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 "display_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary & Ors.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
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 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Subramanyanagar Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
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 "case_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary & Ors.",
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 "citation": "1995 SCC OnLine Kar 245; 1995 Cri LJ 4148; ILR 1995 KAR 2424; 1996 ACJ 1091; 1995 (6) Kar LJ 8",
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 "judgment_date": "1995-07-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1995,
 "incident_date": "1988-05-18",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art 21",
  "Constitution Art 226"
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   "name": null,
   "age": 40,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 40"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/541497/",
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 "summary": "A Bengaluru man, arrested by Subramanyanagar police for autorickshaw theft, died in the station on 18 May 1988; police claimed he hanged himself with a torn woollen rug, and a court-ordered Chief Metropolitan Magistrate enquiry accepted suicide and denied damages. The Division Bench rejected the enquiry report, holding that the police examined neither the alleged eyewitnesses nor the post-mortem doctor and discharged none of the onus on them to show absence of negligence. The court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the widow and three minor children and directed the State to work out a scheme for interim relief of not less than Rs 25,000 within one month in every custodial death. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man, arrested by Subramanyanagar police for autorickshaw theft, died in the station on 18 May 1988; police claimed he hanged himself with a torn woollen rug, and a court-ordered Chief Metropolitan Magistrate enquiry accepted suicide and denied damages. The Division Bench rejected the enquiry report, holding that the police examined neither the alleged eyewitnesses nor the post-mortem doctor and discharged none of the onus on them to show absence of negligence. The court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the widow and three minor children and directed the State to work out a scheme for interim relief of not less than Rs 25,000 within one month in every custodial death.",
 "court_quote": "As we have said earlier, once a prisoner is in police custody, custodial death cannot be treated in casual and cavalier fashion. We find as stated earlier, the legal heirs of the victims do not get any relief for many years.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC Division Bench rejected the suicide theory and CMM report in a 1988 custodial death, held police negligent, and awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation with a statewide interim-relief direction.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "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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   "date": "1995-07-14",
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   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1995 SCC OnLine Kar 245; 1995 Cri LJ 4148; ILR 1995 KAR 2424; 1996 ACJ 1091; 1995 (6) Kar LJ 8",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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