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 "display_title": "Delhi Man and Others vs Union of India (UOI) and Others",
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 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "West Delhi",
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 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "case_title": "Delhi Man and Others vs Union of India (UOI) and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Crl.) Nos. 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 of 2005",
 "citation": "(2006) 126 DLT 653; (2006) 142 PLR 70",
 "judges": [
  "Ramesh Chand Jain"
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 "judgment_date": "2005-12-20",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 32,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Delhi man, age 32"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 350000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/425502/",
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  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1560757/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. A Delhi man, aged about 32, who ran an STD booth in Delhi, died of injuries caused by five named Delhi Police officials while in their custody; the respondent State did not dispute the custodial death and stated the officials were facing trial before the Additional Sessions Judge. His widow, two minor daughters and two brothers moved the High Court under Article 226 after the Supreme Court dismissed their petition with liberty to approach it. Applying Nilabati Behera and successor decisions, the Court held the State vicariously liable in public law to compensate the legal heirs. It awarded Rs 3,50,000 to the widow and two minor children (Rs 50,000 to the widow, Rs 3 lakh in FDRs for the children), leaving the State at liberty to recover the amount from the delinquent officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Delhi man, aged about 32, who ran an STD booth in Delhi, died of injuries caused by five named Delhi Police officials while in their custody; the respondent State did not dispute the custodial death and stated the officials were facing trial before the Additional Sessions Judge. His widow, two minor daughters and two brothers moved the High Court under Article 226 after the Supreme Court dismissed their petition with liberty to approach it. Applying Nilabati Behera and successor decisions, the Court held the State vicariously liable in public law to compensate the legal heirs. It awarded Rs 3,50,000 to the widow and two minor children (Rs 50,000 to the widow, Rs 3 lakh in FDRs for the children), leaving the State at liberty to recover the amount from the delinquent officials.",
 "court_quote": "there is no denial of the legal position that the state under public law is vicariously liable to compensate the legal heirs of the deceased who has met the custodial death at the hands of official of the State",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Admitted custodial death; HC awarded Rs 3.5 lakh compensation, State free to recover from officers.",
 "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"
  }
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  {
   "date": "2005-12-20",
   "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": "(2006) 126 DLT 653; (2006) 142 PLR 70",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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",
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