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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0014",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0028",
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 "display_title": "Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Baksa",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mushalpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mushalpur Out Post",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "case_number": "WP(C) No. 2427 of 2008",
 "citation": "(2013) 1 GLT 610",
 "judges": [
  "Amitava Roy",
  "Anima Hazarika"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-11-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2007-10-25",
 "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",
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Mushalpur OP, Baksa",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
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   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.47,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.54,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Mushalpur OP, Baksa"
  },
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Home Guard",
   "unit": "Mushalpur OP, Baksa",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.49,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.64,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Home Guard, Mushalpur OP, Baksa"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mushalpur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415827/damayanti-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/",
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  "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=602102168000&title=damayanti-das-vs-state-of-assam"
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of head teacher a Mushalpur man, who died in custody at Mushalpur Out Post on 26 October 2007 after being detained the previous day for interrogation. While unconvinced of physical torture, the Court held the police grossly negligent: a Home Guard let the detainee carry a gamosa into the toilet, no arrest memo was prepared, the family was never informed, and the post-mortem was conducted without them. The Court found the detainee's right to reputation and the D.K. Basu safeguards under Articles 21 and 22(1) infringed without justifiable cause. The court found Home Guard grossly negligent, but he is a Home Guard volunteer under whose vigil the deceased was left at Mushalpur Police Out Post, not a member of the police force. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of head teacher a Mushalpur man, who died in custody at Mushalpur Out Post on 26 October 2007 after being detained the previous day for interrogation. While unconvinced of physical torture, the Court held the police grossly negligent: a Home Guard let the detainee carry a gamosa into the toilet, no arrest memo was prepared, the family was never informed, and the post-mortem was conducted without them. The Court found the detainee's right to reputation and the D.K. Basu safeguards under Articles 21 and 22(1) infringed without justifiable cause.",
 "court_quote": "it is admitted by the respondents that Sri [name withheld], Home Guard under whose vigil and control the deceased had been left at the Mushalpur Police Out Post had been grossly negligent in allowing him to carry a 'Gamosa' with him to the toilet",
 "court_quote_para": "19",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Custodial negligence (gamosa suicide); Rs 1.5L verified.",
 "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": "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": "2012-11-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gauhati High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2013) 1 GLT 610",
   "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",
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-014",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}