# Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra

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## Report card

By judgment dated 22 August 2024 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1197/2022, the Bombay High Court (Coram: Revati Mohite Dere, Prithviraj Chavan, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police officers (arresting officers), Vakola Police Station, Mumbai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 25,000.

- Register number: MH 01 CW 0043
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 1197/2022 / 2024:BHC-AS:34257-DB
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: Revati Mohite Dere, Prithviraj Chavan, JJ.), 22 August 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police officers (arresting officers), Vakola Police Station, Mumbai
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 384 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “As the Police failed to follow the mandate of the Cr.P.C. and obey the directions of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar (supra), the arrest of the Petitioner was not legal.” (at para 12)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 25,000.
- 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/abhijit-padale-vs-state-of-maharashtra-557955.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2024-0013)

**Record:** CW-2024-0013 (compiler id CWC-0632); case WEST---CENTRAL-004
**Title:** Mumbai Man vs State of Maharashtra
**Court:** Bombay High Court; judges: Revati Mohite Dere; Prithviraj Chavan
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 1197/2022 / 2024:BHC-AS:34257-DB
**Judgment:** 2024-08-22 (2024, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2022-01-15 (2022)
**Place:** Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra; city town: Mumbai; police station or unit: Vakola Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 384; IPC 506
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police officers (arresting officers), Vakola Police Station, Mumbai (1 in record)
**Victims:** Mumbai man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 25,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Thane journalist Abhijit Padale was arrested on 15 January 2022 within hours of an FIR under ss. 384/506 IPC, without service of the section 41A notice and without recorded reasons, and remained in custody till bail on 18 January 2022. The court found the arrest mechanical and in stark violation of the CrPC mandate and Arnesh Kumar guidelines, unnecessarily curtailing his liberty. It declared the arrest illegal, awarded Rs 25,000 compensation recoverable from the officers found responsible, and ordered a DCP-rank departmental enquiry. The petitioner is a journalist; the offences carried maximum sentences below seven years. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> As the Police failed to follow the mandate of the Cr.P.C. and obey the directions of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar (supra), the arrest of the Petitioner was not legal.

**Sources (2):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/abhijit-padale-vs-state-of-maharashtra-557955.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/no-person-can-be-arrested-merely-on-basis-of-allegations-of-committing-some-crime-bombay-high-court-on-illegal-arrest-of-journalist-267831)
**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:** 12
**display title redacted:** Mumbai Man vs 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': '2024-08-22', '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 25,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2024:BHC-AS:34257-DB', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/abhijit-padale-vs-state-of-maharashtra-557955.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/no-person-can-be-arrested-merely-on-basis-of-allegations-of-committing-some-crime-bombay-high-court-on-illegal-arrest-of-journalist-267831', '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:** Judgment verified via LiveLaw report and PDF; corrected second judge to Prithviraj Chavan (agent said Shyam C. Chandak); Rs 25,000 for illegal arrest.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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