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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0287",
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 "display_title": "Dhenkanal Man and Another vs State Of Odisha & Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dhenkanal Man and Another vs State Of Odisha & Others",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Dhenkanal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhenkanal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dhenkanal Town Police Station",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
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 "case_title": "Dhenkanal Man and Another vs State Of Odisha & Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 13774 of 2005",
 "citation": "2021 LiveLaw (Ori) 13",
 "judges": [
  "Dr. S. Muralidhar",
  "Biswajit Mohanty"
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 "judgment_date": "2021-01-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2021,
 "incident_date": "2005-06-07",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Article 21",
  "Article 226",
  "Article 227"
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   "rank": "Inspector-in-Charge",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Dhenkanal Town Police Station"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Dhenkanal man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/custodial-death-matter-orissa-hc-5-lakh-388448.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/death-in-police-custody-orissa-high-court-5-lakh-as-compensation-to-parents-of-deceased-169225",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/175228761/"
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 "summary": "A Dhenkanal man was found writhing in pain inside a Dhenkanal liquor shop and brought into Dhenkanal Town Police Station at 3:20 AM on 7 June 2005. Despite his visibly precarious physical state, police left him unattended on the police station verandah for six hours without arranging medical treatment, and he subsequently succumbed to ante-mortem cranio-cerebral injuries. The Division Bench of the Orissa High Court held that regardless of whether police caused the initial injuries, keeping an injured arrestee in custody for six hours without medical attention constituted gross and fatal negligence attracting strict liability for custodial death under Article 21. The Court directed the State of Odisha to pay Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased parents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Dhenkanal man was found writhing in pain inside a Dhenkanal liquor shop and brought into Dhenkanal Town Police Station at 3:20 AM on 7 June 2005. Despite his visibly precarious physical state, police left him unattended on the police station verandah for six hours without arranging medical treatment, and he subsequently succumbed to ante-mortem cranio-cerebral injuries. The Division Bench of the Orissa High Court held that regardless of whether police caused the initial injuries, keeping an injured arrestee in custody for six hours without medical attention constituted gross and fatal negligence attracting strict liability for custodial death under Article 21. The Court directed the State of Odisha to pay Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased parents.",
 "court_quote": "Even if it is not established that the ante mortem injuries found on his person during post-mortem were caused by the Police, the law of strict liability for the negligence of the police in not meeting the basic minimum standard of care in providing him prompt medical attention would stand attracted. The police have to be held liable for the avoidable death of a Dhenkanal man, while in their custody, on account of their negligence.",
 "court_quote_para": "29",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC applied strict liability for custodial death arising from police negligence in delaying medical treatment to critically injured arrestee for six hours, awarding Rs. 5 lakh compensation.",
 "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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   "date": "2021-01-27",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2021 LiveLaw (Ori) 13",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
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