{
 "record_id": "CW-2002-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0109",
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 "display_title": "Rajouri Garden Man vs Union of India and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rajouri Garden Man vs Union of India and Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "West Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Rajouri Garden",
 "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Rajouri Garden",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Rajouri Garden Man vs Union of India and Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "AIR 2003 Delhi 50; 100 (2002) DLT 721",
 "judges": [
  "S.B. Sinha",
  "A.K. Sikri"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2002-09-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1992-12-10",
 "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": [
  "MV Act 1988 s.185",
  "Constitution Art 21",
  "Constitution Art 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "P.S. Rajouri Garden",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.93,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.03,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, P.S. Rajouri Garden"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "P.S. Rajouri Garden",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:named_only",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:no",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no",
    "redteam:escort_no_finding_plus_name_collision"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.04,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, P.S. Rajouri Garden"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rajouri Garden man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1930290/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Delhi High Court held that the Delhi Police violated a Rajouri Garden man's fundamental right to life under Article 21, awarding his widow [name withheld] 2 lakh in public-law damages. Sharma, arrested under Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act after a scooter accident on 10 December 1992 left him with a bleeding head wound, was kept in the Rajouri Garden lock-up overnight; when he complained of severe headache at 12:30 AM he was shown to the same doctor but neither hospitalised nor treated further, and he died that afternoon after being bailed out in the morning. The Court held the police failed in their statutory duty of care toward an injured arrestee who ought to have been hospitalised or released, and left the widow free to claim further damages by civil suit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court held that the Delhi Police violated a Rajouri Garden man's fundamental right to life under Article 21, awarding his widow [name withheld] 2 lakh in public-law damages. Sharma, arrested under Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act after a scooter accident on 10 December 1992 left him with a bleeding head wound, was kept in the Rajouri Garden lock-up overnight; when he complained of severe headache at 12:30 AM he was shown to the same doctor but neither hospitalised nor treated further, and he died that afternoon after being bailed out in the morning. The Court held the police failed in their statutory duty of care toward an injured arrestee who ought to have been hospitalised or released, and left the widow free to claim further damages by civil suit.",
 "court_quote": "Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of this case, we are of the opinion that it is a fit case where the petitioner has been able to establish that there has been a violation of the deceased's Fundamental Right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India and, thus, damages in public law remedy can be awarded. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of this case, we are of the opinion that the respondent should pay a sum of Rs. 2 lacs to the petitioner herein with the liberty to her to file an appropriate suit for damages, if she is so advised.",
 "court_quote_para": "35",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Delhi HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; Art.21 violation + public-law damages for custodial death (operative figure per reported citation).",
 "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": "2002-09-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR 2003 Delhi 50; 100 (2002) DLT 721",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1930290/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "DELHI-018",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}