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 "record_id": "CW-2007-0019",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0723",
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 "display_title": "Talcher Man v. State of Orissa",
 "display_title_redacted": "Talcher Man v. State of Orissa",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Angul",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Talcher",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher, Angul",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Talcher Man v. State of Orissa",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 8373 of 2004",
 "citation": "2007(II)OLR573",
 "judges": [
  "A.K. Ganguly",
  "I. Mahanty"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2007-09-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "2003-12-29",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "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",
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (in-charge)",
   "unit": "Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher",
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (in-charge), Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Circle Inspector",
   "unit": "Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Circle Inspector, Kalinga Police Beat House, Talcher"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Talcher man, age 26"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 450000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/707487/",
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 "summary": "The Orissa High Court (A.K. Ganguly, CJ and I. Mahanty, J.), treating a citizen's letter as PIL, awarded a further Rs 3 lakh to Kastu Behera for the death of his 26-year-old tipper-driver son [name withheld] during illegal police custody. The Court found a Talcher man, who was not an accused, was forcibly taken from home on 29 December 2003 and confined for three days in Kalinga Beat House for interrogation in a Sarpanch murder case without any magistrate's order and without the written requisition required by s.160 CrPC, and was found hanging on 31 December 2003. Holding the police guilty of infringing Article 21, the Court ordered the additional sum (over Rs 50,000 ex gratia and Rs 1 lakh interim already paid) with liberty to recover from the erring officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Orissa High Court (A.K. Ganguly, CJ and I. Mahanty, J.), treating a citizen's letter as PIL, awarded a further Rs 3 lakh to Kastu Behera for the death of his 26-year-old tipper-driver son [name withheld] during illegal police custody. The Court found a Talcher man, who was not an accused, was forcibly taken from home on 29 December 2003 and confined for three days in Kalinga Beat House for interrogation in a Sarpanch murder case without any magistrate's order and without the written requisition required by s.160 CrPC, and was found hanging on 31 December 2003. Holding the police guilty of infringing Article 21, the Court ordered the additional sum (over Rs 50,000 ex gratia and Rs 1 lakh interim already paid) with liberty to recover from the erring officers.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, this Court holds that the police is guilty of causing an infringement of fundamental right of a Talcher man under Article 21 of the Constitution by keeping a Talcher man illegally in their custody and a Talcher man died by allegedly committing suicide in course of such illegal detention.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC PIL judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 3L additional for 3-day illegal detention + death matches.",
 "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": "2007-09-06",
   "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 450,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2007(II)OLR573",
   "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": [
    "officers"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/707487/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-072",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}