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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0422",
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 "display_title": "Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Hooghly",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Uttarpara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarpara Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Tapabrata Chakraborty"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-07-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2003-09-04",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "IPC 302"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable (C-1172)",
   "unit": "Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.04,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.92,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (C-1172), Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 35,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Uttarpara man, age 35"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86219018/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84566491/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 4 September 2003 a Uttarpara man (35) was riding home on G.T. Road when he failed to stop at a night check; police constable shot him dead with his service revolver and then fabricated a firearm injury on himself to plead private defence. A Sessions Court convicted [name withheld] of murder with life imprisonment in April 2008, and a departmental enquiry held the firing intentional, excessive and unjustified; the State still rejected the mother's compensation claim. The Calcutta High Court held the infringement of the fundamental right established through the criminal verdict, rejected the State's limitation and scheme objections, and directed the State to pay a lump sum of Rs 3 lakh within eight weeks. On the mother's intra-court appeal a Division Bench in December 2022 upheld the findings and enhanced compensation by a further Rs 5 lakh (total Rs 8 lakh).",
 "summary_verified": "On 4 September 2003 a Uttarpara man (35) was riding home on G.T. Road when he failed to stop at a night check; police constable shot him dead with his service revolver and then fabricated a firearm injury on himself to plead private defence. A Sessions Court convicted [name withheld] of murder with life imprisonment in April 2008, and a departmental enquiry held the firing intentional, excessive and unjustified; the State still rejected the mother's compensation claim. The Calcutta High Court held the infringement of the fundamental right established through the criminal verdict, rejected the State's limitation and scheme objections, and directed the State to pay a lump sum of Rs 3 lakh within eight weeks. On the mother's intra-court appeal a Division Bench in December 2022 upheld the findings and enhanced compensation by a further Rs 5 lakh (total Rs 8 lakh).",
 "court_quote": "In the instant case, the infringement of fundamental right stands established inasmuch as the petitioner’s son has been murdered by a police personnel and the same stands proved through the verdict given by the competent criminal forum and furthermore in the instant case the sufferings of the petitioner has assumed more gruesome dimension since the perpetrator of the crime is a \"man in uniform\".",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rs 3 lakh compensation for unjustified police shooting; Article 21 violation held established.",
 "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": "2015-07-17",
   "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 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009",
   "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"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86219018/",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/",
   "link_checked": null
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84566491/",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}