{
 "record_id": "CW-2009-0024",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1142",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Pusad Man & Anr. vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pusad Man & Anr. vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Yavatmal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pusad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pusad Police Station",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pusad Man & Anr. vs State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2009 (6) Mh.L.J. 1002",
 "judges": [
  "A.P. Lavande"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2009-05-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "2003-10-24",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "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",
  "IPC 201"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 10,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 40,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pusad man, age 40"
  }
 ],
 "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://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=319002347000&title=satyavatibai-vs-state-of-maharashtra",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/960462/",
  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b4954f607dba348f011d69"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Inderjitsingh Chauhan was arrested by Pusad police on 24.10.2003 and died in police custody; a three-doctor panel post-mortem showed antemortem injuries and CID registered ss.302/201 IPC against ten police personnel. His mother and brother sought Rs.10 lakh compensation under Article 226. The court held the custodial death established and awarded Rs.5,00,000 compensation to the heirs, with liberty to the State to recover from the erring officers. Full primary text was paywalled; facts and quantum corroborated by the-laws/casemine headnotes and a later Bombay HC judgment citing this case. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Inderjitsingh Chauhan was arrested by Pusad police on 24.10.2003 and died in police custody; a three-doctor panel post-mortem showed antemortem injuries and CID registered ss.302/201 IPC against ten police personnel. His mother and brother sought Rs.10 lakh compensation under Article 226. The court held the custodial death established and awarded Rs.5,00,000 compensation to the heirs, with liberty to the State to recover from the erring officers. Full primary text was paywalled; facts and quantum corroborated by the-laws/casemine headnotes and a later Bombay HC judgment citing this case.",
 "court_quote": "the petitioners seek direction against respondent No. 1 to pay compensation of Rs. Ten lakhs to the heirs of the deceased [name withheld]",
 "court_quote_para": "1",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held custodial death established; Rs 5 lakh compensation (via headnote + citing HC judgment).",
 "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": "2009-05-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2009 (6) Mh.L.J. 1002",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=319002347000&title=satyavatibai-vs-state-of-maharashtra",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/960462/",
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-103"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-22-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}