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 "display_title": "Aurangabad Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
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 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar",
 "district_at_time": "Aurangabad",
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 "police_station_or_unit": "Kranti Chowk Police Station (arrest by City Chowk Police)",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "bench": "Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "Aurangabad Man v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
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 "citation": "2003(2) Bom CR 215; 2002(4) Mh LJ 37",
 "judges": [
  "S.S. Parkar",
  "D.S. Zoting"
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 "judgment_date": "2002-02-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1994-11-08",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art 21"
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   "display": "Head Constable, Kranti Chowk Police Station, Aurangabad"
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   "display": "Police personnel, Kranti Chowk / City Chowk / Osmanpura Police Stations"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 32,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Aurangabad man, age 32"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1880596/",
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that an Aurangabad man, arrested on 30-10-1994 and found dead in the Kranti Chowk lock-up on the night of 8/9 November 1994 after about ten days in custody, died a homicidal custodial death following torture. The court rejected the police suicide-by-hanging story as physically impossible and a concocted cover-up, distrusted the CID inquiry as disguising police sins, and called the inquest dishonest. Holding the State liable in public law, it awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation (Rs 50,000 cash to the widow, Rs 1.5 lakh in fixed deposit for the children) plus Rs 5,000 costs. It further directed the CBI to register a case, investigate and prosecute those responsible, and ordered disciplinary proceedings against them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) held that an Aurangabad man, arrested on 30-10-1994 and found dead in the Kranti Chowk lock-up on the night of 8/9 November 1994 after about ten days in custody, died a homicidal custodial death following torture. The court rejected the police suicide-by-hanging story as physically impossible and a concocted cover-up, distrusted the CID inquiry as disguising police sins, and called the inquest dishonest. Holding the State liable in public law, it awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation (Rs 50,000 cash to the widow, Rs 1.5 lakh in fixed deposit for the children) plus Rs 5,000 costs. It further directed the CBI to register a case, investigate and prosecute those responsible, and ordered disciplinary proceedings against them.",
 "court_quote": "This is especially so when we are not in doubt that from the facts and circumstances of the case and the false story attempted to be put up by the police, the police alone are responsible for the death of the deceased while he was in their custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "24",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC (Aurangabad) held homicidal custodial death; Rs 2L compensation + CBI probe ordered.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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 "allegations": [
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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": "2002-02-13",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2003(2) Bom CR 215; 2002(4) Mh LJ 37",
   "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)",
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   "corrections_applied": []
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