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 "record_id": "CW-1989-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0755",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Resident v. Police Commissioner, Delhi Police Headquarters",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Resident v. Police Commissioner, Delhi Police Headquarters",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Resident v. Police Commissioner, Delhi Police Headquarters",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(1989) 4 SCC 730",
 "judges": [
  "G. L. Oza",
  "K. N. Saikia"
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 "judgment_date": "1989-01-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1989,
 "incident_date": "1988-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "display": "SHO"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Delhi woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
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  },
  {
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  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 10,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50700,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1600010/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court recorded the DCP's frank admission of police atrocity and awarded compensation to ten victims. Delhi Police had collected poor labourers, took them to the police station for unpaid work, and on demand of wages beat them; a Delhi resident succumbed to injuries and his body was disposed of, while the survivor was stripped and thrashed. The court directed Rs 50,000 for the deceased's family (invested via LIC for monthly support), Rs 500 for the survivor and Rs 25 each for the other eight, recoverable from the guilty officers' salaries after show cause. It noted the SHO had been arrested and criminal prosecution was underway, and preserved further lawful compensation claims. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court recorded the DCP's frank admission of police atrocity and awarded compensation to ten victims. Delhi Police had collected poor labourers, took them to the police station for unpaid work, and on demand of wages beat them; a Delhi resident succumbed to injuries and his body was disposed of, while the survivor was stripped and thrashed. The court directed Rs 50,000 for the deceased's family (invested via LIC for monthly support), Rs 500 for the survivor and Rs 25 each for the other eight, recoverable from the guilty officers' salaries after show cause. It noted the SHO had been arrested and criminal prosecution was underway, and preserved further lawful compensation claims.",
 "court_quote": "It is an unfortunate case where the police collected poor people and took them to the Police Station for doing some work. They were asked to work without labour charges. On demand they were beaten and it appears that one of them a Delhi resident succumbed to the injuries and the body has also been disposed of.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC recorded DCP admission of atrocity; compensated 10 victims; SHO arrested.",
 "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": "Custodial death",
   "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1989-01-13",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,700.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1989) 4 SCC 730",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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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 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-012",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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