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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0011",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0172",
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 "display_title": "Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Ranchi",
 "district_at_time": "Ranchi",
 "city_town": "Ranchi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Aparesh Kumar Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-07-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1990-07-27",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "IPC 304",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 24,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ranchi man, age 24"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner sought compensation for the custodial death of her 24-year-old son, a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man, who died after being subjected to brutal physical assault by Jagannathpur police personnel on 27 July 1990. The trial court in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993 had previously convicted the accused police officers under Section 304/34 IPC and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Relying on the coordinate bench decision in Bahlen Balmuchu, the Jharkhand High Court held that the custodial killing was a stark violation of Article 21 and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the mother, granting liberty to recover the amount from the guilty police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The petitioner sought compensation for the custodial death of her 24-year-old son, a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man, who died after being subjected to brutal physical assault by Jagannathpur police personnel on 27 July 1990. The trial court in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993 had previously convicted the accused police officers under Section 304/34 IPC and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Relying on the coordinate bench decision in Bahlen Balmuchu, the Jharkhand High Court held that the custodial killing was a stark violation of Article 21 and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the mother, granting liberty to recover the amount from the guilty police personnel.",
 "court_quote": "The facts of the present case are more stark and repulsive as the Trial court has convicted the police officials accused of causing death of the petitioner's son [name withheld] and two others and sentenced them to undergo R.I. for a period of 10 years and also to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/-, in default of payment of fine to undergo S.I. for two years vide judgment dated 27th March, 1996 and order of sentence dated 29th March, 1996.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a (order p.7, para beginning 'The facts of the present case are more stark...')",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to mother of a Ranchi man for custodial death caused by brutal assault by Jagannathpur police.",
 "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": "2012-07-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) No. 538 of 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/122009310/",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}