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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0014",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0189",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Belagavi Man & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Man & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Belagavi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "District Armed Reserve (DAR), Belagavi (escort party)",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": "Dharwad",
 "case_title": "Belagavi Man & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 3401/2008 (GM-Police)",
 "citation": "2014 (3) AKR 428",
 "judges": [
  "H.N. Nagamohan Das"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-10-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2006-11-24",
 "incident_year": 2006,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector (ARSI)",
   "unit": "District Armed Reserve (DAR), Belagavi (escort party, Central Prison Hindalga)",
   "role": "unclear",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:unclear",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.93,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.07,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector (ARSI), District Armed Reserve (DAR), Belagavi (escort party, Central Prison Hindalga)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 65,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 65"
  },
  {
   "age": 21,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 21"
  },
  {
   "age": 34,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 34"
  },
  {
   "age": 31,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 31"
  },
  {
   "age": 37,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 37"
  },
  {
   "age": 40,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 40"
  },
  {
   "age": 38,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 38"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 7,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 35000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163383470/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (H.N. Nagamohan Das, J.) held that undertrial prisoners in Crime No. 62/2006 were produced before the JMFC, Belagavi, in handcuffs on 24.11.2006 without magisterial permission, in clear violation of the Supreme Court directions in the handcuffing cases. The Court held the admitted handcuffing infringed the petitioners dignity and human rights and directed the State to pay Rs 5,000 to each of the surviving petitioners (Rs 35,000 total), leaving it open to hold an enquiry against escort officer. Petitioner. 2 died during pendency and the petition abated as to him. The memo lists eight petitioners, so seven survivors receive compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (H.N. Nagamohan Das, J.) held that undertrial prisoners in Crime No. 62/2006 were produced before the JMFC, Belagavi, in handcuffs on 24.11.2006 without magisterial permission, in clear violation of the Supreme Court directions in the handcuffing cases. The Court held the admitted handcuffing infringed the petitioners dignity and human rights and directed the State to pay Rs 5,000 to each of the surviving petitioners (Rs 35,000 total), leaving it open to hold an enquiry against escort officer. Petitioner. 2 died during pendency and the petition abated as to him. The memo lists eight petitioners, so seven survivors receive compensation.",
 "court_quote": "The fact that the respondents brought the petitioners from the jail to the Court in handcuff is in clear violation of the directions issued by the Supreme Court",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Verified; corrected survivors to 7 named and subcategory to other (unlawful handcuffing).",
 "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": "2013-10-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 35,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2014 (3) AKR 428",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163383470/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}