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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0010",
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 "display_title": "Rajahmundry Man (Rajahmundry Man) vs [name withheld] and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rajahmundry Man (Rajahmundry Man) vs [name withheld] and Ors.",
 "state": "Andhra Pradesh",
 "district": "East Godavari",
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 "city_town": "Rajahmundry",
 "police_station_or_unit": "II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry",
 "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Rajahmundry Man (Rajahmundry Man) vs [name withheld] and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 19666 of 1999 and 3785 of 2000",
 "citation": "2002 (6) ALT 46, 2002 (2) ALT (Cri) 518",
 "judges": [
  "B. Sudershan Reddy"
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 "judgment_date": "2002-10-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1999-08-08",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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   "display": "Police Constable, II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Head Constable, II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rajahmundry man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 75000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1296773/",
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 "summary": "The High Court found that police personnel of II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry dragged a Rajahmundry man from his house on 8 August 1999, illegally detained him, and beat him with lathis for about four hours in the station causing multiple injuries. Accepting the enquiry report of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, which examined 23 witnesses and rejected the officers alibi defence, the Court held the torture violated the petitioner fundamental right under Article 21 regardless of his alleged bootlegging record. The Court directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 compensation plus Rs 2,500 costs to the Legal Services Authority, to fix individual responsibility and prosecute the guilty personnel, with liberty to recover the amount from them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court found that police personnel of II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry dragged a Rajahmundry man from his house on 8 August 1999, illegally detained him, and beat him with lathis for about four hours in the station causing multiple injuries. Accepting the enquiry report of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, which examined 23 witnesses and rejected the officers alibi defence, the Court held the torture violated the petitioner fundamental right under Article 21 regardless of his alleged bootlegging record. The Court directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 compensation plus Rs 2,500 costs to the Legal Services Authority, to fix individual responsibility and prosecute the guilty personnel, with liberty to recover the amount from them.",
 "court_quote": "In the instant case, we have no doubt whatsoever that the respondents-police personnel are jointly and severally responsible for the torture of the petitioner in the police station resulting in violation of his fundamental right guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India.",
 "court_quote_para": "34",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Single Judge held II Town PS Rajahmundry police jointly and severally responsible for custodial torture of petitioner and awarded Rs 75,000 compensation plus Rs 2,500 costs.",
 "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"
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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": "2002-10-03",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 75,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2002 (6) ALT 46, 2002 (2) ALT (Cri) 518",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-010",
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 "service": "police",
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