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 "record_id": "CW-1997-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0050",
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 "display_title": "Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors.",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Bhagalpur",
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 "city_town": "Jagdishpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jagdishpur Police Station / DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "1998 ACJ 981, 1997 (45) BLJR 1365",
 "judges": [
  "Choudhary S.N. Mishra"
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 "judgment_date": "1997-05-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1994-07-24",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 21",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226",
  "IPC 304"
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Jagdishpur Police Station"
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   "rank": "Driver-cum-Constable",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Constable (Bodyguard), Office of DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Jagdishpur man, age 27"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Jagdishpur man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 155000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/721289/",
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court allowed a criminal writ petition filed by Dulari Devi for the custodial death of her 27-year-old husband, a Jagdishpur man, who died in Central Jail Bhagalpur on July 28, 1994, following severe beatings in police custody. On July 24, 1994, a police party led by DSP tied up and assaulted a Jagdishpur man and neighbor a Jagdishpur man with lathis, assaulted them further at Jagdishpur police station, and falsely implicated them under the Arms Act. The Court held that the deceased died due to excessive torture inflicted by the four police respondents, directed the State to deposit Rs. 1,50,000 compensation and Rs. 5,00,000 costs with liberty to recover the sum from the guilty officers, and instructed the State to consider initiating criminal prosecution against them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court allowed a criminal writ petition filed by Dulari Devi for the custodial death of her 27-year-old husband, a Jagdishpur man, who died in Central Jail Bhagalpur on July 28, 1994, following severe beatings in police custody. On July 24, 1994, a police party led by DSP tied up and assaulted a Jagdishpur man and neighbor a Jagdishpur man with lathis, assaulted them further at Jagdishpur police station, and falsely implicated them under the Arms Act. The Court held that the deceased died due to excessive torture inflicted by the four police respondents, directed the State to deposit Rs. 1,50,000 compensation and Rs. 5,00,000 costs with liberty to recover the sum from the guilty officers, and instructed the State to consider initiating criminal prosecution against them.",
 "court_quote": "On the contrary, the material available on record including the admitted facts amply goes to show that the husband of the petitioner died because of excessive torture meted out to him by the respondent Nos. 7 to 10. Now the question arises as to the quantum of compensation.",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC found custodial death due to excessive torture by police, awarded Rs. 1,50,000 compensation and Rs. 5,000 costs, directing State to consider criminal prosecution.",
 "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": "1997-05-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 155,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1998 ACJ 981, 1997 (45) BLJR 1365",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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