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 "record_id": "CW-2011-0018",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0288",
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 "display_title": "Talamitingi Man vs State Of Orissa And Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Talamitingi Man vs State Of Orissa And Others",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Koraput",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Talamitingi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kakirigumma Police Station",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Talamitingi Man vs State Of Orissa And Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Crl.) No.379 of 2011",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "B.N. Mahapatra",
  "V. Gopala Gowda"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2011-09-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2011,
 "incident_date": "2009-04-13",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Article 21",
  "Article 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Subedar",
   "unit": "Special Operation Group Assault Team No. 23",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Deputy Subedar, Special Operation Group Assault Team No. 23"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
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   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Special Operation Group"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 28,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Talamitingi man, age 28"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 400000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/140389596/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. A Talamitingi man, aged 28, of Karon Jajhola (Narayanpatna) then staying at Talamitingi, was found dead on 13 April 2009 after an exchange of fire between SOG assault teams (Dy. Subedar's Team No.23 and SI 's team) and Maoists near the village. Police claimed he was an armed Maoist and recovered weapons near the body; his widow alleged he was an unarmed tribal shot by jawans and that the body was not handed over (co-villagers' affidavits), while police claimed handover with acknowledgement. The SP's report conceded it could not be conclusively established that a Talamitingi man fired at police or belonged to the attacking group, noting his hand wash was never taken; the OHRC had awarded Rs 1.5 lakh. The High Court held it could not be said he was a CPI (Maoist) member or fired at police, applied respondeat superior to an innocent death in cross-fire, directed Rs 4 lakh inclusive of interest to the widow, and declined further investigation. The court did not find a staged encounter. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. A Talamitingi man, aged 28, of Karon Jajhola (Narayanpatna) then staying at Talamitingi, was found dead on 13 April 2009 after an exchange of fire between SOG assault teams (Dy. Subedar's Team No.23 and SI 's team) and Maoists near the village. Police claimed he was an armed Maoist and recovered weapons near the body; his widow alleged he was an unarmed tribal shot by jawans and that the body was not handed over (co-villagers' affidavits), while police claimed handover with acknowledgement. The SP's report conceded it could not be conclusively established that a Talamitingi man fired at police or belonged to the attacking group, noting his hand wash was never taken; the OHRC had awarded Rs 1.5 lakh. The High Court held it could not be said he was a CPI (Maoist) member or fired at police, applied respondeat superior to an innocent death in cross-fire, directed Rs 4 lakh inclusive of interest to the widow, and declined further investigation. The court did not find a staged encounter.",
 "court_quote": "It is not uncommon that in a cross firing between Police and anti-social(s), some times an innocent person is being caught and killed. If life of an innocent person is taken away by Police during the course of any encounter between Police and anti-social(s), such case(s) is/are governed by the legal maxim \"respondeat superior\" and thus the State is liable for the wrong done by the Police.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC rejected police claim that slain tribal was an armed Maoist, holding State liable under respondeat superior for police killing an innocent villager and awarding Rs. 4 lakh compensation.",
 "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"
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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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2011-09-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 400,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(Crl.) No.379 of 2011",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "ODISHA-012",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}