{
 "record_id": "CW-2004-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0748",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Dum Dum Man vs State of West Bengal And Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dum Dum Man vs State of West Bengal And Ors.",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "North 24 Parganas",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dum Dum",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Dum Dum Man vs State of West Bengal And Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(2005) 1 CALLT 261",
 "judges": [
  "Asok Kumar Ganguly",
  "Tapan Kumar Dutt"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2004-08-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "2002-07-05",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Dum Dum man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/201974/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. At about 1 a.m. on the night of 4-5 July 2002, a 15-20 member police party dragged Central Excise Inspector from his Dum Dum home and returned him only at 11 a.m.; he later died by suicide, which his widow linked to the arrest and interrogation. The Division Bench held the high-handedness clearly established, a Dum Dum man under arrest throughout, and the D.K. Basu guidelines, having the force of law, admittedly not followed at all, invading the family's Article 21 privacy. Though no compensation was prayed for, the Court moulded relief and directed Rs.1 lakh within a fortnight as a deterrent, preserving the widow's right to sue the wrongdoers. Individual officers were not identified in the order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "At about 1 a.m. on the night of 4-5 July 2002, a 15-20 member police party dragged Central Excise Inspector from his Dum Dum home and returned him only at 11 a.m.; he later died by suicide, which his widow linked to the arrest and interrogation. The Division Bench held the high-handedness clearly established, a Dum Dum man under arrest throughout, and the D.K. Basu guidelines, having the force of law, admittedly not followed at all, invading the family's Article 21 privacy. Though no compensation was prayed for, the Court moulded relief and directed Rs.1 lakh within a fortnight as a deterrent, preserving the widow's right to sue the wrongdoers. Individual officers were not identified in the order.",
 "court_quote": "high-handedness of the police arresting late a Dum Dum man is clearly established in the facts of this case.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Midnight-arrest high-handedness established; D.K. Basu wholly violated; Rs.1L deterrent compensation to widow.",
 "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": "2004-08-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2005) 1 CALLT 261",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/201974/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-50"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP6-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}