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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0018",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1135",
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 "display_title": "Bhandara Man vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bhandara Man vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Bhandara",
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 "city_town": "Bhandara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Central Jail, Bhandara",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "case_title": "Bhandara Man vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 287 of 2000",
 "citation": "2003(2) ALD (Cri) 122; 2003(4) MHLJ 436",
 "judges": [
  "R.M.S. Khandeparkar, J.",
  "P.S. Brahme, J."
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 "judgment_date": "2003-04-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "2000-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.226"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Bhandara man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1599372/",
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  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1022868/",
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/814108/shobha-londase-vs-state-of-maharashtra-and-others/"
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court held that undertrial a Bhandara man died a custodial death in Central Jail, Bhandara after five named personnel forced him into wrestling practice, fracturing his waist and neck bones; he was hospitalised in January 2000 and death was reported on 8 February 2000. The court found him a victim of barbaric treatment by servants of the State and directed the State to pay his widow Rs. 3,00,000 compensation plus Rs. 2,000 costs. It further ordered an inquiry fixing responsibility, recovery of the sum from those responsible, and initiation of legal proceedings against all persons responsible for the death, with compliance reports due in 2003-2004. A criminal proceeding against one jail staff member was already on record. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court held that undertrial a Bhandara man died a custodial death in Central Jail, Bhandara after five named personnel forced him into wrestling practice, fracturing his waist and neck bones; he was hospitalised in January 2000 and death was reported on 8 February 2000. The court found him a victim of barbaric treatment by servants of the State and directed the State to pay his widow Rs. 3,00,000 compensation plus Rs. 2,000 costs. It further ordered an inquiry fixing responsibility, recovery of the sum from those responsible, and initiation of legal proceedings against all persons responsible for the death, with compliance reports due in 2003-2004. A criminal proceeding against one jail staff member was already on record.",
 "court_quote": "The deceased being victim of barbaric treatment by the servants of the State, it is primarily the responsibility of the State to pay the compensation with the right to recover the same from its servants who are responsible for the custodial death of Anil after holding inquiry in that regard and fixing the liability.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC found custodial death; Rs 3L compensation; jail staff called police personnel in judgment.",
 "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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 "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": "2003-04-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2003(2) ALD (Cri) 122; 2003(4) MHLJ 436",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-20-002",
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 "service": "police",
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