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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0070",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-0595"
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 "display_title": "Katra Woman and Others v. Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Katra Woman and Others v. Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Others",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Reasi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Katra",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jammu and Kashmir Police (Katra dispersal force)",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Katra Woman and Others v. Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 118 of 2007",
 "citation": "2016 SCC OnLine SC 814",
 "judges": [
  "A. K. Sikri",
  "R. K. Agrawal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-08-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2007-08-07",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "Protest policing",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": true,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Katra woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 3,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 400000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/139222628/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/08/13/unfortunate-that-the-use-of-force-by-police-to-control-hooliganism-and-vandalism-by-the-protestors-results-in-public-anger-against-the-police/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/right-peaceful-protest-fundamental-right-sc",
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/688570/anita-thakur-ors-appellant-hash-govt-of-jk-ors-respondent/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Supreme Court held Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel misused power and violated the fundamental rights of three petitioners during the 7 August 2007 dispersal near Katra of about 2,000 Jammu migrant protesters marching to Delhi. The Court found initial force justified as the agitation turned violent, but held police continued the lathi charge beyond limits and kept beating all three petitioners even after overpowering and virtually apprehending them. Finding the petitioners partly to blame, the Court declined criminal action and a special investigation, granting only compensation of Rs 2 lakh to petitioner1 and Rs 1 lakh each to petitioner2 and 3. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel misused power and violated the fundamental rights of three petitioners during the 7 August 2007 dispersal near Katra of about 2,000 Jammu migrant protesters marching to Delhi. The Court found initial force justified as the agitation turned violent, but held police continued the lathi charge beyond limits and kept beating all three petitioners even after overpowering and virtually apprehending them. Finding the petitioners partly to blame, the Court declined criminal action and a special investigation, granting only compensation of Rs 2 lakh to petitioner1 and Rs 1 lakh each to petitioner2 and 3.",
 "court_quote": "On the other hand, even the police personnel continued the use of force beyond limits after they had controlled the mob. In the process, they continued their lathi charge. They continued to beat up all the three petitioners even after overpowering them.",
 "court_quote_para": "14",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Excessive post-control lathi charge held proved; Rs 4L total compensation; no criminal action.",
 "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": "Protest policing",
   "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": "2016-08-12",
   "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 400,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2016 SCC OnLine SC 814",
   "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://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/08/13/unfortunate-that-the-use-of-force-by-police-to-control-hooliganism-and-vandalism-by-the-protestors-results-in-public-anger-against-the-police/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/right-peaceful-protest-fundamental-right-sc",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/688570/anita-thakur-ors-appellant-hash-govt-of-jk-ors-respondent/",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}