{
 "record_id": "CW-2010-0014",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0686",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "The Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Others vs Shivakka w/o Aminabhavi Man and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "The Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Others vs Shivakka w/o Aminabhavi Man and Others",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Dharwad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Aminabhavi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dharwad police (custody 27-29 November 2002)",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Others vs Shivakka w/o Aminabhavi Man and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Appeal under Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act (against W.P. No. 20333/2004, 07.12.2006)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "D. V. Shylendra Kumar",
  "N. Ananda"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-04-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2002-11-29",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "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": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Aminabhavi man"
  }
 ],
 "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/155846966/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police took control of an Aminabhavi man of Aminabhavi on the evening of 27 November 2002, rescuing him from a mob assault in which he had been tied to a telephone pole and beaten, and took him to hospital where three injuries were certified. He suffered multiple fractures and died a homicidal death by shock and haemorrhage while in police power and control over 27-29 November 2002. The Single Judge awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation in 2006; the State appealed contending he was never in police custody. The Division Bench held something damaging and disastrous happened to him within the power and control of the police, found no scope to interfere, dismissed the appeal with Rs.10,000 costs, and directed Rs.2 lakh in term deposit with Rs.1 lakh plus interest released to the widow.",
 "summary_verified": "Police took control of an Aminabhavi man of Aminabhavi on the evening of 27 November 2002, rescuing him from a mob assault in which he had been tied to a telephone pole and beaten, and took him to hospital where three injuries were certified. He suffered multiple fractures and died a homicidal death by shock and haemorrhage while in police power and control over 27-29 November 2002. The Single Judge awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation in 2006; the State appealed contending he was never in police custody. The Division Bench held something damaging and disastrous happened to him within the power and control of the police, found no scope to interfere, dismissed the appeal with Rs.10,000 costs, and directed Rs.2 lakh in term deposit with Rs.1 lakh plus interest released to the widow.",
 "court_quote": "something damaging, disastrous had happened to deceased [name withheld] while he was within the power and control of the Police",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "DB upheld Rs.3 lakh custodial-death award; State appeal dismissed with Rs.10,000 costs.",
 "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": "2010-04-12",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Writ Appeal under Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act (against W.P. No. 20333/2004, 07.12.2006)",
   "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/155846966/",
   "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": [
  "chunk-51"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP10-009",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}