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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0171",
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 "display_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Man vs State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Ranchi",
 "district_at_time": "Ranchi",
 "city_town": "Ranchi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 3088 of 1996(R)",
 "citation": "2003 CriLJ 3803",
 "judges": [
  "Tapen Sen"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-06-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "1990-07-27",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "IPC 395",
  "IPC 412",
  "Arms Act"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 28,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ranchi man, age 28"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/520221/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. A Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man was apprehended along with two others by Jagannathpur police on 27 July 1990 following an alleged dacoity, and was brutally assaulted with rifle butts and iron rods in a police jeep, resulting in his custodial death. The trial court convicted the accused police personnel in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993. On a writ petition by the deceased's widow, the Jharkhand High Court held that the factum of brutal custodial killing in violation of Article 21 was shocking beyond words and directed the State to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the widow and three minor children. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man was apprehended along with two others by Jagannathpur police on 27 July 1990 following an alleged dacoity, and was brutally assaulted with rifle butts and iron rods in a police jeep, resulting in his custodial death. The trial court convicted the accused police personnel in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993. On a writ petition by the deceased's widow, the Jharkhand High Court held that the factum of brutal custodial killing in violation of Article 21 was shocking beyond words and directed the State to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the widow and three minor children.",
 "court_quote": "Consequently, it was held that the charges levelled against all the nine police personnels were proved and they were held guilty and keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, the learned Court sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of ten years and also to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/-.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to widow and children for brutal custodial death of a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man by Jagannathpur 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": "2003-06-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2003 CriLJ 3803",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/520221/",
   "link_checked": null
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}