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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0091",
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 "display_title": "Bilaspur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bilaspur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Bilaspur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bilaspur",
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 "court": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bilaspur Man v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (C) No. 5268 of 2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Satish K. Agnihotri"
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 "judgment_date": "2013-04-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2005-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Arms Act s.25"
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   "display": "Police personnel"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Bilaspur man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.indianemployees.com/uploads/judgments/082015/1439808645-10ap13.pdf",
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 "summary": "The Chhattisgarh High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh to Ganeshi Bai for the death of her husband [name withheld] in police custody. Arrested in Crime No. 206/2005 under Section 25 of the Arms Act and being escorted to Central Jail Bilaspur by respondents 3 and 4, he died en route; police claimed he tried to escape and was hit by an untraced truck, while the widow alleged assault. The Court held it indisputable that a Bilaspur man died in police custody and that his personal liberty was deprived by the police. It allowed the petition, directing payment within three months with liberty to claim more in private law. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Chhattisgarh High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh to Ganeshi Bai for the death of her husband [name withheld] in police custody. Arrested in Crime No. 206/2005 under Section 25 of the Arms Act and being escorted to Central Jail Bilaspur by respondents 3 and 4, he died en route; police claimed he tried to escape and was hit by an untraced truck, while the widow alleged assault. The Court held it indisputable that a Bilaspur man died in police custody and that his personal liberty was deprived by the police. It allowed the petition, directing payment within three months with liberty to claim more in private law.",
 "court_quote": "it would be just and proper to award a sum of Rs.2,00,000/-. The respondent/State is directed to pay the said amount to the petitioner within a period of three months.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Escort-custody death with untraced-truck cover story rejected; Rs 2L compensation allowed.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": "2013-04-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Chhattisgarh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Writ Petition (C) No. 5268 of 2007",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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)",
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "CHHATT-021",
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