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 "record_id": "CW-1998-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0136",
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 "display_title": "State of Gujarat vs Himatnagar Man and Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Gujarat vs Himatnagar Man and Anr.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Sabarkantha",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Himatnagar (Raigadh Outpost)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Raigadh Outpost, Himatnagar",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Gujarat vs Himatnagar Man and Anr.",
 "case_number": "First Appeal against judgment dated 03.09.1982 in Special Civil Suit No. 33 of 1979, Civil Judge (S.D.), Himatnagar",
 "citation": "II(2001)ACC 426",
 "judges": [
  "R. K. Abichandani"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1998-12-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1998,
 "incident_date": "1976-04-22",
 "incident_year": 1976,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 326"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Raigadh Outpost, Himatnagar, Sabarkantha",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.32,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.61,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Raigadh Outpost, Himatnagar, Sabarkantha"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Himatnagar man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 198000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/503689/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/455032/state-of-gujarat-vs-govindbhai-jakhubhai-and-another/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 1,98,000 with 6% interest awarded to contractor [name withheld], whose right leg was amputated above the knee after on-duty Raigadh Outpost constable shot him in the thigh with his service rifle on 22 April 1976 for protesting the manhandling of his truck driver. The Court held the firing illegal, wrongful and unauthorised, committed during the course of employment, rendering the State vicariously liable and violating the victim's Article 21 right to life. It recorded that the constable had been tried under Section 307 IPC and convicted by the High Court under Section 326 IPC with six months' RI in Criminal Appeal No. 59 of 1978, a sentence he admitted in evidence to having undergone. (Re-normalised from the 1980 conviction entry to this verified 1998 compensation judgment.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 1,98,000 with 6% interest awarded to contractor [name withheld], whose right leg was amputated above the knee after on-duty Raigadh Outpost constable shot him in the thigh with his service rifle on 22 April 1976 for protesting the manhandling of his truck driver. The Court held the firing illegal, wrongful and unauthorised, committed during the course of employment, rendering the State vicariously liable and violating the victim's Article 21 right to life. It recorded that the constable had been tried under Section 307 IPC and convicted by the High Court under Section 326 IPC with six months' RI in Criminal Appeal No. 59 of 1978, a sentence he admitted in evidence to having undergone. (Re-normalised from the 1980 conviction entry to this verified 1998 compensation judgment.)",
 "court_quote": "The facts which are established in the case clearly show that the respondent No. 2, during the course of his employment as a Constable, had on 22-4-1976, when the respondent No. 1 had come to the Police Outpost, wrongfully and without any justification whatsoever, wounded him by a gunshot which resulted in amputation of his right leg.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Re-normalised to verified 1998 HC judgment upholding Rs 1.98 lakh compensation; 1980 Sec 326 conviction recital confirmed within it.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1998-12-22",
   "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 198,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "II(2001)ACC 426",
   "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": [
    "court_quote"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/503689/",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/455032/state-of-gujarat-vs-govindbhai-jakhubhai-and-another/",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GUJARA-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}