Ranade, who currently holds the post of a Assistant Registrar in Bombay High Court, had issued notices to six police officers - the then Thane Police Commissioners, Amarjeet Singh Samra, Additional Commissioner of Police Basavraj Akashi, Deputy Commissioners of Police P T Lohar, Uttamrao Kale and Prabhat Ranjan and Senior Police Inspector M S Surve - to pay compensation to 27 TADA accused for wrongfully charging them under the Arms act, 1959 and under section 250 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code. The TADAdetenues included former chairperson of Thane Municipal Corporation, Ganesh Sawant and former standing committee chairman, Sudhakar Chavan.

Sawant, Chavan and 25 others were detained under TADA by the Naupada Police Station, Thane, for allegedly assaulting Arun Govind Mudliar, a businessman.Ranade's compensation order was challenged by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Uttamrao Kale in November this year. Citing a 1997 Supreme court judgment, Justice Rebello held that the TADA court had no jurisdiction to pass orders of compensation to the TADA accused. Moreover, he said petitioner (Uttamrao Kale) was only doing an administrative job and had no role whatsoever in the investigations of the case and thus could not be held responsible for any shortcomings in the prosecution case.