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 "display_title": "Lakhanpur Man v. State of M.P. and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Lakhanpur Man v. State of M.P. and Others",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Surguja",
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 "city_town": "Lakhanpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Lakhanpur",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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 "case_title": "Lakhanpur Man v. State of M.P. and Others",
 "case_number": "Miscellaneous Petition No. 1808 of 1994",
 "citation": "(1998) 2 JLJ 86",
 "judges": [
  "A.K. Mathur",
  "Dipak Misra"
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 "judgment_date": "1997-10-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1994-01-08",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance",
 "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance",
 "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
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   "unit": "Police Station Lakhanpur",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Lakhanpur"
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   "display": "Constable, Police Station Lakhanpur"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Lakhanpur man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/576712/jagatdhari-vs-state-of-mp-and-others/",
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  "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=417991785000&title=jagatdhari-vs-state-of-m-p"
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 "summary": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus petition by Jagatdhari for his son-in-law a Lakhanpur man, taken in a police jeep to Police Station Lakhanpur on 8 January 1994 and never seen alive since (Ambikapur is now in Chhattisgarh). The Court noted the SP's admission of no Rojnamcha entry, the AIG report holding the Lakhanpur action illegal, and the District Judge's enquiry finding a Lakhanpur man never found alive. It held the State responsible for the illegal detention, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation to a Lakhanpur man's wife [name withheld], and ordered a departmental enquiry against the Lakhanpur officials posted at the relevant time. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus petition by Jagatdhari for his son-in-law a Lakhanpur man, taken in a police jeep to Police Station Lakhanpur on 8 January 1994 and never seen alive since (Ambikapur is now in Chhattisgarh). The Court noted the SP's admission of no Rojnamcha entry, the AIG report holding the Lakhanpur action illegal, and the District Judge's enquiry finding a Lakhanpur man never found alive. It held the State responsible for the illegal detention, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation to a Lakhanpur man's wife [name withheld], and ordered a departmental enquiry against the Lakhanpur officials posted at the relevant time.",
 "court_quote": "In these circumstances, we direct a sum of Rs. 50,000/- should be given to wife of a Lakhanpur man as a compensation and the State Government shall initiate a departmental enquiry against the concerned officials who were posted there at the relevant time as they had illegally detained a Lakhanpur man at Police Station Lakhanpur.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held State liable for illegal detention/disappearance; Rs 50,000 compensation + enquiry ordered.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Other",
   "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": "1997-10-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1998) 2 JLJ 86",
   "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",
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   "result": "holds",
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