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MH 01 CW 005310 September 2026 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
The High Court recorded that a constable stopped a Mumbai jeweller on his motorcycle in Borivali East on 04.02.2018, kept his licence, and, by the man's account, demanded Rs. 500 as a penalty or Rs. 300 as a bribe; the man was then detained at Kasturba Marg Police Station until an FIR for assault and intimidation was…
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MH 01 CW 00522 September 2026 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
The High Court held that the petitioner's custody in C.R. No. 1285 of 2026 of Juhu Police Station violated Section 43(5) of the BNSS. The High Court held that the arrest documents did not show the signature of any woman police officer. The High Court ordered that the petitioner be released forthwith in connection with…
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MH 30 CW 000331 August 2026 · Akola, Maharashtra
Student was picked up from his family hotel on 04-03-2024 by PI [name withheld] and API [name withheld], detained overnight without any Section 41/41-A notice or recorded grounds after an alleged Rs. 50,000 extortion demand, and released next morning. A departmental enquiry had already held both officers guilty of…
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MH 27 CW 000421 April 2026 · Amravati, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur bench held that Talegaon police violated the fundamental rights of a lawyer and an ex-serviceman detained under preventive action after a midnight cross-complaint on 26 August 2010. The Court found they were stripped to undergarments, kept handcuffed in public view and transported by…
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MH 01 CW 00516 April 2026 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
The High Court upheld the trial court's order directing framing of additional charges under Sections 302 and 295-A of the IPC against railway police personnel for the custodial death of a detainee picked up for a robbery inquiry. The High Court held that there was sufficient material against the accused police…
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MH 04 CW 001426 March 2026 · Thane, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. In June 2018 a video went viral showing RPF constable Rajesh Jangid, posted as Commando and in uniform at Kalyan railway station, sitting beside a woman passenger on a platform bench and touching her inappropriately until co-passengers intervened.…
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MH 31 CW 001816 January 2026 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The High Court held that the petitioner was wrongfully arrested and no procedure prescribed by law was followed in Crime No.159/2019. The High Court held that the departmental inquiry report was an eyewash and that senior officers tried to shield the wrongful acts of the field staff. The High Court quashed the FIR…
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MH 01 CW 004829 September 2025 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
…the court found respondents 3-4 invoked s.409 'unilaterally without seeking permission of the superiors, as required' to avoid s.41A notice, calling it 'gross abuse of law' (para 17); 'high-handedness' was the petitioner's submission, not the court's word — drop or re-attribute…. Matters not addressed in the cited…
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MH 01 CW 005011 September 2025 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
The High Court examined the death of a 22-year-old within hours of being taken to Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station. The High Court held that many loose strings emerged from the record and that the case deserved transfer to the CBI. The High Court held that the record falsified the police version that CCTVs were…
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MH 22 CW 00014 July 2025 · Parbhani, Maharashtra
The High Court examined the death of a detainee after the December 2024 Parbhani combing action and custody at Mondha Police Station. The High Court held that there was a gross violation of human rights and that the deceased died due to the police authorities. The High Court held that a cognizable offence was made out…
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MH 04 CW 00157 April 2025 · Thane, Maharashtra
The High Court examined the police-van shooting death of an undertrial being escorted by a Thane Crime Branch team. The High Court held that the starting point of investigation, registration of an FIR, was itself not complied with. The High Court held that the PUCL guidelines on encounter investigations were cited…
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MH 11 CW 000825 November 2024 · Satara, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (A.S. Chandurkar, J.; Rajesh S. Patil, J. concurring) held that Police Inspector (ex-SHO, President's Police Medal 2004) was arrested illegally on 13 March 2013 at 17:15 by Addl. SP Amol Tambe over alleged faulty investigation in Crime 19/2009 and kept about 20 hours till bail on 14 March 2013.…
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MH 38 CW 000323 October 2024 · Hingoli, Maharashtra
…arrested at 00:31 hrs on 06-08-2024 with sections swapped at production (report to delete ss.66-A/66-B and add s.67-A before the Magistrate); the Court held the IO applied no mind to which sections were invoked and recorded no reason for the arrest…. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded…
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MH 01 CW 004423 October 2024 · Mumbai City, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court held the arrest of petitioner2 by API [name withheld] of Wadala Truck Terminal Police Station completely unwarranted, as the s.115 nuisance offence was not committed in the officer's presence so the s.79 arrest power could not be exercised, and the s.117 fine can only be imposed on conviction…
