{ "record_id": "CW-1999-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0968", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Palamu Man v. Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Palamu Man v. Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": "Palamau, Bihar", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Panki Police Station (Pipratand outpost), Sadar B Circle, Daltonganj", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": "Ranchi", "case_title": "Palamu Man v. Union of India and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 2437 of 1998 (R)", "citation": "(2000) 1 PLJR 672", "judges": [ "M.Y. Eqbal" ], "judgment_date": "1999-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1998-07-18", "incident_year": 1998, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 22(1)", "IPC 220", "IPC 330", "IPC 331", "CrPC 82", "CrPC 83" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Sadar B Circle, Daltonganj, Bihar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sadar B Circle, Daltonganj, Bihar Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector, Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "CRPF personnel with Assistant Commandant (raid party)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, CRPF personnel with Assistant Commandant (raid party)" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Palamu man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772163/mostt-ahulash-devi-vs-union-of-india-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e12e4e607dba3896622fb7" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) allowed the widow's writ, holding that her husband [name withheld] died in custody on 18 July 1998 from a brutal assault by a police party led by DySP [name withheld]. The court found that the joint Bihar police-BMP-CRPF party had raided the house without warrant, beaten the deceased with dandas and rifle butts, and failed to follow the D.K. Basu safeguards, rejecting the police claim that he was a wanted MCC activist injured while fleeing. It directed the CBI to hold a thorough enquiry and institute criminal prosecution against the officers involved in causing the death by torture. The court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation to the widow, to be paid equally by the Central and State Governments within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) allowed the widow's writ, holding that her husband [name withheld] died in custody on 18 July 1998 from a brutal assault by a police party led by DySP [name withheld]. The court found that the joint Bihar police-BMP-CRPF party had raided the house without warrant, beaten the deceased with dandas and rifle butts, and failed to follow the D.K. Basu safeguards, rejecting the police claim that he was a wanted MCC activist injured while fleeing. It directed the CBI to hold a thorough enquiry and institute criminal prosecution against the officers involved in causing the death by torture. The court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation to the widow, to be paid equally by the Central and State Governments within two months.", "court_quote": "It is prima facie evident that the brutal and inhuman act of the police personnels has resulted in the death of the deceased.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; Rs 2 lakh compensation plus CBI enquiry and prosecution for custodial death by police torture.", "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": "1999-11-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2000) 1 PLJR 672", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772163/mostt-ahulash-devi-vs-union-of-india-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e12e4e607dba3896622fb7", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-80" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-100-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }