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 "display_title": "Soro Man vs State Of Orissa And Ors.",
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 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Balasore",
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 "court": "Orissa High Court",
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 "case_title": "Soro Man vs State Of Orissa And Ors.",
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 "citation": "2003 (II) OLR 151; 96 (2003) CLT 261; II (2004) ACC 728",
 "judges": [
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 "judgment_date": "2003-06-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1997-03-22",
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 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Article 21",
  "Article 226"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Soro man"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 10000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/376706/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. Petitioner a Soro man visited Soro Police Station on 22 March 1997 to lodge an FIR regarding illegal felling of trees, but was instead detained overnight in the police lock-up. Police claimed he was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in Special Case No. 23 of 1995, but the Sessions Judge records established that the warrant had been issued against his son [name withheld], not the petitioner. The Orissa High Court held that the petitioner was arrested and detained without any authority of law, in direct violation of his fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. The Court awarded Rs. 7,000 as compensation and Rs. 3,000 as litigation costs to be paid by the State, with liberty to recover the sum from the responsible police personnel of Soro Police Station. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Petitioner a Soro man visited Soro Police Station on 22 March 1997 to lodge an FIR regarding illegal felling of trees, but was instead detained overnight in the police lock-up. Police claimed he was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in Special Case No. 23 of 1995, but the Sessions Judge records established that the warrant had been issued against his son [name withheld], not the petitioner. The Orissa High Court held that the petitioner was arrested and detained without any authority of law, in direct violation of his fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. The Court awarded Rs. 7,000 as compensation and Rs. 3,000 as litigation costs to be paid by the State, with liberty to recover the sum from the responsible police personnel of Soro Police Station.",
 "court_quote": "This was, thus, a clear case of arrest of the petitioner and detention of the petitioner in police custody without any authority of law.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC found illegal arrest and overnight detention of petitioner without warrant in place of his son, awarding Rs. 7,000 compensation and Rs. 3,000 costs recoverable from erring police.",
 "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2003-06-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2003 (II) OLR 151; 96 (2003) CLT 261; II (2004) ACC 728",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": "ODISHA-007",
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