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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0713",
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 "display_title": "Banur Man vs State of Punjab",
 "display_title_redacted": "Banur Man vs State of Punjab",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Patiala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Banur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Banur Police Station",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Banur Man vs State of Punjab",
 "case_number": "Criminal Miscellaneous No. 22334-M of 1996",
 "citation": "(1997) 4 RCR (Criminal) 176",
 "judges": [
  "R.L. Anand"
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 "judgment_date": "1997-08-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1991-09-01",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "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": [
  "CrPC 482"
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   "unit": "Banur Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Banur Police Station"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Banur man"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The High Court of Punjab and Haryana held the police of Police Station Banur responsible for the custodial death of a Banur man on 1 September 1991. The police claimed the detainee committed suicide by consuming cyanide during an escorted weapon recovery operation, but the Court determined that cyanide could not have been accessible to a person in continuous police custody without gross omission and negligence by police functionaries. While declining a CBI inquiry six years after the incident, the High Court held that constitutional protections extend even to suspects of shady character and directed payment of Rs 50,000 compensation to the deceased's mother. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court of Punjab and Haryana held the police of Police Station Banur responsible for the custodial death of a Banur man on 1 September 1991. The police claimed the detainee committed suicide by consuming cyanide during an escorted weapon recovery operation, but the Court determined that cyanide could not have been accessible to a person in continuous police custody without gross omission and negligence by police functionaries. While declining a CBI inquiry six years after the incident, the High Court held that constitutional protections extend even to suspects of shady character and directed payment of Rs 50,000 compensation to the deceased's mother.",
 "court_quote": "As I have fixed the responsibility on the functionaries of the State, I order the respondents to pay a sum of Rs. 50,000/- by way of compensation to the mother of the deceased.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Punjab & Haryana HC held Banur police responsible for custodial death of a Banur man by cyanide ingestion, awarding Rs 50,000 compensation to his mother.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1997-08-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1997) 4 RCR (Criminal) 176",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "PUNJAB-013",
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