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 "record_id": "CW-1997-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0969",
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 "display_title": "Sasaram Man v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sasaram Man v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Rohtas",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sasaram",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sasaram jail escort party (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96)",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sasaram Man v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "Cr.W.J.C. No. 859 of 1996",
 "citation": "(1997) 2 BLJR 1477 : (1997) 1 PLJR 1022",
 "judges": [
  "Choudhary S.N. Mishra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1997-05-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1996-10-14",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "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. 226",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 32 (discussed)",
  "IPC 302/307/324/34 + Arms Act s.27 (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96 against private accused, as recorded)"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": null,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 23,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sasaram man, age 23"
  }
 ],
 "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/741060/ajmeri-khatoon-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/ajmeri-khatoon-vs-state-of-bihar-and-ors-on-14-may-1997"
 ],
 "summary": "The Patna High Court allowed the widow's writ after undertrial a Sasaram man, aged 23, was shot dead by assailants while handcuffed in a police escort at the Sasaram court premises on 14 October 1996. The court held the State and its instrumentalities responsible for the negligent failure to protect a prisoner in police custody, following Rudul Sah and Nilabati Behera. It directed the State to deposit Rs 1 lakh with the Registrar General within six weeks, Rs 50,000 payable to the widow and Rs 50,000 held in fixed deposit until her minor daughter attains majority. The killers were private accused (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96); the police liability was custodial failure to protect. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court allowed the widow's writ after undertrial a Sasaram man, aged 23, was shot dead by assailants while handcuffed in a police escort at the Sasaram court premises on 14 October 1996. The court held the State and its instrumentalities responsible for the negligent failure to protect a prisoner in police custody, following Rudul Sah and Nilabati Behera. It directed the State to deposit Rs 1 lakh with the Registrar General within six weeks, Rs 50,000 payable to the widow and Rs 50,000 held in fixed deposit until her minor daughter attains majority. The killers were private accused (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96); the police liability was custodial failure to protect.",
 "court_quote": "The husband of the petitioner was killed under handcuffs while he was in police custody. In such situation the State has to answer for every unlawful and negligent act committed by its instrumentilities and the State and its instrumentalities are to be held responsible for such act on their part.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; Rs 1 lakh compensation for failure to protect handcuffed undertrial killed in police custody.",
 "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": "1997-05-14",
   "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 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1997) 2 BLJR 1477 : (1997) 1 PLJR 1022",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "officers"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-100-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}