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MH 35 CW 000625 September 2024 · Gondia, Maharashtra
The Supreme Court (2-judge bench, split verdict) confirmed the finding of custodial torture of a Gondia man @ a Gondia man and upheld the conviction and sentence of four Gondia City policemen (A2 [name withheld], A4 [name withheld], A3 [name withheld], A5 [name withheld]) under Sections 330, 348 and 387 read with 34…
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MH 01 CW 004322 August 2024 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
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…
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MH 01 CW 003919 March 2024 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
On 11 November 2006 a Mumbai Police squad led by encounter-specialist PI [name withheld] abducted Ramnarayan Gupta (Lakhan Bhaiya) and [name withheld] at Vashi, held them at Bhandup and D.N. Nagar police station, and shot Gupta dead in a staged encounter at Nana Nani Park, Versova, registering it as genuine (CR…
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MH 01 CW 004119 March 2024 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Mumbai man, 33, was abducted with friend [name withheld] on 11 November 2006 and killed the same day in a staged shooting near Nana Nani Park, Versova, in an encounter the SIT said was led by Senior Inspector in conspiracy with the victim's…
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MH 20 CW 001418 March 2024 · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Paithan man, a Scheduled Caste man arrested on 14 June 2015 in a theft case, alleged illegal detention, assault and abuse by Police Inspector of Paithan Police Station. A Commission inquiry found excesses, and the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad…
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MH 00 CW 000330 January 2024 · Maharashtra
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…
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MH 01 CW 003829 September 2023 · Mumbai City, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Music teacher a Mumbai man was detained at Tardeo Police Station on 17 July 2023 and transferred overnight to Saat Rasta Lock-up in connection with C.R. No. 310/2023 registered under Sections 354A and 509 IPC, both bailable offences. Despite Sampat…
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MH 23 CW 00062 March 2023 · Beed, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held there was total negligence by the Beed jail authorities and the on-duty police guard in denying medical care to 32-year-old undertrial a Beed man, who complained of chest pain from early February 2012 but was shifted to hospital only on 23-02-2012 and died on 27-02-2012.…
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MH 13 CW 001018 January 2023 · Solapur, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that the death of 23-year-old Pradip Kute on 04-11-2018 was a homicidal custodial death at the hands of two head constables of the Manegaon outpost, who intercepted his sugarcane tractor over a loudly played tape recorder and beat him with sticks, kicks and fists. Relying…
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MH 01 CW 003716 January 2023 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. The petitioner was appointed constable/driver in the CISF on 3 November 2007 but suppressed a pending criminal case (FIR No. 153 of 2003, under Sections 323, 324 and 341 IPC) in his entry-time character-verification certificate. The Commandant…
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MH 01 CW 003623 November 2022 · Mumbai City, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. On 7 May 2014 a 17-year-old boy who had left home after a quarrel accepted a motorcycle lift near Shanmukhananda Hall, Sion, from Vilas Kaldhone, who said he was police personnel; Kaldhone took him to a building terrace and sexually assaulted him at…
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MH 24 CW 000311 November 2022 · Latur, Maharashtra
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…
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MH 01 CW 003516 November 2021 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
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…
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MH 16 CW 001113 January 2021 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that a Burudgaon, Ahmednagar woman, a 50-year-old Pardhi tribal woman illegally picked up on 12-05-2007 without any arrest record, died in police custody after torture at Kotwali Police Station, the LCB office and the Jamkhed rest house to extract information about stolen…
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MH 23 CW 00051 December 2020 · Beed, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad) allowed the petition of a Kumshi man (33) and a Kumshi man (34) of Kumshi, holding their six-day detention from 30 January 2013 illegal and awarding Rs 50,000 to each petitioner (Rs 1 lakh total) payable by the State within 45 days (8% interest on default), with liberty to fasten…
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MH 16 CW 001026 November 2020 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that about-16-year-old a 16-year-old boy, picked up on suspicion of pick-pocketing at the Sai temple on 31-03-2016 and put in the Shirdi police lock-up without age enquiry, arrest panchnama or intimation to parents, died in the lock-up the same day. The court concluded it…
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MH 32 CW 000317 December 2019 · Wardha, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Deoli man and his son Dr. Indraprasad Futane, parties to a temple-trust dispute in Deoli, were detained at Deoli police station from 5:00 AM to 12:00 PM on 5 February 2014 under Section 151(1) CrPC before being taken to an Executive Magistrate. The…
