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HC asks Maha govt to pay Rs One lakh as compensation to a man from Karnataka

Mumbai, Oct 5 (UNI) Bombay High Court today directed the Maharashtra government to pay Rs one lakh as compensation to a businessman from Karnataka after declaring the custody of the petitioner as “illegal and without lawful authority in a cheating case.
A bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh D Patil, in its order delivered last week on a plea by Vasantha Perampally Nayak belonging to Udupi district in Karnataka, seeking a declaration that his arrest on October 23, 2024, was illegal.
Senior advocate Aabad Ponda, for the petitioner, also sought a departmental inquiry against two officers from Bandra Police station and compensation from the state towards “deprivation of petitioner’s liberty and for the humiliation and stigma faced by him.”
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