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 "record_id": "CW-1997-0001",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Panskura Man vs State of West Bengal and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Panskura Man vs State of West Bengal and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Purba Medinipur",
 "district_at_time": "Midnapore",
 "city_town": "Panskura",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Panskura Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Panskura Man vs State of West Bengal and Others",
 "case_number": "C.C. No. 18207 (W) of 1995",
 "citation": "1997 Cri LJ 1762",
 "judges": [
  "Bhagabati Prosad Banerjee",
  "Asok Kumar Chakravarty"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1997-01-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1994-10-17",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "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"
 ],
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (then Officer-in-Charge)",
   "unit": "Panskura Police Station",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector (then Officer-in-Charge), Panskura Police Station"
  },
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
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   "key2_union": "unclear",
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   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Panskura Police Station"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Panskura 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/1910337/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/853371/lawyers-forum-for-human-rights-vs-state-of-west-bengal-and/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. A Panskura man, arrested with four others on 8 October 1994, was kept in the Panskura police lock-up without production before a Magistrate, mercilessly tortured, and died on 17 October 1994; police claimed he jumped from a running jeep. On a letter-petition by the Lawyers' Forum for Human Rights, a Division Bench rejected the police story, noting the post-mortem showed death from subdural haemorrhage caused by a hard blunt substance and that the police affidavits were full of contradictions. The court allowed the writ, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh divided equally between both widows within two months, and ordered every police station in the State to maintain lock-up and diet registers. Departmental proceedings against SI and ASI were already pending.",
 "summary_verified": "A Panskura man, arrested with four others on 8 October 1994, was kept in the Panskura police lock-up without production before a Magistrate, mercilessly tortured, and died on 17 October 1994; police claimed he jumped from a running jeep. On a letter-petition by the Lawyers' Forum for Human Rights, a Division Bench rejected the police story, noting the post-mortem showed death from subdural haemorrhage caused by a hard blunt substance and that the police affidavits were full of contradictions. The court allowed the writ, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh divided equally between both widows within two months, and ordered every police station in the State to maintain lock-up and diet registers. Departmental proceedings against SI and ASI were already pending.",
 "court_quote": "We have no hesitation in holding that this Court was sought to be misled from the very beginning by filing affidavits which could not be relied on as the same were full of contradictions. It is very unfortunate that the post-mortem report which clearly suggested that the death was due to hitting the head with some hard substance.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rs 1 lakh to two widows for custodial-death beating; statewide registers ordered.",
 "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": "1997-01-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1997 Cri LJ 1762",
   "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": "WESTBE-005",
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