{
 "record_id": "CW-2016-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0292",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Bhubaneswar Man vs State Of Orissa And Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bhubaneswar Man vs State Of Orissa And Others",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Khordha",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bhubaneswar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Saheed Nagar Police Station",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bhubaneswar Man vs State Of Orissa And Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 13941 of 2012",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Dr. B.R. Sarangi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-01-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2012-06-05",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "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": [
  "Article 21",
  "Article 226",
  "Article 227"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Alok Kumar Jena",
   "rank": "Inspector In-Charge",
   "unit": "Saheed Nagar Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.14,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.85,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Alok Kumar Jena",
   "display": "Alok Kumar Jena (Inspector In-Charge)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Banamali Das",
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Saheed Nagar Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.12,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.79,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Banamali Das",
   "display": "Banamali Das (Assistant Sub-Inspector)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bhubaneswar man, age 27"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144823053/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/111047/rabindranath-mohapatra-appellant-hash-state-of-orissa-respondent/",
  "https://sambadenglish.com/odisha-rights-body-victims-family-hail-cbi-probe-custodial-death/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. On 5 June 2012, 27-year-old a Bhubaneswar man was assaulted by members of the public after an altercation and brought injured to Saheed Nagar Police Station in Bhubaneswar. Rather than sending him immediately for medical treatment, police detained him for several hours to register a case and carry out spot investigation; he subsequently collapsed from pain and was declared dead upon arrival at Capital Hospital. Both the CBI inquiry and a Magisterial inquiry concluded that the death occurred in custody due to gross police negligence in withholding timely medical aid. The Orissa High Court held that the right to life under Article 21 encompasses access to emergency medical care, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased family, and directed that the full amount be recovered from IIC Alok Kumar Jena and IO Banamali Das. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 5 June 2012, 27-year-old a Bhubaneswar man was assaulted by members of the public after an altercation and brought injured to Saheed Nagar Police Station in Bhubaneswar. Rather than sending him immediately for medical treatment, police detained him for several hours to register a case and carry out spot investigation; he subsequently collapsed from pain and was declared dead upon arrival at Capital Hospital. Both the CBI inquiry and a Magisterial inquiry concluded that the death occurred in custody due to gross police negligence in withholding timely medical aid. The Orissa High Court held that the right to life under Article 21 encompasses access to emergency medical care, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased family, and directed that the full amount be recovered from IIC Alok Kumar Jena and IO Banamali Das.",
 "court_quote": "Allowing a Bhubaneswar man @ Pigi (deceased) to remain in police station and directing for investigation without taking proper care of the injured a Bhubaneswar man @ Pigi itself indicates that due care has not been taken by the police authority causing negligence in their duty. Therefore, failure to provide timely medical treatment amounts to breach of right to life.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC held failure to provide timely medical care to injured arrestee caused death in police custody violating Article 21, awarding Rs. 5 lakh compensation recoverable from IIC and IO.",
 "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": "2016-01-28",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) No. 13941 of 2012",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144823053/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/111047/rabindranath-mohapatra-appellant-hash-state-of-orissa-respondent/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sambadenglish.com/odisha-rights-body-victims-family-hail-cbi-probe-custodial-death/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "ODISHA-016",
 "officers_named_public": 2,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}