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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0262",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others",
 "state": "Meghalaya",
 "district": "West Garo Hills",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Tura",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Tura Police Station",
 "court": "Meghalaya High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others",
 "case_number": "WP(C) No. 213 of 2014",
 "citation": "2018 Cri LJ 2885",
 "judges": [
  "Tarun Agarwala",
  "S.R. Sen"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2018-02-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2014-05-12",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "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": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 18,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tura man, age 18"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173666772/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Meghalaya High Court (Division Bench) held that 18-year-old Class XII student, detained from the evening of 12-05-2014 and produced only on 14-05-2014, was beaten and assaulted by Tura police personnel and died on 20-05-2014 of injuries caused in police detention. The court relied on the CID investigation which disbelieved the police version and charge-sheeted police personnel, and found gross human-rights violation. Enhancing the State's deposited Rs 10 lakh, it awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to the mother. It directed departmental inquiries against the charge-sheeted policemen and the SP, proceedings against negligent doctors, scrutiny of the remand magistrate, and conclusion of the criminal trial within a year. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Meghalaya High Court (Division Bench) held that 18-year-old Class XII student, detained from the evening of 12-05-2014 and produced only on 14-05-2014, was beaten and assaulted by Tura police personnel and died on 20-05-2014 of injuries caused in police detention. The court relied on the CID investigation which disbelieved the police version and charge-sheeted police personnel, and found gross human-rights violation. Enhancing the State's deposited Rs 10 lakh, it awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to the mother. It directed departmental inquiries against the charge-sheeted policemen and the SP, proceedings against negligent doctors, scrutiny of the remand magistrate, and conclusion of the criminal trial within a year.",
 "court_quote": "A young life has been snuffed out on account of police brutality",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a — original judgment unnumbered; quote at p.13 of official PDF",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Meghalaya HC (DB) held police brutality killed Balsan Marak; Rs 15L + inquiries. Incident dated 12-05-2014 (detention start).",
 "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": "2018-02-28",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Meghalaya High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Meghalaya High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2018 Cri LJ 2885",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "officers",
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173666772/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
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  "chunk-r06"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-042",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}