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 "record_id": "CW-1998-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0702",
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 "display_title": "Shahapur Woman vs The State of Maharashtra and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Shahapur Woman vs The State of Maharashtra and Another",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Thane",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Shahapur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Shahapur Police Station / Vasind Outpost, Thane",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Shahapur Woman vs The State of Maharashtra and Another",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "1998 Cri LJ 1505; 1998(2) Mh LJ 410; (1999) 1 Bom LR 449",
 "judges": [
  "A.P. Shah",
  "S.S. Parkar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1998-01-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1998,
 "incident_date": "1997-06-16",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "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 330",
  "IPC 306",
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Shahapur Police Station, Thane",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Shahapur Police Station, Thane"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Vasind Outpost, Shahapur Police Station",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Vasind Outpost, Shahapur Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Shahapur Police Station, Thane",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Shahapur Police Station, Thane"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 21,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Shahapur man, age 21"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1172230/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. A Shahapur man, aged 21, was arrested on 10 June 1997 in a robbery case and remanded to police custody, where his wife alleged he was subjected to third-degree torture from 11 to 16 June 1997 until he died on the night of 16 June. Police claimed he strangled himself with a floor mat, but a second post-mortem ordered by the JMFC contradicted suicide, and the State's affidavit almost conceded torture in custody. Offences under Sections 330, 306 and 323 read with Section 34 IPC were registered against the three named officers. The Court held the death a custodial death caused by police torture, awarded Rs. 1,50,000 compensation plus Rs. 10,000 costs recoverable from the erring officials, and directed their suspension pending criminal trial or departmental enquiry.",
 "summary_verified": "A Shahapur man, aged 21, was arrested on 10 June 1997 in a robbery case and remanded to police custody, where his wife alleged he was subjected to third-degree torture from 11 to 16 June 1997 until he died on the night of 16 June. Police claimed he strangled himself with a floor mat, but a second post-mortem ordered by the JMFC contradicted suicide, and the State's affidavit almost conceded torture in custody. Offences under Sections 330, 306 and 323 read with Section 34 IPC were registered against the three named officers. The Court held the death a custodial death caused by police torture, awarded Rs. 1,50,000 compensation plus Rs. 10,000 costs recoverable from the erring officials, and directed their suspension pending criminal trial or departmental enquiry.",
 "court_quote": "In the affidavit it has been almost conceded that the deceased was tortured while in the police custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; custodial torture death held proved, Rs. 1.5 lakh plus suspension of 3 officers.",
 "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": "1998-01-15",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay 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 Cri LJ 1505; 1998(2) Mh LJ 410; (1999) 1 Bom LR 449",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1172230/",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP4-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}