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 "display_title": "Uttar Pradesh Man and Others v. State of U.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Uttar Pradesh Man and Others v. State of U.P.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
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 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Sojna",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Uttar Pradesh Man and Others v. State of U.P.",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 40 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya",
  "Prafulla Chandra Pant"
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 "judgment_date": "2014-10-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "1987-03-07",
 "incident_year": 1987,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Uttar Pradesh man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 1000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110740214/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court awarded a total of Rs.10 lakh to the widow and legal representatives of a Uttar Pradesh man, who died in PS Sojna custody on 8/9 March 1987 after a 2 a.m. altercation with drunken constables and a false Section 307 FIR against him. The order records that the guilty police officials stood convicted under Section 304 Part II with punishment enhanced by the Supreme Court itself from 2 to 5 years. The compensation, inclusive of Rs.5 lakh interim relief sanctioned by the State, was payable within two months with 6% default interest, recoverable from the three named guilty personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court awarded a total of Rs.10 lakh to the widow and legal representatives of a Uttar Pradesh man, who died in PS Sojna custody on 8/9 March 1987 after a 2 a.m. altercation with drunken constables and a false Section 307 FIR against him. The order records that the guilty police officials stood convicted under Section 304 Part II with punishment enhanced by the Supreme Court itself from 2 to 5 years. The compensation, inclusive of Rs.5 lakh interim relief sanctioned by the State, was payable within two months with 6% default interest, recoverable from the three named guilty personnel.",
 "court_quote": "An FIR was lodged against police officials who were convicted under Section 304 Part II by the Trial Court and the same was affirmed by this Court by enhancing the punishment from 2 years to 5 years imprisonment.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC compensation order text verified; Rs.10L for established 1987 custodial death, recovery from 3 named.",
 "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"
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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": "2014-10-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 40 of 2014",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
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  }
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