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MH 16 CW 000929 November 2019 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. At about 2 a.m. on the night of 5-6 May 2018, Newasa police searched the petitioner's house without a search warrant and recovered nothing objectionable; the petitioner alleged an attempt to plant a country-made pistol and threats of false…
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MH 20 CW 00125 November 2019 · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. After cross-complaints over a private quarrel on 9 May 2019, Pishor police arrested father-son petitioners a Kannad man (42, labour contractor) and Amol Pawar (23, student) on 31 May 2019 though custodial interrogation was unnecessary for such a…
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MH 12 CW 001530 September 2019 · Pune, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. The petitioner, born 3 January 2001 and aged about 15 when robbery cases under Section 394 IPC were registered and when arrested on 26 November 2016, was shown by police as aged 20, remanded to police and magisterial custody on false information, and…
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MH 16 CW 000711 July 2019 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Three members of an advocate family were arrested on 26 October 2014 in bailable offences and kept in the Kotwali lockup before being remanded to police custody till 29 October, with bail refused. The Additional Sessions Judge had already held in…
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MH 38 CW 00029 July 2019 · Hingoli, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. The petitioner, an accused in Crime No. 157/2009 of Hingoli police station, was granted ad-interim anticipatory bail by the High Court, but investigating officer PI [name withheld] refused to honour it, arrested him and detained him illegally…
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MH 01 CW 00326 March 2019 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. On 11 November 2006, personnel of the D.N. Nagar and Versova police stations abducted Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhanbhaiya and [name withheld], and Gupta was shot dead in what was projected as an encounter. A Magistrate inquiry under section 176(1A)…
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MH 26 CW 000310 December 2018 · Nanded, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Nanded man died an unnatural death in the Vajirabad Police Station lock-up, Nanded, while in custody in Crime No. 104/2013 of Vimantal Police Station; his parents and daughter obtained Rs 7 lakh compensation from the Bombay High Court's…
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MH 31 CW 00134 September 2018 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
On the night of 23/24 June 1993 Nagpur policemen dragged Joinus Yellamati from his home at about 1 AM without registering any offence, beat him at multiple locations to extract a confession, and locked him up; he was found dead in the morning. The trial court convicted ten policemen and the High Court sustained only…
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MH 23 CW 000316 August 2018 · Beed, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition, holding there was a clear violation of the D.K. Basu mandate and sufficient material to infer that a Koregaon, Taluka Kaij man was subjected to custodial violence after being picked up on 26-08-2015 and dying the same day in Shivajinagar police…
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MH 24 CW 000131 July 2017 · Latur, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition of Shivabai, holding that her husband [name withheld] was illegally detained at Bhada Police Station from 19-12-2005 without arrest record and died in custody on 20-12-2005. The court rejected the police story that he hanged himself in the toilet…
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MH 21 CW 00039 June 2015 · Jalna, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. The petitioner, a civil engineer from Airoli (Navi Mumbai), was picked up by Ambad police on 12 April 2014 in a dowry complaint case but produced before the Magistrate only on 14 April 2014, and was also subjected to a forced medical examination. The…
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MH 19 CW 000130 July 2014 · Jalgaon, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Two Bhusawal labourers who went to lodge a complaint were instead detained on 23.08.2005, arrested under s.41(2) CrPC in chapter cases under s.110(e)(g), and kept in custody till 27.08.2005 though relatives were ready with sureties. The court held…
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MH 12 CW 00047 January 2014 · Pune, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Sagar Ubhe alleged he was picked up on 25.01.2012 and kept at Crime Branch Unit II, Pune without intimation or magistrate production till 30.01.2012, beaten to extract a confession; police claimed arrest only on 29.01.2012. A JMFC enquiry found…
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MH 16 CW 000322 October 2013 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad held that Rahuri and Local Crime Branch police illegally arrested and detained agriculturist a Rahuri man from 19 to 22 August 2012, dragging him from court under a sham Section 151 CrPC and Chapter VIII procedure without recording reasons, to torture, humiliate and teach him a…
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MH 26 CW 00018 July 2013 · Nanded, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Undertrial a Kandhar man (21, Crime No. 90/2009, PS Loha) was shot dead in the Sub-Jail Kandhar lock-up on the night of 2.2.2011 by on-duty Police Constable with his.303 service rifle; Marwade then shot himself dead and an 'A' abetted summary was…
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MH 04 CW 000513 June 2013 · Thane, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court held that the detention and arrest of elderly petitioner [name withheld] and her son [name withheld] by Vashi police was illegal and a blatant violation of the Supreme Court's D.K. Basu directives, as they were called to the station on the pretext of registering her complaint, detained, and…
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MH 01 CW 001121 December 2012 · Mumbai City, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court held that PSI of Navghar Police Station took two senior citizens, a Mumbai man (66) and a Mumbai woman (62) a Mumbai man, into custody at Aurangabad on the night of 2 December 2011 in a s.498A case and kept them detained without showing arrest until 4 December 2011, about 35 hours 40 minutes…
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MH 01 CW 001025 June 2012 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Police raided card games at the Andheri Gymkhana on 10 August 2011 and detained 17 people, including senior citizens and two women, at Andheri police station from 9:30 pm till 6 am without food, toilet access or medicines. The Court held the bridge…
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MH 01 CW 000910 April 2012 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
A Mumbai man, 27, arrested in December 2002 in the Ghatkopar bus-blast case, died on 6-1-2003 at Ghatkopar Police Station; police claimed he escaped en route to Aurangabad, but a CID probe found custodial torture and death and trial began against four policemen. His mother [name withheld]'s writ was allowed with the…
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MH 12 CW 000331 March 2012 · Pune, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Baramati man, a labourer of Karjat (Ahmednagar), was forcibly picked up on 14 June 2009 by Baramati police without arrest memo, station-diary entry or permission to enter another district; his wife alleged a constable repeatedly demanded Rs. 10…
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MH 01 CW 00085 March 2012 · Mumbai City, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court held that officers of Gamdevi Police Station illegally detained a Mumbai woman overnight from 5 to 6 April 2008 after she visited the station to collect her complaint FIR, without any arrest memo, intimation to her mother, entry in the arrest register, or information of her bail rights for a…
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MH 01 CW 000722 August 2011 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Head Constable of Sahar police station took a ~14-year-old beggar girl in an autorickshaw on 17.10.2005 and sexually assaulted her near a temple wall until a passer-by intervened. The trial court convicted him under ss.363, 366, 376(2)(a) and 323 IPC…
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MH 35 CW 00045 August 2011 · Gondia, Maharashtra
A Gondia man @ a Gondia man died in the custody of Gondia City police in December 1995 during interrogation; seven police personnel were convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Gondia in February 1997 under Sections 304/34 IPC, convictions later confirmed up to the Supreme Court. His widow [name withheld] filed…
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MH 31 CW 00082 August 2011 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held the State liable for the custodial death of Nitin Patil, who died while remanded in custody at Ramtek Police Station on 22 July 2003. Patil had been repeatedly arrested across multiple police stations in successive criminal cases and subjected to continuous custody before…
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MH 31 CW 00092 August 2011 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that a Nagpur man, acquitted in his last sessions case on 29 March 2011, was detained in Nagpur Central Prison from the evening of 30 March to the morning of 3 April 2011 without any authority of law. The Court recorded the SP Gadchiroli's admission that Police Constable…
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MH 35 CW 000312 July 2011 · Gondia, Maharashtra
The Nagpur Bench upheld the convictions of a Sub-Inspector and six constables for the custodial torture and homicidal death of theft suspect [name withheld] at Gondia City station in December 1995, whose body was burnt to screen the offence. The Court held all charges proved except destruction of evidence regarding…
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MH 01 CW 000624 August 2010 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Mumbai Narcotic Cell police took a Mumbai man, aged about 57, into custody at Tuticorin on 20.2.1997 for interrogation in NDPS Crime No.18/1997, showed arrest only on 25.2.1997, and lodged him in the Azad Maidan lock-up, where he died on 1.3.1997.…
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MH 29 CW 00014 May 2009 · Yavatmal, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Inderjitsingh Chauhan was arrested by Pusad police on 24.10.2003 and died in police custody; a three-doctor panel post-mortem showed antemortem injuries and CID registered ss.302/201 IPC against ten police personnel. His mother and brother sought…
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MH 20 CW 000317 November 2008 · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Police Head Constable demanded Rs.500 from complainant [name withheld] to desist from arresting two men in a land-dispute inquiry at Waluj, Aurangabad, taking Rs.100 on 27.04.1991 and the Rs.400 balance in an ACB trap at Rajasthan Upahargriha on…
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MH 31 CW 000713 December 2007 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) upheld the conviction of nine Nagpur Crime Branch policemen under Section 330 IPC for custodially torturing a Nagpur man, picked up from his home around 1 a.m. on 24 June 1993 and found dead in the lock-up that morning with 23 injuries. The Court dismissed the State appeals against…
