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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0674",
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 "display_title": "Patel Nagar Man vs Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Patel Nagar Man vs Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi & Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "West Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patel Nagar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Patel Nagar / Tihar Jail",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Patel Nagar Man vs Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No.5520/2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Muralidhar"
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 "judgment_date": "2010-06-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2007-06-12",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "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": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Police Station Patel Nagar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Patel Nagar"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Patel Nagar man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 654584,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/166322090/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. Sewage labourer a Patel Nagar man was arrested by Delhi Police on 9 June 2007 under Sections 107/151 CrPC, sent to Tihar Jail on 10 June 2007, and died there on 12 June 2007 with multiple ante-mortem injuries; a medical review board confirmed homicidal death. The Court rejected explanations of self-inflicted injury, held Delhi Police had violated the D.K. Basu guidelines in the arrest and remand, and found a clear Article 21 violation. It directed the GNCTD to pay Rs.6,54,584 compensation plus Rs.15,000 costs, with minors' shares kept in fixed deposits. Tihar custodial officials were not individually named in the order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Sewage labourer a Patel Nagar man was arrested by Delhi Police on 9 June 2007 under Sections 107/151 CrPC, sent to Tihar Jail on 10 June 2007, and died there on 12 June 2007 with multiple ante-mortem injuries; a medical review board confirmed homicidal death. The Court rejected explanations of self-inflicted injury, held Delhi Police had violated the D.K. Basu guidelines in the arrest and remand, and found a clear Article 21 violation. It directed the GNCTD to pay Rs.6,54,584 compensation plus Rs.15,000 costs, with minors' shares kept in fixed deposits. Tihar custodial officials were not individually named in the order.",
 "court_quote": "homicidal death of late a Patel Nagar man which took place while he was in judicial custody in the Tihar Jail.",
 "court_quote_para": "33",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Homicidal death in custody established; D.K. Basu violations by police; Rs.6,54,584 plus costs awarded.",
 "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": "2010-06-03",
   "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 654,584.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) No.5520/2007",
   "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": [
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   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/166322090/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP7-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}