{ "record_id": "CW-1993-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0118", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kashmere Gate Man vs State (Delhi Administration)", "display_title_redacted": "Kashmere Gate Man vs State (Delhi Administration)", "state": "Delhi", "district": "Central Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kashmere Gate", "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Kashmere Gate", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kashmere Gate Man vs State (Delhi Administration)", "case_number": null, "citation": "I (1995) ACC 432", "judges": [ "Y.K. Sabharwal" ], "judgment_date": "1993-08-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1993, "incident_date": "1991-08-15", "incident_year": 1991, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kashmere Gate man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 20000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/317048/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Y.K. Sabharwal, J.) awarded Rs 20,000 (payable within one month) plus Rs 1,100 costs for the illegal detention of the wrong man for one month and nine days. Assistant Mistri a Kashmere Gate man was arrested on 15 August 1991 as the namesake proclaimed offender wanted since 1983 — though his father's name (not Ram Singh) and address differed from the charge-sheet — and, despite protesting from arrest and again on 16.8.1991, was refused bail by the Magistrate and once by the Sessions Court before another Sessions Judge granted bail (released 23.9.1991); a Magisterial enquiry (26.9.1992, with the unnamed 1983 Investigating Officer confirming he was not the man) proved the mistaken identity. The Court held the petitioner was deprived of liberty by the casual, irresponsible, careless and negligent acts of unnamed police officers who paid no heed to his protests, leaving the State free to fix responsibility, recover the award from officers at fault, and take lawful action against them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Y.K. Sabharwal, J.) awarded Rs 20,000 (payable within one month) plus Rs 1,100 costs for the illegal detention of the wrong man for one month and nine days. Assistant Mistri a Kashmere Gate man was arrested on 15 August 1991 as the namesake proclaimed offender wanted since 1983 — though his father's name (not Ram Singh) and address differed from the charge-sheet — and, despite protesting from arrest and again on 16.8.1991, was refused bail by the Magistrate and once by the Sessions Court before another Sessions Judge granted bail (released 23.9.1991); a Magisterial enquiry (26.9.1992, with the unnamed 1983 Investigating Officer confirming he was not the man) proved the mistaken identity. The Court held the petitioner was deprived of liberty by the casual, irresponsible, careless and negligent acts of unnamed police officers who paid no heed to his protests, leaving the State free to fix responsibility, recover the award from officers at fault, and take lawful action against them.", "court_quote": "Clearly, the petitioner was deprived of his liberty because of casual, irresponsible, careless and negligent acts of the Police Officers.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Delhi HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; month-long detention of wrong man, Rs 20,000 + costs.", "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1993-08-19", "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 20,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "I (1995) ACC 432", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "officers", "sections", "court_quote_para", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/317048/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-28" ], "merged_case_id": "DELHI-027", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }