{ "record_id": "CW-2006-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0460", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Danapur Man v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Danapur Man v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Danapur", "police_station_or_unit": "Danapur", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Danapur Man v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "case_number": "CWJC No. 2148 of 2001", "citation": "(2006) 3 PLJR 336", "judges": [ "Barin Ghosh" ], "judgment_date": "2006-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1998-06-01", "incident_year": 1998, "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": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Bihar Police, Danapur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Bihar Police, Danapur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Danapur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764692/rama-awtar-swarnkar-ram-awtar-pd-swarankar-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-responde/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court held the State liable for the homicidal custodial death of a Danapur man, whose injured dead body came out of police custody in June 1998 after he was kept overnight at Danapur and then remanded to jail. The Court found the post-mortem showed injuries that would cause homicidal death, and that the Investigating Officer deliberately delayed forwarding viscera to the FSL by 18 months so the cause of death could never be known, while superiors stood by silently. It assessed Rs 5 lakh nominal damages payable within three months. The State was directed to recover the sum from the person or persons at fault. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held the State liable for the homicidal custodial death of a Danapur man, whose injured dead body came out of police custody in June 1998 after he was kept overnight at Danapur and then remanded to jail. The Court found the post-mortem showed injuries that would cause homicidal death, and that the Investigating Officer deliberately delayed forwarding viscera to the FSL by 18 months so the cause of death could never be known, while superiors stood by silently. It assessed Rs 5 lakh nominal damages payable within three months. The State was directed to recover the sum from the person or persons at fault.", "court_quote": "The post mortem report depicts marks of injuries, which if inflicted upon a living soul, may cause his death. Such death will be homicidal in nature.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 5L nominal damages with recovery from officers at fault.", "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": "2006-03-31", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2006) 3 PLJR 336", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764692/rama-awtar-swarnkar-ram-awtar-pd-swarankar-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-responde/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-034", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }