikh, arrested in a Deonar mobile-theft case (CR 399/2021, IPC 380), was kept in the Shivaji Nagar Police Station lock-up from 30.7.2021 to 5.8.2021 even though the Metropolitan Magistrate (45th Court, Kurla) had expressly declined further police custody and remanded him to judicial custody till 13.8.2021. The Court rejected the police explanation of COVID RTPCR unavailability and non-availability of vehicles as flimsy, holding the constitutional and legal rights of the accused were blatantly violated in flagrant violation of the Magistrate's order. It partly allowed the wife's habeas corpus petition, directed the State to pay Rs 20,000 compensation to the accused within four weeks, and left it open to the State to hold an inquiry, fix liability on the concerned officers and take appropriate action. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The situation which thus obtains is that, the Accused was detained in police custody in flagrant violation of the order passed by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate to lodge the Accused in prison. The constitutional and legal rights of the Accused were, thus, blatantly violated.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/sadiquabee-mohd-usman-shaik-v-state-of-maharashtra-and-ors-404400.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-illegal-custody-orders-compensation-rights-of-accused-habeas-corpus-petition-185919); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/13923813/)
**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:** False
**court quote para:** 15
**display title redacted:** Mumbai 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': '2021-11-16', '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 20,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Writ Petition No. 2754 of 2021', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/sadiquabee-mohd-usman-shaik-v-state-of-maharashtra-and-ors-404400.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-illegal-custody-orders-compensation-rights-of-accused-habeas-corpus-petition-185919', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/13923813/', '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:** Full 20-page judgment text verified from LiveLaw PDF (WP 2754/2021, pronounced 16.11.2021, Coram S.S. Shinde and N.J. Jamadar). Pre-remand illegal-detention allegation (26-28.7.2021) was rejected, but five days' post-remand police lock-up detention (30.7.2021-5.8.2021) in defiance of the Magistrate's judicial-remand order was held proved; Rs 20,000 compensation with liberty to hold inquiry and fix liability. Accused are police.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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