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 "display_title": "Kot Bhai Woman and Another vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kot Bhai Woman and Another vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Sri Muktsar Sahib",
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 "city_town": "Kot Bhai",
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 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Kot Bhai Woman and Another vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "case_number": "CWP No. 4222 of 2015 (O&M)",
 "citation": "AIR 2019 (NOC) 730 (P&H)",
 "judges": [
  "Arun Monga"
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 "judgment_date": "2019-05-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2012-09-30",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
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  "IPC 304-A"
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   "display": "Head Constable, Police Station Kot Bhai"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Kot Bhai woman"
  }
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1642800,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/191104770/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Kot Bhai woman was arrested on 29 September 2012 in an abetment-of-suicide case and lodged in the lock-up at Police Station Kot Bhai. On 30 September 2012 she collapsed after using the bathroom and died at Civil Hospital, Gidderbaha; the State called it suicide, not custodial death. A Section 176 CrPC judicial inquiry and the SP's report found negligence by police personnel, and FIR No.82 under Section 304-A IPC was registered against four policemen. The High Court held it was conceded that she died in police custody due to officials' negligence and allowed the writ, directing the State to disburse Rs.16,42,800 (less Rs.3 lakh interim already paid) with 15% penal interest on delay, apportioned between her parents and two minor children. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Kot Bhai woman was arrested on 29 September 2012 in an abetment-of-suicide case and lodged in the lock-up at Police Station Kot Bhai. On 30 September 2012 she collapsed after using the bathroom and died at Civil Hospital, Gidderbaha; the State called it suicide, not custodial death. A Section 176 CrPC judicial inquiry and the SP's report found negligence by police personnel, and FIR No.82 under Section 304-A IPC was registered against four policemen. The High Court held it was conceded that she died in police custody due to officials' negligence and allowed the writ, directing the State to disburse Rs.16,42,800 (less Rs.3 lakh interim already paid) with 15% penal interest on delay, apportioned between her parents and two minor children.",
 "court_quote": "Net result is that a Kot Bhai woman committed suicide while in police custody owing to the negligence of State Police.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held custodial death by police negligence; Rs.16,42,800 compensation ordered.",
 "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 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": "2019-05-03",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,642,800.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR 2019 (NOC) 730 (P&H)",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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