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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0037",
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 "display_title": "Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Guwahati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others",
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 "judgment_date": "2018-08-21",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2011-08-21",
 "incident_year": 2011,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:unclear",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": "unclear",
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   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Guwahati man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to advocate's clerk a Guwahati man for unauthorised detention and torture at Panbazar Police Station from 21 to 23 August 2011. The Court found he was kept confined without arrest and subjected to inhuman torture in connection with a bail-bond forgery probe ordered on a complaint by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, then let off. It directed the Commissioner of Police, Guwahati City to deposit the amount with the Registry within 60 days. The full judgment text sits behind paywalls; the operative direction is quoted identically in two independent legal databases. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to advocate's clerk a Guwahati man for unauthorised detention and torture at Panbazar Police Station from 21 to 23 August 2011. The Court found he was kept confined without arrest and subjected to inhuman torture in connection with a bail-bond forgery probe ordered on a complaint by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, then let off. It directed the Commissioner of Police, Guwahati City to deposit the amount with the Registry within 60 days. The full judgment text sits behind paywalls; the operative direction is quoted identically in two independent legal databases.",
 "court_quote": "Detention of the petitioner in police custody from 3 am of 22.8.2011 to 2:00 p.m. of 23.8.2011 and the violence inflicted upon him during that period in custody is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. It is not a case of negligence as opined by the Inquiry Officer in the departmental proceeding but is a case of grave misconduct.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Full text paywalled; detention/torture facts and Rs 2L direction verified verbatim in two databases.",
 "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": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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": "2018-08-21",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gauhati High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Gauhati High Court judgment 2018-08-21",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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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)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-024",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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