{
 "record_id": "CW-2000-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0684",
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 "display_title": "Belagavi Man and Others vs State of Karnataka and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Man and Others vs State of Karnataka and Others",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "district_at_time": "Belgaum",
 "city_town": "Belagavi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Belgaum Central Prison / police custody",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Belagavi Man and Others vs State of Karnataka and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition under Article 226",
 "citation": "2000 Cri LJ 4408; (2001) ILR Kant 1531",
 "judges": [
  "H. L. Dattu"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2000-09-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2000,
 "incident_date": "1992-07-07",
 "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": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/734486/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Belagavi man, an under-trial auto driver transferred from Bangalore to Belgaum Central Prison, sustained injuries in custody on 4 July 1992 and died in hospital on 7 July 1992. The authorities claimed a jail-break attempt led to a mild lathi-charge and stampede injuring 62 prisoners; the family alleged brutal beating and torture in police custody. Justice Dattu found the ADGP (Prisons) enquiry report a farce that ignored uniform contusions and a fatal cervical-spine injury consistent with deliberate beating while in custody. Citing Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Kewal Pati, the Court held he died in police custody because of torture by brutal beating, allowed the petition, awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation, and directed the State to appoint an investigating agency to fix responsibility of the police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Belagavi man, an under-trial auto driver transferred from Bangalore to Belgaum Central Prison, sustained injuries in custody on 4 July 1992 and died in hospital on 7 July 1992. The authorities claimed a jail-break attempt led to a mild lathi-charge and stampede injuring 62 prisoners; the family alleged brutal beating and torture in police custody. Justice Dattu found the ADGP (Prisons) enquiry report a farce that ignored uniform contusions and a fatal cervical-spine injury consistent with deliberate beating while in custody. Citing Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Kewal Pati, the Court held he died in police custody because of torture by brutal beating, allowed the petition, awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation, and directed the State to appoint an investigating agency to fix responsibility of the police personnel.",
 "court_quote": "the only inference that can be drawn is that the petitioner's husband died while he was in police custody because of torture and injury caused by police authority by their brutal beating, may be with a wooden rod.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held under-trial beaten to death in custody; Rs.3 lakh compensation plus probe to fix police responsibility.",
 "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": "2000-09-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2000 Cri LJ 4408; (2001) ILR Kant 1531",
   "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",
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/734486/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP10-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}