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MH 09 CW 000122 March 2007 · Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Arun Pandav, 25, was picked up from his home around midnight on 16.12.1985 by Shahupuri police probing an elopement case and found dead with 19 injuries in the lock-up on 17.12.1985. The Sessions Court acquitted all 11 accused policemen, accepting a heart-failure theory. The court held Arun died of assault in the…
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MH 00 CW 000219 October 2006 · Maharashtra
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of [name withheld], an employee of the State Reserve Police, against his concurrent conviction under Section 302 IPC for the murder of a Maharashtra woman on 3 September 1988. The Court credited the last-seen evidence of PWs 1, 3 and 4, corroborated by medical evidence, and held…
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MH 35 CW 000210 January 2006 · Gondia, Maharashtra
a 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old Gond tribal girl, was seized from her home at midnight in 1990, hanged from a tree in the Keshori forest and beaten unconscious, then illegally detained for years with her arrest recorded only in 1993 and falsely implicated in three serious cases including under TADA, all ending in…
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MH 12 CW 00021 April 2005 · Pune, Maharashtra
Head Constable of Khadki Police Station, Pune, was trapped by the Anti-Corruption Department on 28.5.1993 accepting illegal gratification for returning complainant [name withheld]'s tempo and documents, and convicted by the Special Court, Pune on 19.10.2001 (6 months RI plus Rs 7,500 fine). He was dismissed from…
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MH 00 CW 00019 March 2005 · Maharashtra
Police Constable was dismissed from service on 13.05.1999 after a departmental enquiry (June-October 1998), but the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal set aside the dismissal as without authority of law. The State's writ petition relied on a later MAT Full Bench holding that enquiry powers under the Bombay Police…
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MH 31 CW 000627 January 2005 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
Sudhakar Yerpude, a Nagpur goldsmith, was picked up by Lakadganj police on 9 February 2002, detained for three days without any arrest record, and released only after handing over gold, silver and Rs 15,000, the court found. He was picked up again by Gittikhadan police on the night of 27 February 2002 and tortured to…
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MH 10 CW 00029 March 2004 · Sangli, Maharashtra
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of policeman for attempting to murder his sleeping colleague-relative a Sangli man with a service.303 rifle at the Sangli police headquarters guard room on 18 July 1983. The Court held intention and knowledge under Section 307 IPC proved, the bullet having struck the cot springs…
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MH 36 CW 000230 April 2003 · Bhandara, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court held that undertrial a Bhandara man died a custodial death in Central Jail, Bhandara after five named personnel forced him into wrestling practice, fracturing his waist and neck bones; he was hospitalised in January 2000 and death was reported on 8 February 2000. The court found him a victim of…
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MH 20 CW 000213 March 2003 · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Replace 'with a B Summary sought' with 'and moved the Magistrate for discharge of the petitioner (para 8)'. The judgment never uses the term 'B Summary'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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MH 36 CW 00016 September 2002 · Bhandara, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that Police Station Officer of Veltur falsely arrayed housewife Sharda Bhongade as an accused in a 1995 morcha case without any investigation, showing blatant disregard for the rule of law. The court found she suffered mental and physical agony, monetary loss and loss of…
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MH 20 CW 000113 February 2002 · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that an Aurangabad man, arrested on 30-10-1994 and found dead in the Kranti Chowk lock-up on the night of 8/9 November 1994 after about ten days in custody, died a homicidal custodial death following torture. The court rejected the police suicide-by-hanging story as…
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MH 16 CW 000230 January 2002 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench, Justices S.S. Parkar and D.S. Zoting) awarded symbolic compensation of Rs 10,000 to a Newasa man for a mala fide 2.5-day detention in May 1990. Arrested on 5 May 1990 on a threat complaint by a witness in an earlier criminal case against him, he was kept in custody without any…
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MH 30 CW 000117 September 2001 · Akola, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. An Akola man, arrested on 29.9.1999 in Crime No. 205/1999, was found dead in the Ramdaspeth police lock-up on the morning of 30.9.1999; the post-mortem recorded 21 ante-mortem injuries (20 contusions, one abrasion) with death by syncope from multiple…
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MH 28 CW 000127 July 2001 · Buldhana, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that journalist Surendra Taori of Malkapur was mercilessly beaten by police officers in Rural Police Station custody on 24 October 1999, sustaining serious injuries including to his right eye, after reporting on police malpractice. The court further held he was illegally…
