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 "record_id": "CW-1996-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0378",
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 "display_title": "Mahabubnagar Woman vs Govt. of A.P. and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mahabubnagar Woman vs Govt. of A.P. and Ors.",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": "Mahabubnagar",
 "district_at_time": "Mahaboobnagar",
 "city_town": "Mahabubnagar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar",
 "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mahabubnagar Woman vs Govt. of A.P. and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 8405 of 1994",
 "citation": "1996(2) ALT 850",
 "judges": [
  "Motilal B. Naik, J."
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1996-06-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1996,
 "incident_date": "1990-08-11",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "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 of India Article 21",
  "Constitution of India Article 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar"
  }
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 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mahabubnagar 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/1321816/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/703894/smt-ratlavat-chandi-vs-govt-of-ap-and-others/",
  "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/443236/smt-ratlavat-chandi-vs-secretary-department"
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 "summary": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) held that a Mahabubnagar man, a rickshaw puller detained at Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar from 07-08-1990 to 11-08-1990, died of custodial torture. The Court relied on the magisterial and CBCID enquiry reports and post-mortem injuries (one abrasion and four contusions), disproving the police story of an insect bite, corroborated by a negative viscera report. It allowed the writ petition, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation within two months apportioned equally among the widow and four minor children, plus Rs 10,000 costs, and ordered enquiries to identify the responsible personnel with liberty to take action including recovery of the compensation from them. No individual officer was named or fixed with liability in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) held that a Mahabubnagar man, a rickshaw puller detained at Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar from 07-08-1990 to 11-08-1990, died of custodial torture. The Court relied on the magisterial and CBCID enquiry reports and post-mortem injuries (one abrasion and four contusions), disproving the police story of an insect bite, corroborated by a negative viscera report. It allowed the writ petition, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation within two months apportioned equally among the widow and four minor children, plus Rs 10,000 costs, and ordered enquiries to identify the responsible personnel with liberty to take action including recovery of the compensation from them. No individual officer was named or fixed with liability in the judgment.",
 "court_quote": "In order to unearth the mystery in this case, the first respondent shall cause necessary enquiries as to who are the police personnel of Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar, responsible for the injuries found on the body of the deceased [name withheld] as is evident from the post mortem report and take appropriate action against such personnel including that of recovery of the compensation amount to be paid to the petitioner as directed above.",
 "court_quote_para": "30",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "AP High Court held a Mahabubnagar man died of custodial torture at Rural PS Mahaboobnagar; Rs 1 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs; State to identify and act against personnel.",
 "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": "1996-06-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1996(2) ALT 850",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "TELANG-001",
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 "service": "police",
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