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 "record_id": "CW-1977-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0782",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Man vs [name withheld] and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Man vs [name withheld] and Others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Central Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Chandni Chowk",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Man vs [name withheld] and Others",
 "case_number": "RFA 10-D of 1964 with RFA 179-D of 1963",
 "citation": "(1977) CriLJ 1984 : ILR (1977) Delhi 549",
 "judges": [
  "B.C. Misra"
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 "judgment_date": "1977-01-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1977,
 "incident_date": "1957-03-21",
 "incident_year": 1957,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "CrPC s.54 (as then in force)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Station House Officer)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Chandni Chowk, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
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   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (Station House Officer), Kotwali Police Station, Chandni Chowk, Delhi Police"
  },
  {
   "name": "Naut Ram Yadav",
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Chandni Chowk, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "jev_risk": 0.08,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.91,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Naut Ram Yadav",
   "display": "Naut Ram Yadav (Assistant Sub-Inspector)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 12500,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/596273/",
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court held two Kotwali police officers personally liable for the false imprisonment of advocate a Delhi man, whom ASI Naut Ram Yadav arrested from court premises on 21 March 1957 relying on stale register entries that wrongly showed him as a proclaimed offender despite his discharge by a Magistrate in 1950. The Court found the ASI had arrested the plaintiff without verification despite his protests and held SHO liable for directing the drive and negligently failing to supervise the incorrect registers. It dismissed the Union of India's appeal, partly allowed the plaintiff's appeal, and decreed Rs 12,500 in damages jointly and severally against both officers and the Union of India, while recommending the Government consider action over the wrong register entries.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court held two Kotwali police officers personally liable for the false imprisonment of advocate a Delhi man, whom ASI Naut Ram Yadav arrested from court premises on 21 March 1957 relying on stale register entries that wrongly showed him as a proclaimed offender despite his discharge by a Magistrate in 1950. The Court found the ASI had arrested the plaintiff without verification despite his protests and held SHO liable for directing the drive and negligently failing to supervise the incorrect registers. It dismissed the Union of India's appeal, partly allowed the plaintiff's appeal, and decreed Rs 12,500 in damages jointly and severally against both officers and the Union of India, while recommending the Government consider action over the wrong register entries.",
 "court_quote": "We, therefore, find that defendant No. 2 is fully guilty of the tort of false imprisonment.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held two named Delhi Police officers personally liable for false imprisonment; Rs 12,500 decreed jointly and severally.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Other",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1977-01-14",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 12,500.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1977) CriLJ 1984 : ILR (1977) Delhi 549",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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