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 misconduct and punished them. The Division Bench held they exceeded their limits in arresting the petitioner without following due process, violating his Article 21 rights. It directed the State to pay Rs. 2 lakh compensation within eight weeks, deposited in court, rejecting the further-enquiry prayer as already satisfied. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 31 August 2026 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 389 of 2024, the Bombay High Court (Coram: Urmila Joshi-Phalke, Raj D. Wakode, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Assistant Police Inspector, Police Station Khadan, Akola; Police Inspector, Police Station Khadan, Akola, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
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Judgment dated 31 August 2026. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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Official finding: supports allegation.
Holding not recorded separately.
“In the light of the above observations, in the present case also, respondent Nos.3 and 4 have acted as police officers and exceeded their limits and thus committed an error in arresting the petitioner without following due provisions of law.” (para 47)
The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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