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 "record_id": "CW-2020-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0501",
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 "display_title": "Cuttack Police Inspector v. State of Orissa; [name withheld] v. State of Orissa",
 "display_title_redacted": "Cuttack Police Inspector v. State of Orissa; [name withheld] v. State of Orissa",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Cuttack",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Cuttack",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Purighat Police Station",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Cuttack Police Inspector v. State of Orissa; [name withheld] v. State of Orissa",
 "case_number": "CRA Nos. 207 and 210 of 1988",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S.K. Sahoo"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2020-11-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2020,
 "incident_date": "1985-05-04",
 "incident_year": 1985,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 324",
  "IPC 471",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Purighat Police Station, Cuttack",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "sentence_reduced_only",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Purighat Police Station, Cuttack"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Purighat Police Station, Cuttack",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.07,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "sentence_reduced_only",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Purighat Police Station, Cuttack"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Cuttack man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Cuttack resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162192708/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/custodial-violence-orissa-hc-directs-septuagenarian-ex-cops-to-serve-imprisonment-in-35-year-old-custodial-death-case-165741"
 ],
 "summary": "The High Court partly allowed the appeals of an Inspector and a Sub-Inspector of Purighat station in the 1985 custodial-death case of a Cuttack man: it set aside the Section 304-II/34 and 342/34 convictions for want of proof but upheld the Section 323/34 and 471/34 convictions for using false seizure lists as genuine, additionally convicting both under Section 324/34. Both officers were ordered to surrender within two weeks to serve the concurrent sentences (maximum one year). The Court also awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation to the deceased's legal representatives for the custodial violence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court partly allowed the appeals of an Inspector and a Sub-Inspector of Purighat station in the 1985 custodial-death case of a Cuttack man: it set aside the Section 304-II/34 and 342/34 convictions for want of proof but upheld the Section 323/34 and 471/34 convictions for using false seizure lists as genuine, additionally convicting both under Section 324/34. Both officers were ordered to surrender within two weeks to serve the concurrent sentences (maximum one year). The Court also awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation to the deceased's legal representatives for the custodial violence.",
 "court_quote": "I have also held that there are some irregular features in the preparation of seizure list Ext.23/3 and the contents of seizure list Ext.42 are false.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; 304-II set aside but 323/471 upheld + 324 added with Rs.3L compensation.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Orissa High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Orissa High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "CRA Nos. 207 and 210 of 1988",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2020-11-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "CRA Nos. 207 and 210 of 1988",
   "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": [
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   ]
  }
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162192708/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/custodial-violence-orissa-hc-directs-septuagenarian-ex-cops-to-serve-imprisonment-in-35-year-old-custodial-death-case-165741",
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  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
 },
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "SWDERELI-011",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}