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 "display_title": "Lethpora, Awantipora Man vs The State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Lethpora, Awantipora Man vs The State",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Pulwama",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Lethpora, Awantipora",
 "police_station_or_unit": "STF/SOG camp, Lethpora, Awantipora",
 "court": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court",
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 "case_title": "Lethpora, Awantipora Man vs The State",
 "case_number": "O.W.P. No. 263 of 2001",
 "citation": "2004 CriLJ 1706",
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  "Syed Bashir-Ud-Din"
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 "judgment_date": "2003-10-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1997-09-01",
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 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Lethpora, Awantipora man"
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 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/964711/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court records the following account. A Lethpora, Awantipora man, a cameraman with the University of Kashmir, was picked up from the university campus in September 1997 by an STF/SOG team led by SP (Operations) [name withheld] and never seen again. The State Human Rights Commission, after a full enquiry with cross-examination, held the arrest proved and the police story of escape during a Nowhatta arms-recovery operation fabricated, recommending Rs. 5 lakh interim relief, a criminal case and disciplinary action. The High Court adopted the SHRC findings, held the case a custodial disappearance in breach of Article 21, and awarded Rs. 2 lakh public-law compensation (unless the State paid the SHRC-recommended Rs. 5 lakh), leaving recovery from the responsible officers to the State. It also directed registration of a criminal case against the erring officials, investigation by an SSP-rank officer within four months, and simultaneous disciplinary proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Lethpora, Awantipora man, a cameraman with the University of Kashmir, was picked up from the university campus in September 1997 by an STF/SOG team led by SP (Operations) [name withheld] and never seen again. The State Human Rights Commission, after a full enquiry with cross-examination, held the arrest proved and the police story of escape during a Nowhatta arms-recovery operation fabricated, recommending Rs. 5 lakh interim relief, a criminal case and disciplinary action. The High Court adopted the SHRC findings, held the case a custodial disappearance in breach of Article 21, and awarded Rs. 2 lakh public-law compensation (unless the State paid the SHRC-recommended Rs. 5 lakh), leaving recovery from the responsible officers to the State. It also directed registration of a criminal case against the erring officials, investigation by an SSP-rank officer within four months, and simultaneous disciplinary proceedings.",
 "court_quote": "The police version is wholly unacceptable and one tailored to serve interests of the police personnel involved in the offence of custodial disappearance of the subject.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Custodial disappearance proved; compensation plus criminal/disciplinary directions.",
 "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": "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": "2003-10-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2004 CriLJ 1706",
   "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",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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