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 "display_title": "Shahura Man v. State of Punjab and Others",
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 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Amritsar",
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 "city_town": "Shahura",
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 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Shahura Man v. State of Punjab and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1204 of 1997",
 "citation": "(2002) CriLJ 1082; (2001) 4 RCR (Criminal) 761",
 "judges": [
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 "judgment_date": "2001-09-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1988-02-13",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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  "IPC 148",
  "IPC 149",
  "IPC 224",
  "Arms Act s.25",
  "TADA Act s.3",
  "TADA Act s.4",
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shahura man"
  }
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 "anonymised": false,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/176495/balbir-kaur-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-and-others-respondent-2/",
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  "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/637734/balbir-kaur-vs-state-punjab-ors"
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 "summary": "Add the recorded police case: arrest in FIR 21/1988, disclosure statement, escape during arms-recovery escort, FIR 23/1988 s.224, proclaimed offender, exoneration in DC and SP inquiries (paras 2, 4, 7). Drop the false 'police version is not recorded' sentence.",
 "summary_verified": "Add the recorded police case: arrest in FIR 21/1988, disclosure statement, escape during arms-recovery escort, FIR 23/1988 s.224, proclaimed offender, exoneration in DC and SP inquiries (paras 2, 4, 7). Drop the false 'police version is not recorded' sentence.",
 "court_quote": "Preponderance of probability is in favour of the view that if he had escaped from police custody on 13.2.88, he would have returned to his family after the State terrorism had ceased.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment text verified; custodial-death inference with Rs 1.5 lakh compensation against State.",
 "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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   "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2001-09-26",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2002) CriLJ 1082; (2001) 4 RCR (Criminal) 761",
   "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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