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 "display_title": "Gowtham vs Senior Inspector of Police, Narcotic Cell CBCID Mumbai and Another",
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 "state": "Maharashtra",
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 "case_title": "Gowtham vs Senior Inspector of Police, Narcotic Cell CBCID Mumbai and Another",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.2933 of 1997",
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 "judgment_date": "2010-08-24",
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 "incident_date": "1997-03-01",
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 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
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  {
   "age": 57,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Mumbai man, age 57"
  }
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1519892/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Mumbai Narcotic Cell police took a Mumbai man, aged about 57, into custody at Tuticorin on 20.2.1997 for interrogation in NDPS Crime No.18/1997, showed arrest only on 25.2.1997, and lodged him in the Azad Maidan lock-up, where he died on 1.3.1997. Though the autopsy and CBI found death by natural disease without injuries, the CBI confirmed transit-remand procedure was skipped and no medical examination was done. The Court held the arrest illegal, custody till 25.2.1997 illegal, and the deceased denied legal and medical assistance despite acute asthma and put to enormous mental torture. It directed the State of Maharashtra to pay Rs.2,50,000 compensation to the family. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Mumbai Narcotic Cell police took a Mumbai man, aged about 57, into custody at Tuticorin on 20.2.1997 for interrogation in NDPS Crime No.18/1997, showed arrest only on 25.2.1997, and lodged him in the Azad Maidan lock-up, where he died on 1.3.1997. Though the autopsy and CBI found death by natural disease without injuries, the CBI confirmed transit-remand procedure was skipped and no medical examination was done. The Court held the arrest illegal, custody till 25.2.1997 illegal, and the deceased denied legal and medical assistance despite acute asthma and put to enormous mental torture. It directed the State of Maharashtra to pay Rs.2,50,000 compensation to the family.",
 "court_quote": "To sum up, I have to state that the deceased was arrested on 20.2.1997 illegally, the arrest was not intimated to the relatives, the grounds of arrest were not informed to the deceased, he was kept in the illegal custody till 25.2.1997, no legal assistance was given to him, no medical assistance was given to him up to 1.3.1997 and he was put under enormous mental torture. For all these things alone, the 1st respondent is liable to pay compensation.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held illegal custody, denial of medical aid and mental torture proved; Rs.2.5 lakh compensation.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
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  {
   "date": "2010-08-24",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No.2933 of 1997",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "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)",
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