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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0012",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0714",
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 "display_title": "Batala Man vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Batala Man vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Gurdaspur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Batala",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Rangar Nangal, Batala",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Batala Man vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Misc. No. 19560-M of 2002",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2009-03-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "1992-06-14",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "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": [
  "Arms Act s.25",
  "Arms Act s.54",
  "Arms Act s.59"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "SHO",
   "unit": "Police Station Rangar Nangal, Batala",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "SHO, Police Station Rangar Nangal, Batala"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Punjab Police (recovery party)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police (recovery party)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 20,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Batala man, age 20"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1568180/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. FIR No.146 is dated 13.06.1992 (PS Sadar Batala, ss 25/54/59 Arms Act) — i.e. arrest shown a day BEFORE the alleged 14.6.1992 pickup, not 'later shown arrested'. Reword to: '...while the police showed him arrested in FIR No.146 dated 13.6.1992 under the Arms Act (PS Sadar Batala).'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "FIR No.146 is dated 13.06.1992 (PS Sadar Batala, ss 25/54/59 Arms Act) — i.e. arrest shown a day BEFORE the alleged 14.6.1992 pickup, not 'later shown arrested'. Reword to: '...while the police showed him arrested in FIR No.146 dated 13.6.1992 under the Arms Act (PS Sadar Batala).'",
 "court_quote": "A Batala man, son of the petitioner, aged 20 years was in custody of the police. The police was duty bound to ensure safety to his life.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC disbelieved police recovery-encounter story; Rs.3 lakh compensation for death in custody ordered.",
 "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": "2009-03-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Misc. No. 19560-M of 2002",
   "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/1568180/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP8-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}