CW-2024-0029MaharashtraJudgment 30 January 2024

[name withheld] & Ors. Maharashtra Resident & Anr.

Two tenants were called to the local police station on 9 March 2022, held for about 24 hours, and coerced to sign vacation documents while their premises were demolished by the vendor family with local police support. Their Section 156(3) complaints were sent for registration by the Sessions Court and sustained by the High Court. During Supreme Court proceedings the tenants settled with the private purchasers for Rs. 10 lakh each. The Court held continuance of the complaints futile but refused to let the six named police personnel go scot-free given their apparent role in conspiring and abetting the detention, coercion and demolition, imposing graded personal costs totalling Rs. 6 lakh per case to the Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund as a condition for quashing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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By judgment dated 30 January 2024 in SLP (Crl.) Nos. 14585/2023, 14572/2023, 14734-14735/2023, 15433/2023, 15294/2023, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Vikram Nath, Satish Chandra Sharma, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 6 police personnel, namely: Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 12 lakh (Rs 12,00,000).

Register number
MH 00 CW 0003
Case reference
SLP (Crl.) Nos. 14585/2023, 14572/2023, 14734-14735/2023, 15433/2023, 15294/2023 / 2024 INSC 75; 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 77
Court and date
Supreme Court of India (Coram: Vikram Nath, Satish Chandra Sharma, JJ.), 30 January 2024
Officer(s) at the material time
Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Not stated in the cited sources
Finding of the Court (extract)
“However, what we are not satisfied with is why the police personnel have been allowed to go scot-free in a case where they had an apparent roll in conspiring and in abetting the crime of the illegal detention of the …” (at para 9)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: fine. Compensation: Rs 12 lakh (Rs 12,00,000).
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

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The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 30 January 2024 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“However, what we are not satisfied with is why the police personnel have been allowed to go scot-free in a case where they had an apparent roll in conspiring and in abetting the crime of the illegal detention of the …” (para 9)

Institutional response

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30 Jan 2024

Order issued

Concluded
Supreme Court of India External · Binding

The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,200,000.

Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: 2024 INSC 75; 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 77
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))

Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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