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 "display_title": "In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)",
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 "district": "Jehanabad",
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 "city_town": "Senari village",
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 "case_title": "In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)",
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 "citation": "2003 CriLJ 1067",
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  "Aftab Alam"
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 "judgment_date": "2002-05-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "2000-07-28",
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 42,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 265000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1456228/",
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court took suo-motu notice of a Dainik Jagran report that a police party searching for Mianpur-carnage accused had beaten villagers at Senari, Jehanabad, on 28 July 2000. On the District Judge's two inquiry reports, State doctors' injury reports and sealed photographs, the court held it established that police had indiscriminately beaten women with rifles, batons and lathis, rejecting the self-defence claim as a clear human-rights violation. It ordered Rs 10,000 each to the 11 victims with grievous hurt and Rs 5,000 each to the 31 with simple injuries (Rs 2,65,000 total), payable via the District Magistrate after verification by a DM-District Judge board. The court sent the entire record to the Human Rights Commission. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court took suo-motu notice of a Dainik Jagran report that a police party searching for Mianpur-carnage accused had beaten villagers at Senari, Jehanabad, on 28 July 2000. On the District Judge's two inquiry reports, State doctors' injury reports and sealed photographs, the court held it established that police had indiscriminately beaten women with rifles, batons and lathis, rejecting the self-defence claim as a clear human-rights violation. It ordered Rs 10,000 each to the 11 victims with grievous hurt and Rs 5,000 each to the 31 with simple injuries (Rs 2,65,000 total), payable via the District Magistrate after verification by a DM-District Judge board. The court sent the entire record to the Human Rights Commission.",
 "court_quote": "It was violence at the hands of the police wherein the women were beaten.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Suo-motu writ; graded compensation to 42 villagers for established police beating of women during search.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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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   "date": "2002-05-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 265,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2003 CriLJ 1067",
   "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",
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   "result": "holds",
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