{
 "record_id": "CW-2007-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0059",
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 "display_title": "Kandaghat Man vs State Of H.P. And Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kandaghat Man vs State Of H.P. And Ors",
 "state": "Himachal Pradesh",
 "district": "Solan",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kandaghat",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Sairy / Police Station Kandaghat",
 "court": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kandaghat Man vs State Of H.P. And Ors",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2008 ACJ 1684; 2008(1) ShimLC 355",
 "judges": [
  "Dev Darshan Sud"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2007-10-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "2001-01-08",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "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": [],
 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 28,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kandaghat man, age 28"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1431596/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh allowed the compensation plea of Santosh Kumari, widow of a Kandaghat man (28), arrested on January 8, 2001 in excise FIR No. 4 of 2001 and found unconscious with head, shoulder, eye and genital injuries while being escorted by Police Post Sairy staff; he died at IGMC Shimla on January 9, 2001. Police claimed he jumped from a running bus near Boileauganj while escaping, while the family alleged custodial torture, delayed treatment and a post-mortem held two days after death. The Court found no compliance with the mandatory D.K. Basu safeguards, noted the SDM enquiry accepted police carelessness and that the scrotum and testicle injuries were unexplained, and directed the petitioner be paid Rs. 2,00,000 (non-recoverable, adjustable against any future civil award), leaving her free to approach courts or the State Human Rights Commission for further relief. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh allowed the compensation plea of Santosh Kumari, widow of a Kandaghat man (28), arrested on January 8, 2001 in excise FIR No. 4 of 2001 and found unconscious with head, shoulder, eye and genital injuries while being escorted by Police Post Sairy staff; he died at IGMC Shimla on January 9, 2001. Police claimed he jumped from a running bus near Boileauganj while escaping, while the family alleged custodial torture, delayed treatment and a post-mortem held two days after death. The Court found no compliance with the mandatory D.K. Basu safeguards, noted the SDM enquiry accepted police carelessness and that the scrotum and testicle injuries were unexplained, and directed the petitioner be paid Rs. 2,00,000 (non-recoverable, adjustable against any future civil award), leaving her free to approach courts or the State Human Rights Commission for further relief.",
 "court_quote": "The injuries on the scrotum and testicles of the deceased have not been explained.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HP HC found HP police violated D.K. Basu safeguards in custody of a Kandaghat man (28) who died with unexplained injuries, awarded Rs. 2 lakh compensation.",
 "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": "2007-10-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2008 ACJ 1684; 2008(1) ShimLC 355",
   "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/1431596/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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  "chunk-r01"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-005",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}