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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0020",
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 "display_title": "Rowta Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rowta Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Udalguri",
 "district_at_time": "Darrang",
 "city_town": "Rowta",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rowta Outpost, Udalguri Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Rowta Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2008 (1) GLT 338",
 "judges": [
  "J. Chelameswar",
  "B.P. Katakey"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2007-12-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "2000-12-20",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "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": [
  "IPC 302"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge, respondent No. 6)",
   "unit": "Rowta Out Post, Udalguri PS",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
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    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.94,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.05,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge, respondent No. 6), Rowta Out Post, Udalguri PS"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rowta man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1479024/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. remove 'Sub-Inspector' naming unless sourced; state police version (para 8). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "remove 'Sub-Inspector' naming unless sourced; state police version (para 8)",
 "court_quote": "it is conclusively proved that a Rowta man died in police custody due to the torture.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Division Bench held SI (OC Rowta Out Post) responsible for custodial torture-death of a Rowta man; Rs 3 lakh total (Rs 2.25 lakh balance after AHRC Rs 75,000).",
 "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": "2007-12-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gauhati High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2008 (1) GLT 338",
   "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": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1479024/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}
