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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0423",
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 "display_title": "Kolkata Man and Another vs The State of West Bengal and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Man and Another vs The State of West Bengal and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Kolkata",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kolkata",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kolkata Man and Another vs The State of West Bengal and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 33241 (W) of 2013",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Dipankar Datta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-03-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2012-04-12",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "IPC 509",
  "IT Act 2000 s.66A",
  "IPC 500",
  "IPC 114"
 ],
 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (R-4)",
   "unit": "Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (R-4), Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Additional Officer-in-Charge (R-5)",
   "unit": "Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Additional Officer-in-Charge (R-5), Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kolkata man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kolkata man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38644431/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://punjabtimes.com.au/2015/03/11/hc-directs-mamata-govt-to-compensate-ju-prof-for-arrest/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Jadavpur University professor a Kolkata man and his neighbour a Kolkata man were manhandled by a mob and then arrested by Purba Jadavpur police on the night of 12 April 2012 for circulating an email cartoon featuring the Chief Minister, spending the night in custody for bailable and non-cognizable offences. The State defended the detention as protective custody and rejected the WBHRC recommendation of Rs 50,000 compensation each plus departmental action. The Calcutta High Court held the arrests were in brazen violation of law, called the protective-custody plea a bogey, and upheld the WBHRC recommendation by awarding Rs 50,000 each plus Rs 50,000 costs. It directed disciplinary proceedings against the two respondent officers (R-4 and R-5, names redacted in the reported text) to be initiated within a month and taken to a logical conclusion. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Jadavpur University professor a Kolkata man and his neighbour a Kolkata man were manhandled by a mob and then arrested by Purba Jadavpur police on the night of 12 April 2012 for circulating an email cartoon featuring the Chief Minister, spending the night in custody for bailable and non-cognizable offences. The State defended the detention as protective custody and rejected the WBHRC recommendation of Rs 50,000 compensation each plus departmental action. The Calcutta High Court held the arrests were in brazen violation of law, called the protective-custody plea a bogey, and upheld the WBHRC recommendation by awarding Rs 50,000 each plus Rs 50,000 costs. It directed disciplinary proceedings against the two respondent officers (R-4 and R-5, names redacted in the reported text) to be initiated within a month and taken to a logical conclusion.",
 "court_quote": "Relief claimed is moulded by declaring that the petitioners' human rights were indeed violated by public servants; consequently, the State Government shall adequately compensate the petitioners. They shall be entitled to Rs. 50,000/- each as compensatory relief, to be released within a month from date of service of a certified copy of this judgment and order.",
 "court_quote_para": "71",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rs 50,000 each for illegal arrest over email cartoon; disciplinary proceedings directed.",
 "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": "2015-03-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 33241 (W) of 2013",
   "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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   "url": "https://punjabtimes.com.au/2015/03/11/hc-directs-mamata-govt-to-compensate-ju-prof-for-arrest/",
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 "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-004",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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