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 "record_id": "CW-2006-0014",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0735",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "P. S. T. v. State of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "P. S. T. v. State of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Gondia",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Arjuni Morgaon",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": "Nagpur",
 "case_title": "P. S. T. v. State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2006 CriLJ 2202",
 "judges": [
  "J.N. Patel",
  "R.C. Chavan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2006-01-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2006,
 "incident_date": "1990-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 22",
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "Juvenile Justice Act 1986",
  "Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000",
  "SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 s.3(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Station Officer",
   "unit": "Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.5,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.67,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Station Officer, Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Officer",
   "unit": "Chichgarh, Deori, Gondia",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Officer, Chichgarh, Deori, Gondia"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 13,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Arjuni Morgaon girl, age 13",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 13,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a 13-year-old girl"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1095603/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "a 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old Gond tribal girl, was seized from her home at midnight in 1990, hanged from a tree in the Keshori forest and beaten unconscious, then illegally detained for years with her arrest recorded only in 1993 and falsely implicated in three serious cases including under TADA, all ending in acquittal by the Juvenile Court for want of evidence. The Court rejected the State's cover-up, holding the detention, torture and false prosecution corroborated and monitored with senior officers' tacit consent. It ordered the State to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs within four weeks. It further directed a DIG-led Special Investigation Team of the State CID, including a lady SP, to fix responsibility, prosecute the guilty officers and recover the compensation, with an action-taken report in six months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Parbatabai, a 13-year-old Gond tribal girl, was seized from her home at midnight in 1990, hanged from a tree in the Keshori forest and beaten unconscious, then illegally detained for years with her arrest recorded only in 1993 and falsely implicated in three serious cases including under TADA, all ending in acquittal by the Juvenile Court for want of evidence. The Court rejected the State's cover-up, holding the detention, torture and false prosecution corroborated and monitored with senior officers' tacit consent. It ordered the State to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs within four weeks. It further directed a DIG-led Special Investigation Team of the State CID, including a lady SP, to fix responsibility, prosecute the guilty officers and recover the compensation, with an action-taken report in six months.",
 "court_quote": "In our considered opinion, the contentions of the petitioner that she was arrested, illegally detained and tortured and thereafter falsely implicated in these three cases stand well corroborated and there is no reason to disbelieve her on this count.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held illegal detention/torture/false implication proved, awarded Rs 5 lakh + SIT probe; matches outcome.",
 "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": "2006-01-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay 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 CriLJ 2202",
   "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/1095603/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
 },
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-094",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}