{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0279", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1439" ], "display_title": "Simulia Man And Ors. vs State Of Orissa And Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Simulia Man And Ors. vs State Of Orissa And Ors.", "state": "Odisha", "district": "Balasore", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Simulia", "police_station_or_unit": "Simulia Police Station", "court": "Orissa High Court", "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Simulia Man And Ors. vs State Of Orissa And Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (exact number not stated in extracted text)", "citation": "AIR 2007 Orissa 94; (2007) 1 OLR 410", "judges": [ "M.M. Das", "B.P. Das" ], "judgment_date": "2007-02-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2002-02-06", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": 35, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Simulia man, age 35" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/864050/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/94973/kalpana-mandal-and-others-appellant-hash-state-of-orissa-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. On 6 February 2002 Simulia police chasing the Dolphine Dynamic bus fired aimlessly at it near Dhobagadia crossing on NH-5 after the driver failed to stop, killing passenger a Simulia man, aged about 35, with a chest gunshot. A criminal case under IPC 304 against Simulia police personnel ended in acquittal, but the OIC admitted in counter-affidavit that a Simulia man died in the police firing. The High Court held that the death resulted from the irresponsible and negligent act of the police and that compensation under Article 226 was appropriate where negligence was writ large. It fixed Rs. 5 lakh as just compensation, directing payment of the Rs. 2.5 lakh balance within three months after adjusting Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia and Rs. 1.5 lakh interim already paid. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 6 February 2002 Simulia police chasing the Dolphine Dynamic bus fired aimlessly at it near Dhobagadia crossing on NH-5 after the driver failed to stop, killing passenger a Simulia man, aged about 35, with a chest gunshot. A criminal case under IPC 304 against Simulia police personnel ended in acquittal, but the OIC admitted in counter-affidavit that a Simulia man died in the police firing. The High Court held that the death resulted from the irresponsible and negligent act of the police and that compensation under Article 226 was appropriate where negligence was writ large. It fixed Rs. 5 lakh as just compensation, directing payment of the Rs. 2.5 lakh balance within three months after adjusting Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia and Rs. 1.5 lakh interim already paid.", "court_quote": "we are of the view that late a Simulia man died consequent upon the irresponsible act of the police in aimlessly firing at the bus, in which the said deceased was traveling as a passenger.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Police firing death admitted; Rs.5L compensation for negligent firing.", "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": "2007-02-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Orissa High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2007 Orissa 94; (2007) 1 OLR 410", "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/864050/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/94973/kalpana-mandal-and-others-appellant-hash-state-of-orissa-and-others-respondent/", "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-09", "chunk-47", "chunk-r07" ], "merged_case_id": "ODISHA-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }