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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0624",
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 "display_title": "D.G. & I.G. of Police and Others v. Prem Sagar and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "D.G. & I.G. of Police and Others v. Prem Sagar and Another",
 "state": "Andhra Pradesh",
 "district": "Kurnool",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kurnool",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "D.G. & I.G. of Police and Others v. Prem Sagar and Another",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(1999) 5 SCC 700",
 "judges": [
  "G.B. Pattanaik",
  "N. Santosh Hegde"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1999-04-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1999,
 "incident_date": "1992-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Andhra Pradesh Police",
   "role": "unclear",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "display": "Police personnel, Andhra Pradesh Police"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kurnool man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 20000,
 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the State appeals, affirming the Andhra Pradesh High Court direction to pay Rs 20,000 compensation for the one-month illegal and unauthorised detention of a Kurnool man His relatives filed habeas corpus on 15 October 1992 alleging detention since 26 September 1992; police claimed arrest only on 28 October 1992, but the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, inquiring with witnesses, found much earlier arrest and continuous police custody till production before the AJM First Class, Kurnool, though the responsible officer could not be located. The Court found sufficient material for the conclusion that the detention was wholly illegal and declined interference. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the State appeals, affirming the Andhra Pradesh High Court direction to pay Rs 20,000 compensation for the one-month illegal and unauthorised detention of a Kurnool man His relatives filed habeas corpus on 15 October 1992 alleging detention since 26 September 1992; police claimed arrest only on 28 October 1992, but the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, inquiring with witnesses, found much earlier arrest and continuous police custody till production before the AJM First Class, Kurnool, though the responsible officer could not be located. The Court found sufficient material for the conclusion that the detention was wholly illegal and declined interference.",
 "court_quote": "We do not find any error committed by the High Court in accepting the report of the learned Sessions Judge and in coming to the conclusion that a Kurnool man was illegally detained for a period of one month and for such illegal detention awarding compensation to the tune of Rs 20,000.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC affirmed Rs 20K for one-month illegal detention of a Kurnool man; State appeals dismissed.",
 "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"
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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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1999-04-13",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 20,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1999) 5 SCC 700",
   "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",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-054",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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