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 "record_id": "CW-2002-0014",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0742",
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 "display_title": "Golhaura Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Golhaura Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Siddharthnagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Golhaura",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Golhaura Police Station, Siddharthnagar",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Golhaura Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal M.W.P. No. 1754 of 1999",
 "citation": "(2002) 07 AHC CK 0152; 2002 CriLJ 4546",
 "judges": [
  "S.R. Singh",
  "R.K. Dash"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2002-07-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1998-10-16",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "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": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 384",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 504",
  "IPC 506",
  "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constables and officers on lock-up duty",
   "unit": "Golhaura Police Station, Siddharthnagar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constables and officers on lock-up duty, Golhaura Police Station, Siddharthnagar"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Golhaura man, age 27"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 250000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/346569/siddhu-and-others-vs-state-of-up-and-others/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Golhaura man, aged 27, was arrested on 14 October 1998 in a kidnapping case and kept in the Golhaura police lock-up for three days, where the family alleged he was beaten to death. Police claimed he hanged himself, obtained a post-mortem report of hanging and cremated the body; an FIR for murder was later registered against police personnel on a Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. direction. The Division Bench rejected the suicide plea as too big a pill to be swallowed, held the police officers and the autopsy doctor acted hand in glove to fabricate the post-mortem report, and found D.K. Basu safeguards violated. It allowed the writ petition, directed Rs. 2,50,000 compensation (Rs. 1,50,000 to parents, Rs. 1,00,000 to the widow) recoverable from the responsible police officers, and left criminal liability to the pending CBCID murder investigation.",
 "summary_verified": "A Golhaura man, aged 27, was arrested on 14 October 1998 in a kidnapping case and kept in the Golhaura police lock-up for three days, where the family alleged he was beaten to death. Police claimed he hanged himself, obtained a post-mortem report of hanging and cremated the body; an FIR for murder was later registered against police personnel on a Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. direction. The Division Bench rejected the suicide plea as too big a pill to be swallowed, held the police officers and the autopsy doctor acted hand in glove to fabricate the post-mortem report, and found D.K. Basu safeguards violated. It allowed the writ petition, directed Rs. 2,50,000 compensation (Rs. 1,50,000 to parents, Rs. 1,00,000 to the widow) recoverable from the responsible police officers, and left criminal liability to the pending CBCID murder investigation.",
 "court_quote": "The aforesaid amount may be recovered by the State from the concerned police officers responsible for the death of the deceased in the police lock-up.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; lock-up torture death held proved, Rs. 2.5 lakh compensation recoverable from police.",
 "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": "2002-07-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Allahabad High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Allahabad High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2002) 07 AHC CK 0152; 2002 CriLJ 4546",
   "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",
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}