# Latur Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 11 November 2022 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1482 of 2017 with Criminal Application No. 711 of 2018, the Bombay High Court (Coram: Mangesh S. Patil, Abhay S. Waghwase, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police Naik (lock-up guard), MIDC Police Station, Latur, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).

- Register number: MH 24 CW 0003
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 1482 of 2017 with Criminal Application No. 711 of 2018
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: Mangesh S. Patil, Abhay S. Waghwase, JJ.), 11 November 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Naik (lock-up guard), MIDC Police Station, Latur
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 384 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “when death has taken place while in custody of police, such machinery, though indirectly, is responsible for the death” (at para 26)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).
- 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/199436558/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0022)

**Record:** CW-2022-0022 (compiler id CWC-0257); case MAHARA-017
**Title:** Latur Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.
**Court:** Bombay High Court; bench: Aurangabad; judges: Mangesh S. Patil; Abhay S. Waghwase
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 1482 of 2017 with Criminal Application No. 711 of 2018
**Judgment:** 2022-11-11 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2017-10-15 (2017)
**Place:** Latur, Maharashtra; city town: Latur; police station or unit: MIDC Police Station, Latur; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 384
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Naik (lock-up guard), MIDC Police Station, Latur (1 in record)
**Victims:** Latur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that businessman \[name withheld\], in his early forties and in MIDC (Latur) police custody on remand till 16-10-2017, died after the lock-up guard negligently handed phenyl directly to him in the lock-up on 15-10-2017, which he consumed and for which he died during treatment. The court found the police machinery indirectly responsible for a death in its custody and liable to compensate as an instrumentality of the Government. It declined CBI transfer since the CID/DySP probe was continuing, and rejected the Rs 2 crore claim. It awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to the widow and minor son (Rs 2.5 lakh each in fixed deposit, Rs 5 lakh to the widow within three months), holding the brother and mother not entitled. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> when death has taken place while in custody of police, such machinery, though indirectly, is responsible for the death

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/199436558/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/85471650/)
**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:** 26
**display title redacted:** Latur Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.
**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': \['court_quote_para', 'officers'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2022-11-11', '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 1,000,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Criminal Writ Petition No. 1482 of 2017 with Criminal Application No. 711 of 2018', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/199436558/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/85471650/', '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:** Bombay HC (Aurangabad) held death in MIDC Latur custody from guard negligence; Rs 10L. Corrected: phenyl, not acid.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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