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 "record_id": "CW-2001-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0935",
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 "display_title": "Girwan Woman v. State of U.P. and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Girwan Woman v. State of U.P. and Others",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Banda",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Girwan",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Girwan, Banda",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Girwan Woman v. State of U.P. and Others",
 "case_number": "C.M.W.P. No. 13814 of 1998",
 "citation": "(2001) 1 AWC 839 : (2001) CriLJ 2090",
 "judges": [
  "Binod Kumar Roy",
  "D. R. Chaudhary"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2001-02-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1994-04-12",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "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 304",
  "IPC 218",
  "IPC 193",
  "IPC 201",
  "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3(1)",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Police Station Girwan, Banda",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station Girwan, Banda"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Girwan, Banda",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Police Station Girwan, Banda"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 42,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Girwan man, age 42"
  }
 ],
 "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/285868/smt-chandania-vs-state-of-up-and-others/",
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 "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 7-2-2001) held that the beating of a Girwan man, aged 42, by the Station House Officer and head constable of Police Station Girwan, Banda, on 12 April 1994, causing head injuries that led to his death on 14 April 1994, breached his fundamental right to life under Article 21. The court found the head injuries were apparently on account of custodial violence in the police station and applied the strict-liability principle in Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu. It ordered the State to pay the widow Rs.1,50,000 compensation within three months (in addition to Rs.10,000 ex gratia already paid), with liberty to be indemnified by the wrongdoers, without prejudice to the pending criminal trial. The court also directed the State to arrest the two absconding policemen and inquire into salary payments to them with disciplinary action against those responsible. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 7-2-2001) held that the beating of a Girwan man, aged 42, by the Station House Officer and head constable of Police Station Girwan, Banda, on 12 April 1994, causing head injuries that led to his death on 14 April 1994, breached his fundamental right to life under Article 21. The court found the head injuries were apparently on account of custodial violence in the police station and applied the strict-liability principle in Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu. It ordered the State to pay the widow Rs.1,50,000 compensation within three months (in addition to Rs.10,000 ex gratia already paid), with liberty to be indemnified by the wrongdoers, without prejudice to the pending criminal trial. The court also directed the State to arrest the two absconding policemen and inquire into salary payments to them with disciplinary action against those responsible.",
 "court_quote": "The injuries on head are apparently on account of custodial violence in the police station. From the materials on the record, this much is clear to us that a Girwan man's fundamental right to have liberty of life was breached by the S.H.O. and the head constable of the police station concerned.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held Article 21 breach by named SHO and head constable; Rs.1.5 lakh compensation ordered.",
 "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": "2001-02-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Allahabad High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Allahabad High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2001) 1 AWC 839 : (2001) CriLJ 2090",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": [
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  }
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-1-002",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}