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 "display_title": "Malkapur Man vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
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 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Buldhana",
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 "city_town": "Malkapur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station (Rural), Malkapur",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "bench": "Nagpur",
 "case_title": "Malkapur Man vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 312 of 1999",
 "citation": "(2002) 104 BOMLR 34; (2001) 4 MhLj 601",
 "judges": [
  "J.N. Patel, J.",
  "P.V. Hardas, J."
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 "judgment_date": "2001-07-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1999-10-24",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.226",
  "CrPC 107",
  "CrPC 110",
  "IPC 353"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Malkapur man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 15000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1562282/",
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that journalist Surendra Taori of Malkapur was mercilessly beaten by police officers in Rural Police Station custody on 24 October 1999, sustaining serious injuries including to his right eye, after reporting on police malpractice. The court further held he was illegally detained from 23 to 30 October 1999 under Chapter VIII CrPC proceedings before a police officer acting as Special Executive Magistrate, without following ss.111 and 116 CrPC and in violation of Articles 14 and 21. It directed the State to pay Rs. 15,000 compensation plus Rs. 5,000 costs within four weeks and to take suitable action against the guilty officers (respondent Nos. 3 to 6), with liberty to recover the sum from those found responsible. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held that journalist Surendra Taori of Malkapur was mercilessly beaten by police officers in Rural Police Station custody on 24 October 1999, sustaining serious injuries including to his right eye, after reporting on police malpractice. The court further held he was illegally detained from 23 to 30 October 1999 under Chapter VIII CrPC proceedings before a police officer acting as Special Executive Magistrate, without following ss.111 and 116 CrPC and in violation of Articles 14 and 21. It directed the State to pay Rs. 15,000 compensation plus Rs. 5,000 costs within four weeks and to take suitable action against the guilty officers (respondent Nos. 3 to 6), with liberty to recover the sum from those found responsible.",
 "court_quote": "We have already come to the conclusion that the petitioner was tortured in Police Custody which was illegal, causing him serious injuries and further came to be detained under the impugned order illegally and unauthorisedly, without following the procedure provided under Sections 111 and 116 of the Criminal Procedure Code.",
 "court_quote_para": "20",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC found custodial torture + illegal detention; Rs 15,000 compensation.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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": "2001-07-27",
   "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 15,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2002) 104 BOMLR 34; (2001) 4 MhLj 601",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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