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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0104",
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 "display_title": "State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) vs Smt. Iqbal Begum",
 "display_title_redacted": "State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) vs Smt. Iqbal Begum",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "North East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Seelampur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Seelampur, Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) vs Smt. Iqbal Begum",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal against Single Judge writ judgment (2004 CriLJ 3092)",
 "citation": "2004 CriLJ 3092",
 "judges": [
  "Dalveer Bhandari",
  "R.C. Jain"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2004-05-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "1994-08-27",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "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": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Seelampur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 350000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/610196/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/378848/state-govt-of-nct-of-delhi-vs-smt-iqbal-begum/"
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court Division Bench (Dalveer Bhandari, J.) dismissed the State's appeal as devoid of merit and upheld Rs. 3,50,000 ex-gratia compensation for the custodial death of a Seelampur man Summoned to PS Seelampur at 5 PM on 27 August 1994 and locked up at 7:50 PM, he died during interrogation the same night with multiple ante-mortem injuries and was brought dead to hospital at 00:40 AM; a Section 176 CrPC magisterial inquiry confirmed death in police custody. The Court recorded that the State and its functionaries caused the death in custody, holding the brutality precipitated his fatal condition despite a heart ailment, and rebuked the State for appealing a just and reasonable award instead of graciously accepting it.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court Division Bench (Dalveer Bhandari, J.) dismissed the State's appeal as devoid of merit and upheld Rs. 3,50,000 ex-gratia compensation for the custodial death of a Seelampur man Summoned to PS Seelampur at 5 PM on 27 August 1994 and locked up at 7:50 PM, he died during interrogation the same night with multiple ante-mortem injuries and was brought dead to hospital at 00:40 AM; a Section 176 CrPC magisterial inquiry confirmed death in police custody. The Court recorded that the State and its functionaries caused the death in custody, holding the brutality precipitated his fatal condition despite a heart ailment, and rebuked the State for appealing a just and reasonable award instead of graciously accepting it.",
 "court_quote": "From the entire material on record it is clear that the death of the husband of the respondent can be clearly termed as custodial death and even if the deceased was suffering from the heart problem, the brutality inflicted upon him only precipitated the condition which proved fatal.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: State appeal dismissed; Rs 3.5 lakh custodial-death compensation upheld.",
 "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": "2004-05-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 350,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2004 CriLJ 3092",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/610196/",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/378848/state-govt-of-nct-of-delhi-vs-smt-iqbal-begum/",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "DELHI-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}