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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0049",
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 "display_title": "Sono Man vs The State Of Bihar & Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sono Man vs The State Of Bihar & Ors",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Jamui",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sono",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sono Police Station / Jamui District Jail",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sono Man vs The State Of Bihar & Ors",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 13577 of 2010",
 "citation": "AIR 2015 PATNA 141, (2015) 4 PAT LJR 277",
 "judges": [
  "Hemant Kumar Srivastava"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-03-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2010-04-11",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "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": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 21",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "unit": "Sono Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:named_only",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.05,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Sono Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 28,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sono man, age 28"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 2000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105046068/",
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court allowed a writ petition filed by Sunaina Devi seeking compensation for the custodial death of her husband, a Sono man, who died on April 11, 2010 after being arrested by Sono police and lodged in Jamui District Jail. The inquiry records and medical evidence revealed that the deceased was brought to jail with severe external injury marks, and the post-mortem doctor confirmed excessive hemorrhage from assault leading to cardiorespiratory failure. Holding that the fundamental right to life under Article 21 was violated by State officials while the deceased was in custody, the Court directed the State of Bihar to pay Rs. 20,00,000 compensation to the petitioner and the victim's family, with liberty to initiate disciplinary proceedings against responsible officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court allowed a writ petition filed by Sunaina Devi seeking compensation for the custodial death of her husband, a Sono man, who died on April 11, 2010 after being arrested by Sono police and lodged in Jamui District Jail. The inquiry records and medical evidence revealed that the deceased was brought to jail with severe external injury marks, and the post-mortem doctor confirmed excessive hemorrhage from assault leading to cardiorespiratory failure. Holding that the fundamental right to life under Article 21 was violated by State officials while the deceased was in custody, the Court directed the State of Bihar to pay Rs. 20,00,000 compensation to the petitioner and the victim's family, with liberty to initiate disciplinary proceedings against responsible officials.",
 "court_quote": "In the present case, it is prima facie established that fundamental right of the deceased was violated by the officials of State Government while he was lodged in jail custody and, therefore, in my view, the State cannot escape from the liabilities of making payment of compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC found custodial death due to assault in custody and awarded Rs. 20,00,000 compensation to deceased widow and family.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2015-03-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 2,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR 2015 PATNA 141, (2015) 4 PAT LJR 277",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105046068/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
 },
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}