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 "record_id": "CW-1993-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0281",
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 "display_title": "Jeraikela Woman vs State Of Orissa And Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jeraikela Woman vs State Of Orissa And Ors.",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Sundargarh",
 "district_at_time": "Sundergarh",
 "city_town": "Jeraikela (Bisra)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jeraikela Police Outpost, PS Bisra",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jeraikela Woman vs State Of Orissa And Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(1993) 2 SCC 746; AIR 1993 SC 1960",
 "judges": [
  "J.S. Verma",
  "A.S. Anand",
  "N. Venkatachala"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1993-03-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1993,
 "incident_date": "1987-12-01",
 "incident_year": 1987,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 32"
 ],
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  {
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Jeraikela Police Outpost, PS Bisra",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2_agy": null,
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   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.9,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.08,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Jeraikela Police Outpost, PS Bisra"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Jeraikela Police Outpost, PS Bisra",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.93,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.07,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Jeraikela Police Outpost, PS Bisra"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Jeraikela man, age 22"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1628260/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/12126.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "A Jeraikela man, 22, was taken from home into custody at Jeraikela outpost on 01-12-1987 by ASI for a theft inquiry, handcuffed and detained; his body with multiple injuries was found on the railway track the next morning. The Supreme Court rejected the escape-and-train-accident story, confirming on reappraisal the District Judge's finding of death by multiple injuries inflicted in police custody. Holding it a custodial death violating Article 21 and rejecting sovereign immunity, the court awarded Rs 1.5 lakh compensation (term deposit for the mother) plus Rs 10,000 costs to the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee. It directed the State to ascertain and fix individual responsibility and take appropriate action, in this landmark public-law compensation ruling. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Jeraikela man, 22, was taken from home into custody at Jeraikela outpost on 01-12-1987 by ASI for a theft inquiry, handcuffed and detained; his body with multiple injuries was found on the railway track the next morning. The Supreme Court rejected the escape-and-train-accident story, confirming on reappraisal the District Judge's finding of death by multiple injuries inflicted in police custody. Holding it a custodial death violating Article 21 and rejecting sovereign immunity, the court awarded Rs 1.5 lakh compensation (term deposit for the mother) plus Rs 10,000 costs to the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee. It directed the State to ascertain and fix individual responsibility and take appropriate action, in this landmark public-law compensation ruling.",
 "court_quote": "the learned District Judge reached the conclusion that it is a case of custodial death and a Jeraikela man died as a result of the injuries inflicted to him voluntarily while he was in police custody at the Police Outpost Jeraikela. We have reached the same conclusion on a reappraisal of the evidence adduced at the inquiry taking into account the circumstances, which also support that conclusion.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court (3J) held a Jeraikela man beaten to death in Jeraikela custody; Rs 1.5L + Rs 10k costs. Landmark Art-21 compensation law.",
 "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"
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 "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": "1993-03-24",
   "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 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1993) 2 SCC 746; AIR 1993 SC 1960",
   "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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 "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-002",
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 "service": "police",
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