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

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/shatrughna-atmaram-v-vinod-dodhuwatermark-1584202.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2024-0029)

**Record:** CW-2024-0029 (compiler id CWC-0912); case GAP2-60-002
**Title:** \[name withheld\] & Ors. Maharashtra Resident & Anr.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Vikram Nath; Satish Chandra Sharma
**Case number / citation:** SLP (Crl.) Nos. 14585/2023, 14572/2023, 14734-14735/2023, 15433/2023, 15294/2023 / 2024 INSC 75; 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 77
**Judgment:** 2024-01-30 (2024, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2022-03-09 (2022)
**Place:** Maharashtra; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police; Police personnel, Maharashtra Police (6 in record)
**Victims:** Maharashtra resident; Maharashtra resident (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** fine; Rs 12 lakh (Rs 12,00,000)
**Sentence type:** fine (fine)

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.

> 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 tenants, coercing them to sign the document against their will, and getting the premises in question demolished without any order from a competent Court.

**Sources (3):** [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/shatrughna-atmaram-v-vinod-dodhuwatermark-1584202.pdf); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159752479/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-asks-6-maharashtra-police-officers-to-pay-rs-6-lakhs-cost-to-tenants-who-were-illegally-evicted-248253)
**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:** 9
**display title redacted:** \[name withheld\] & Ors. Maharashtra Resident & 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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2024-01-30', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2024 INSC 75; 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 77', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/shatrughna-atmaram-v-vinod-dodhuwatermark-1584202.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159752479/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-asks-6-maharashtra-police-officers-to-pay-rs-6-lakhs-cost-to-tenants-who-were-illegally-evicted-248253', '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:** SC recorded police role in illegal detention/demolition and imposed Rs.12L costs; district and rank mapping not in judgment.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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