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 "display_title": "Chincholi Kajale, Taluka Ausa Man v. State of Maharashtra",
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 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Latur",
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 "city_town": "Chincholi Kajale, Taluka Ausa",
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 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "bench": "Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "Chincholi Kajale, Taluka Ausa Man v. State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 251 of 2007",
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 "judges": [
  "Sunil K. Kotwal",
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 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2005-12-19",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "victims": [
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   "age": 32,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Chincholi Kajale, Taluka Ausa man, age 32"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": null,
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 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/161434986/",
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition of Shivabai, holding that her husband [name withheld] was illegally detained at Bhada Police Station from 19-12-2005 without arrest record and died in custody on 20-12-2005. The court rejected the police story that he hanged himself in the toilet during a 5-minute load-shedding blackout, finding illegal detention, violation of personal liberty, and dereliction of duty by the police. It directed the State to pay Rs 5,00,000 compensation within two months (9% interest on default) with liberty to recover from the defaulting Bhada staff after inquiry, and noted the pending prosecution of the four officers under Sections 306, 218 read with 34 IPC (Crime No. 16 of 2006). The prosecution in Crime No. 16 of 2006 (Sections 306 and 218 read with 34 IPC) against the respondent officers was pending before the trial court; this writ granted Rs 5 lakh State compensation with recovery from defaulting staff after inquiry, recording no finding against any individual. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition of Shivabai, holding that her husband [name withheld] was illegally detained at Bhada Police Station from 19-12-2005 without arrest record and died in custody on 20-12-2005. The court rejected the police story that he hanged himself in the toilet during a 5-minute load-shedding blackout, finding illegal detention, violation of personal liberty, and dereliction of duty by the police. It directed the State to pay Rs 5,00,000 compensation within two months (9% interest on default) with liberty to recover from the defaulting Bhada staff after inquiry, and noted the pending prosecution of the four officers under Sections 306, 218 read with 34 IPC (Crime No. 16 of 2006).",
 "court_quote": "Thus, obviously the detention of husband of the petitioner by Respondent Nos.6 to 9 at Police Station Bhada was illegal and the custodial death of deceased [name withheld] resulted only due to high handedness and dereliction of duty by police.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment text verified. Accused are police; adverse finding with compensation. Petition says deceased was 32; post-mortem notes say around 33. Magisterial inquiry (SDM Nilanga) additionally named P.C. N.G. Chavan and H.C. S.P. Bhande as responsible.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "allegations": [
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   "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"
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  {
   "date": "2017-07-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 251 of 2007",
   "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)",
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