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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0719",
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 "display_title": "New Delhi Man and Others v. The Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "New Delhi Man and Others v. The Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "South Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "New Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sangam Vihar, Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "New Delhi Man and Others v. The Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 11079 of 2006",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Muralidhar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-03-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2002-05-23",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 376",
  "Constitution Art. 21"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "PS Sangam Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.21,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.81,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Sangam Vihar, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "New Delhi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 532750,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121309564/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "State v. Prempal, SC No. 29/2002, ASJ New Delhi, judgment dated 28-09-2004 (acquittal with findings of false implication)"
 ],
 "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Justice S. Muralidhar) awarded mason Prempal Rs 5,32,750 with 6% interest from his arrest plus Rs 30,000 costs for years of police harassment culminating in a false rape case (FIR No. 231/2002). The Court relied on the final, unappealed 2004 acquittal by the Additional Sessions Judge, who had found a New Delhi man framed because he complained against police officials, tortured in custody, and reduced to a living corpse. Holding his Article 21 rights brazenly violated, the Court limited compensation to the FIR 231/2002 incarceration, directed the Commissioner to send a written apology to the family and review other pending cases against a New Delhi man, and noted the IO had earned only a forfeiture-of-service punishment.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Justice S. Muralidhar) awarded mason Prempal Rs 5,32,750 with 6% interest from his arrest plus Rs 30,000 costs for years of police harassment culminating in a false rape case (FIR No. 231/2002). The Court relied on the final, unappealed 2004 acquittal by the Additional Sessions Judge, who had found a New Delhi man framed because he complained against police officials, tortured in custody, and reduced to a living corpse. Holding his Article 21 rights brazenly violated, the Court limited compensation to the FIR 231/2002 incarceration, directed the Commissioner to send a written apology to the family and review other pending cases against a New Delhi man, and noted the IO had earned only a forfeiture-of-service punishment.",
 "court_quote": "In light of the overwhelming evidence discussed threadbare in the judgment of the learned ASJ, which has attained finality, there can be no manner of doubt that Petitioner1 has been treated most unreasonably, unfairly by the police and his fundamental rights under Article 21 were brazenly violated by the Respondents.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Delhi HC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 5,32,750 + interest + costs award 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": "2010-03-25",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 532,750.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) No. 11079 of 2006",
   "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/121309564/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "State v. Prempal, SC No. 29/2002, ASJ New Delhi, judgment dated 28-09-2004 (acquittal with findings of false implication)",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-067",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}