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 "record_id": "CW-1997-0019",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Jamnagar Man vs State of Gujarat & Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jamnagar Man vs State of Gujarat & Anr.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Jamnagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Jamnagar",
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 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jamnagar Man vs State of Gujarat & Anr.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(1998) 1 GLR 61",
 "judges": [
  "N. N. Mathur"
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 "judgment_date": "1997-10-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1992-01-08",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "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": [
  "IPC 323",
  "CrPC 154",
  "CrPC 155",
  "CrPC 156",
  "CrPC 157",
  "CrPC 174"
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   "rank": "District Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Jamnagar police",
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   "display": "District Superintendent of Police, Jamnagar police"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamnagar man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamnagar resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamnagar resident"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/243728/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. On 8-1-1992, Jamnagar police picked up petty trader [name withheld] with a Jamnagar resident and a Jamnagar resident for interrogation, and DSP called all three into his chamber at about 9 p.m. and beat them with a big stick, a Jamnagar man severely on the chest, stomach and other parts of the body; a Jamnagar man died on the way to hospital. The post-mortem disclosed ante-mortem injuries and a DGP (Crime) inquiry found the custodial-torture allegation true, though the panel attributed death to cardiac arrest. The Gujarat High Court held the death was prima facie traceable to custodial torture in gross violation of Article 21, awarded Rs.1.5 lakh interim compensation to the widow, ordered the dropped departmental enquiry against the DSP to proceed, and directed the police to complete investigation and file a report within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 8-1-1992, Jamnagar police picked up petty trader [name withheld] with a Jamnagar resident and a Jamnagar resident for interrogation, and DSP called all three into his chamber at about 9 p.m. and beat them with a big stick, a Jamnagar man severely on the chest, stomach and other parts of the body; a Jamnagar man died on the way to hospital. The post-mortem disclosed ante-mortem injuries and a DGP (Crime) inquiry found the custodial-torture allegation true, though the panel attributed death to cardiac arrest. The Gujarat High Court held the death was prima facie traceable to custodial torture in gross violation of Article 21, awarded Rs.1.5 lakh interim compensation to the widow, ordered the dropped departmental enquiry against the DSP to proceed, and directed the police to complete investigation and file a report within two months.",
 "court_quote": "As we have found that prima facie, the death of a Jamnagar man is traceable to the custodial torture, it would be just and proper to award suitable compensation as interim measure to Smt. Ushaben Punjani, widow of the deceased [name withheld].",
 "court_quote_para": "19",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Custodial death prima facie traced to DSP's beating; Rs.1.5L interim compensation with probe directions.",
 "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": "1997-10-17",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1998) 1 GLR 61",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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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",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-46-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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