{ "record_id": "CW-2021-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0282", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Pravat Chandra Mohanty vs The State Of Odisha (with Pratap Kumar Choudhury vs State Of Odisha)", "display_title_redacted": "Pravat Chandra Mohanty vs The State Of Odisha (with Pratap Kumar Choudhury vs State Of Odisha)", "state": "Odisha", "district": "Cuttack", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Cuttack", "police_station_or_unit": "Purighat Police Station, Cuttack", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pravat Chandra Mohanty vs The State Of Odisha (with Pratap Kumar Choudhury vs State Of Odisha)", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 125-126 of 2021", "citation": "(2021) 3 SCC 529", "judges": [ "Ashok Bhushan", "Ajay Rastogi" ], "judgment_date": "2021-02-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "1985-05-04", "incident_year": 1985, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 324", "IPC 323", "IPC 471", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Pravat Chandra Mohanty", "rank": "Inspector", "unit": "Purighat Police Station, Cuttack", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Pravat Chandra Mohanty", "display": "Pravat Chandra Mohanty (Inspector)" }, { "name": "Pratap Kumar Choudhury", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Purighat Police Station, Cuttack", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.88, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Pratap Kumar Choudhury", "display": "Pratap Kumar Choudhury (Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Cuttack man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165413021/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162192708/", "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/custodial-violence-supreme-court-police-officers-compounding-169773", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/custodial-violence-abhorrent-unacceptable-crime-against-humanity-supreme-court" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On the night of 04/05-05-1985 a Cuttack man was called to Purighat PS, Cuttack, and beaten through the night with lathi/batten by Inspector and SI, dying in hospital; police fabricated an FIR with his forged signature to cover up. The trial court convicted both of culpable homicide (Section 304-II); the High Court acquitted of 304-II but convicted under Sections 324/323/471 read with 34 IPC with one year's SI plus Rs 3 lakh compensation. The Supreme Court affirmed the Section 324 conviction, refusing compounding since custodial violence is a crime against humanity and Article 21 violation. Given the appellants' 75+ age, it cut imprisonment to six months and added Rs 3.5 lakh each as compensation to the legal heirs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On the night of 04/05-05-1985 a Cuttack man was called to Purighat PS, Cuttack, and beaten through the night with lathi/batten by Inspector and SI, dying in hospital; police fabricated an FIR with his forged signature to cover up. The trial court convicted both of culpable homicide (Section 304-II); the High Court acquitted of 304-II but convicted under Sections 324/323/471 read with 34 IPC with one year's SI plus Rs 3 lakh compensation. The Supreme Court affirmed the Section 324 conviction, refusing compounding since custodial violence is a crime against humanity and Article 21 violation. Given the appellants' 75+ age, it cut imprisonment to six months and added Rs 3.5 lakh each as compensation to the legal heirs.", "court_quote": "The custodial violence on the deceased which led to the death is abhorrent and not acceptable in the civilized society. The offence committed by the accused is crime not against the deceased alone but was against humanity and clear violations of rights guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.", "court_quote_para": "40", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court upheld s.324 IPC conviction of 2 Purighat officers; 1yr->6mo + Rs 3.5L each over HC's Rs 3L.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2021) 3 SCC 529", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2021-02-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2021) 3 SCC 529", "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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165413021/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162192708/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/custodial-violence-supreme-court-police-officers-compounding-169773", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/custodial-violence-abhorrent-unacceptable-crime-against-humanity-supreme-court", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-09", "chunk-r07" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-009", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }