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 "display_title": "Koregaon, Taluka Kaij Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
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 "city_town": "Koregaon, Taluka Kaij",
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 "court": "Bombay High Court",
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 "case_title": "Koregaon, Taluka Kaij Man & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1451 of 2015",
 "citation": "AIRONLINE 2018 BOM 889",
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  "V. K. Jadhav"
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 "judgment_date": "2018-08-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2015-08-26",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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  "Constitution Art 21",
  "Constitution Art 22(1)"
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   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Koregaon, Taluka Kaij man"
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 "sentence_type": null,
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 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35329061/",
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 "summary": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition, holding there was a clear violation of the D.K. Basu mandate and sufficient material to infer that a Koregaon, Taluka Kaij man was subjected to custodial violence after being picked up on 26-08-2015 and dying the same day in Shivajinagar police custody. The court disbelieved the police story that he jumped from a running police van near Massajog, citing unrecorded detention, no medical examination, no intimation to relatives, and tampered handcuff-register entries. It awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation (Rs 2 lakh FD for the widow, Rs 50,000 for the father, Rs 50,000 FD for each of five minor children) with liberty to recover from the erring officials, directed registration of a Section 302 read with 34 IPC crime against the four policemen with State CID investigation monitored by the ADG CID Pune, and initiated suo motu contempt against PHC Rathod. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) allowed the writ petition, holding there was a clear violation of the D.K. Basu mandate and sufficient material to infer that a Koregaon, Taluka Kaij man was subjected to custodial violence after being picked up on 26-08-2015 and dying the same day in Shivajinagar police custody. The court disbelieved the police story that he jumped from a running police van near Massajog, citing unrecorded detention, no medical examination, no intimation to relatives, and tampered handcuff-register entries. It awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation (Rs 2 lakh FD for the widow, Rs 50,000 for the father, Rs 50,000 FD for each of five minor children) with liberty to recover from the erring officials, directed registration of a Section 302 read with 34 IPC crime against the four policemen with State CID investigation monitored by the ADG CID Pune, and initiated suo motu contempt against PHC Rathod.",
 "court_quote": "There is clear violation of mandate laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of D.K. Basu (supra), as much as prima facie, there is sufficient material to draw inference that deceased [name withheld] was subjected to custodial violence.",
 "court_quote_para": "20",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment text verified. Accused are police; adverse finding with compensation. Judgment spells Rathod's middle initial inconsistently (P. in para 21, H. in Order III(a)); recorded as Shankar Rathod. Departmental penalty (2-year increment stoppage for Rathod, [name withheld], [name withheld]) noted from State reply.",
 "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2018-08-16",
   "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": "AIRONLINE 2018 BOM 889",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "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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