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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0518",
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 "display_title": "Rajkot Youngster v. Secretary to the Government of Gujarat and Another (Rajkot lathi-charge case)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rajkot Youngster v. Secretary to the Government of Gujarat and Another (Rajkot lathi-charge case)",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Rajkot",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Rajkot",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rajkot City Police",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Rajkot Youngster v. Secretary to the Government of Gujarat and Another (Rajkot lathi-charge case)",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (PIL) No. 170 of 2012 (Suo Motu)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Bhaskar Bhattacharya",
  "J. B. Pardiwala"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-03-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2012-06-25",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 9,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Rajkot youngster, age 9",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": 14,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rajkot boy, age 14",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": 11,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rajkot boy, age 11",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rajkot boy, age 16",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": 38,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Rajkot woman, age 38",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Rajkot girl, age 16",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 9,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "a 9-year-old child"
  },
  {
   "age": 14,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 14-year-old boy"
  },
  {
   "age": 11,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 11-year-old boy"
  },
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 16-year-old boy"
  },
  {
   "age": 38,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a woman"
  },
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a 16-year-old girl"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 6,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155307395/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "On a suo motu PIL based on photographs and a CD, the Gujarat High Court held Rajkot police guilty of an indiscriminate brutal lathi charge on innocent Dalit residents of Ambedkarnagar Colony, Thorala Ward, on 25 June 2012, a day after a Dalit leader murder. The Court found police beat targeted individuals including children and women, assaulted a surrendered person to teach a lesson, and attacked unconnected passers-by. Rejecting the mild-force defence, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 each as exemplary damages to six victims within four weeks, recoverable from erring officers salaries, and directed a Committee to fix penal liability with prosecution within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On a suo motu PIL based on photographs and a CD, the Gujarat High Court held Rajkot police guilty of an indiscriminate brutal lathi charge on innocent Dalit residents of Ambedkarnagar Colony, Thorala Ward, on 25 June 2012, a day after a Dalit leader murder. The Court found police beat targeted individuals including children and women, assaulted a surrendered person to teach a lesson, and attacked unconnected passers-by. Rejecting the mild-force defence, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 each as exemplary damages to six victims within four weeks, recoverable from erring officers salaries, and directed a Committee to fix penal liability with prosecution within eight weeks.",
 "court_quote": "At the cost of repetition, we state that what is painful is the fact that even when a member of the unlawful assembly meekly surrendered before the Police, the Police with a view to teach a lesson to such person, led a brutal assault with lathi, which is not permissible in law.",
 "court_quote_para": "37",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Brutal lathi charge on Dalits held proved; Rs 25K each to 6 victims; penal-liability probe ordered.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2013-03-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Writ Petition (PIL) No. 170 of 2012 (Suo Motu)",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155307395/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-011",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}