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Police told her she was a suspect in a 2017 theft case, he said.agencies The petitioner alleged she was arrested and taken to the police station on the evening of September 5 itself. Her counsel alleged she was arrested around 3.40pm on September 5 and kept in police lockup overnight. Mumbai: The Bombay high court has issued notices to the Maharashtra government and Mumbai police over a petition filed by a woman who demanded Rs 10 lakh in compensation , claiming she was illegally detained in a theft case.In a hearing conducted earlier this week, a bench of Justices B P Dharamadhikari and Revati Mohite-Dere issued notices to Mumbai police, the investigating officer (IO) in the case attached to Andheri’s D N Nagar police station and the state government. The bench directed the police and the state to file their respective affidavits.The 55-year-old petitioner had approached the high court alleging she was arrested last September on false charges and kept in illegal police custody overnight, in contravention of the law and her fundamental rights.The woman, through her lawyer Karim Pathan, stated that D N Nagar police station sent her a notice on September 5, 2018, asking her to be present at the police station the next morning for questioning in connection with a theft case..