The Bombay High Court recently directed the state of Maharashtra to pay Rs1 lakh in compensation to a woman for the unlawful arrest of her husband in 2012. The court also raised serious concerns about police misconduct and failing to hold officers accountable.
A bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande criticised the authorities for their lax attitude in cases of police wrongdoing. "We had already expressed our anguish in no uncertain words in our order dated August 14, 2013, specifically by recording that the allegations against the police officers are taken very lightly and casually and the citizens are not believed as a matter of course. Here is a classic example," the bench said.
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