Observing that “arrest brings humiliation, curtails freedom and casts scars forever,” the Bombay High Court declared the 20-day custody of a Karnataka-based man in a cheating case by the Mumbai Police as “illegal and without lawful authority” and directed the Maharashtra government to pay him Rs 1 lakh as compensation.

A bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh D Patil on September 29 passed a verdict 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, along with advocates Dhruti Chheda and Anukul Seth for the petitioner, also sought a departmental inquiry against two officers from Bandra Police station and compensation from the state towards “deprivat

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