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MH 10 CW 000117 December 1999 · Sangli, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court confirmed the conviction of Police Head Constable of Jath Police Station, Sangli, for demanding and accepting Rs 790 in illegal gratification from six vehicle owners to release seized vehicles without prosecution and for hushing up Motor Vehicles Act cases. The Court held the evidence of the…
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MH 01 CW 000318 September 1999 · Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Mumbai man, aged about 26, was tortured through the night of 27/28 June 1990 in the kachcha lock-up of Oshiwara Police Station by seven police officers, witnessed by co-detainees, and died of the injuries after admission to Bhagwati Hospital. The…
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MH 04 CW 000424 March 1999 · Thane, Maharashtra
The petitioner, a prosecution witness in two murder cases, was repeatedly arrested by Bazarpeth police at the instance of the convict Mhatre family; two earlier Section 151(3) arrests in February and April 1998 ended in immediate release by the Judicial Magistrate. He was arrested again on 16 July 1998 under Section…
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MH 04 CW 000315 January 1998 · Thane, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Shahapur man, aged 21, was arrested on 10 June 1997 in a robbery case and remanded to police custody, where his wife alleged he was subjected to third-degree torture from 11 to 16 June 1997 until he died on the night of 16 June. Police claimed he…
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MH 31 CW 000426 August 1994 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. In the night of 23/24 June 1993 a ten-member Crime Branch party led by PI [name withheld] dragged a Nagpur man, a 32-year-old railway khalasi, from his Ajni Railway quarters residence, beat him near his house and again in the police lock-up, where he…
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MH 01 CW 000226 February 1992 · Raigad, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Head Constable, posted at Kolad outpost under PS Roha, was entrusted with an Essential Commodities case against grocer a Kolad man and threatened to arrest, handcuff and parade him 15 km to Roha unless paid. He extracted Rs.80 on 10 September 1980…
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MH 31 CW 000315 February 1992 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of acting Sub-Inspector Sham Kant, Station House Officer of Ramtek, and confirmed his conviction under Section 330 IPC for torturing temple-theft suspects a Ramtek man and a Ramtek man in police custody between 25 June and 1 July 1980. The Court accepted the survivor's account of…
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MH 13 CW 000219 March 1991 · Solapur, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Undertrial prisoner Ravikant Patil, arrested in Karnataka in a murder investigation, was handcuffed with both arms tied by rope and paraded through the main squares of Sholapur on 17.8.1989, after a local paper announced the parade. The Bombay…
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MH 13 CW 000115 January 1991 · Solapur, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. PSI, Police Station Officer at Mandrup, detained a fodder-laden tractor-trolley and demanded Rs.300 from its owner to release it, saying no hafta was being paid. The owner approached the Anti-Corruption Branch, which laid a trap with marked currency…
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MH 04 CW 000223 October 1990 · Thane, Maharashtra
The Supreme Court set aside the Bombay High Court order and restored the removal from service of Police Inspector, who in uniform visited the survivor's hutment near Bhiwandi Town PS on 13 November 1965, demanded sexual intercourse and tried to take her by force. The Court rejected the High Court's approach of…
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MH 31 CW 000118 January 1990 · Nagpur, Maharashtra
The Supreme Court allowed the State appeal, set aside the Bombay High Court acquittal and restored the trial court's conviction of Sub-Inspector for raping newly-wed the complainant twice after isolating her from her husband on the night of 22 August 1981. The Court held a prosecutrix is a victim, not an accomplice…
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MH 39 CW 000131 August 1971 · Nandurbar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court sustained the dismissal of constable, caught in an Anti-Corruption trap accepting a Rs. 5 bribe at Nawapur on 14 April 1958, even though he had been acquitted in the criminal trial under s.161 IPC. The court held that a criminal acquittal does not bind the departmental authority where proceedings…
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MH 16 CW 00014 December 1958 · Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court allowed the State appeal against acquittal and reversed the Special Judge's acquittals in a bribery case where constable of Rahata acted as conduit for a Rs. 400 bribe demand on behalf of his father-in-law, the Special Executive Magistrate. The court held the Special Judge failed to examine the…
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MH 01 CW 000117 January 1956 · Mumbai City, Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court declined to interfere with the dismissal of constable of the Bombay City Police Force, who faced departmental charges arising from a 1950 corruption investigation. The court found he had been heard in full by every authority bound to hear his defence and that setting aside the third dismissal…
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MH 11 CW 00012 December 1955 · Satara, Maharashtra
The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Police Patil Shamrao Patil demanded and received Rs.25 for issuing a solvency certificate for use in criminal proceedings. The Special Judge, North Satara, accepted the payment was proved but acquitted on the ground that issuing the certificate was…
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