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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0020",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0975",
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 "display_title": "Sindhaul Man vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sindhaul Man vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Begusarai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sindhaul",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sindhaul Man vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 10329 of 2001",
 "citation": "2004 (2) PLJR 541",
 "judges": [
  "Chandramauli Kumar Prasad"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-09-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "2001-04-08",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Officer-in-charge",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Officer-in-charge, Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sindhaul man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 75000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/737850/heera-lal-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2003) 09 PAT CK 0042"
 ],
 "summary": "A tractor (BR-08-0855) with thrasher seized by the District Transport Officer was handed to Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai, for safe custody on 29 March 2001; after the owner deposited tax and fine and obtained a release order, the tractor was found stolen from the station on 8 April 2001, with the FIR lodged only months later. The petitioner also alleged the officer-in-charge demanded illegal gratification for release, which the court did not need to decide. The Patna High Court (Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, J.) rejected the State's sovereign-immunity defence, held the theft occurred on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of police-station staff, and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 plus Rs 5,500 costs within eight weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring person. The court observed that withholding two increments for such dereliction was grossly inadequate, while declining to fix individual responsibility. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A tractor (BR-08-0855) with thrasher seized by the District Transport Officer was handed to Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai, for safe custody on 29 March 2001; after the owner deposited tax and fine and obtained a release order, the tractor was found stolen from the station on 8 April 2001, with the FIR lodged only months later. The petitioner also alleged the officer-in-charge demanded illegal gratification for release, which the court did not need to decide. The Patna High Court (Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, J.) rejected the State's sovereign-immunity defence, held the theft occurred on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of police-station staff, and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 plus Rs 5,500 costs within eight weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring person. The court observed that withholding two increments for such dereliction was grossly inadequate, while declining to fix individual responsibility.",
 "court_quote": "It is on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of the employees of the State posted in the police station that the theft had taken place.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; police-station negligence caused loss of seized tractor, Rs 75,000 compensation ordered.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2003-09-17",
   "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 75,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2004 (2) PLJR 541",
   "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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  },
  {
   "url": "(2003) 09 PAT CK 0042",
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 "retracted": {
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 },
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-005",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}