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 "record_id": "CW-2011-0014",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Ramtek Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ramtek Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Nagpur",
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 "city_town": "Ramtek",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ramtek Police Station",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "bench": "Nagpur",
 "case_title": "Ramtek Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 474 of 2003",
 "citation": "2011 SCC OnLine Bom 1007",
 "judges": [
  "A.H. Joshi",
  "U.V. Bakre"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2011-08-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2011,
 "incident_date": "2003-07-22",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "display": "Assistant Police Sub-Inspector, Ramtek Police Station"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ramtek man"
  }
 ],
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/960462/",
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held the State liable for the custodial death of Nitin Patil, who died while remanded in custody at Ramtek Police Station on 22 July 2003. Patil had been repeatedly arrested across multiple police stations in successive criminal cases and subjected to continuous custody before being found hanging in the lockup latrine. The High Court observed that the police failed to prove that circumstances surrounding the detainee were normal and that the death, though suicidal, attracted tortious liability. The court directed the State of Maharashtra to pay Rs 2,00,000 as compensation with 6% annual interest and Rs 10,000 costs to the deceased's family. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) held the State liable for the custodial death of N. P., who died while remanded in custody at Ramtek Police Station on 22 July 2003. Patil had been repeatedly arrested across multiple police stations in successive criminal cases and subjected to continuous custody before being found hanging in the lockup latrine. The High Court observed that the police failed to prove that circumstances surrounding the detainee were normal and that the death, though suicidal, attracted tortious liability. The court directed the State of Maharashtra to pay Rs 2,00,000 as compensation with 6% annual interest and Rs 10,000 costs to the deceased's family.",
 "court_quote": "In the result, this Court is satisfied that the death, though suicidal, attracts a tortuous liability to the State, though such liability would not be on the same rigours and lines.",
 "court_quote_para": "71",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC (Nagpur Bench) held State liable for custodial death of N. P., awarding Rs 2,00,000 compensation plus interest and costs.",
 "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": "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2011-08-02",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2011 SCC OnLine Bom 1007",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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",
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   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "MAHARA-019",
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