{
 "record_id": "CW-1992-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0122",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Delhi Man and Others vs Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Man and Others vs Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Central Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Man and Others vs Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "1993 ACJ 393; 48 (1992) DLT 714",
 "judges": [
  "Anil Dev Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1992-04-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1992,
 "incident_date": "1991-05-02",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:no",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.93,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.11,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/579717/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43971311/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Delhi High Court awarded Rs 1 lakh plus a job to the family of a Delhi man, beaten to death at PS Lahori Gate. Picked up hale and hearty by Constable on mere suspicion in the wee hours of 2 May 1991, he reached St. Stephen Hospital unconscious the same day with 16 ante-mortem injuries and died of cerebral damage on 10 May; the SDM inquest found severe beating in the police station and FIR 430/1991 was lodged against the constable. The Court held the family must be given adequate compensation for the custodial killing, recoverable from the erring officers after trial, while clarifying its observations would not prejudice the criminal proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court awarded Rs 1 lakh plus a job to the family of a Delhi man, beaten to death at PS Lahori Gate. Picked up hale and hearty by Constable on mere suspicion in the wee hours of 2 May 1991, he reached St. Stephen Hospital unconscious the same day with 16 ante-mortem injuries and died of cerebral damage on 10 May; the SDM inquest found severe beating in the police station and FIR 430/1991 was lodged against the constable. The Court held the family must be given adequate compensation for the custodial killing, recoverable from the erring officers after trial, while clarifying its observations would not prejudice the criminal proceedings.",
 "court_quote": "According to the inquest report the deceased before his death was given severe beating in the police station.",
 "court_quote_para": "3",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Suspicion-pickup beaten to death; Rs 1L plus widow's job, recoverable from erring officers.",
 "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": "1992-04-22",
   "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 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1993 ACJ 393; 48 (1992) DLT 714",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/579717/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43971311/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "DELHI-031",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}