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 "record_id": "CW-2021-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0885",
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 "display_title": "Munger Man vs The State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Munger Man vs The State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Munger",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Munger",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Munger Police (Durga immersion duty), Kotwali P.S. area",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Munger Man vs The State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 68 of 2021",
 "citation": "AIRONLINE 2021 PAT 267",
 "judges": [
  "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2021-04-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2021,
 "incident_date": "2020-10-26",
 "incident_year": 2020,
 "category": "Protest policing",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": true,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Munger",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police, Munger"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Various",
   "unit": "Munger Police (immersion duty)",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Various, Munger Police (immersion duty)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 18,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Munger man, age 18"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/patna-hc-compensation-in-munger-durga-pooja-firing-incident-state-bound-to-protect-citizens-lives-391627.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/40421264/",
  "https://livelaw-cnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/munger-firing-incident-supreme-court-upholds-patna-hc-order-granting-10l-compensation-to-bereaved-family-pending-investigation-394531.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 10,00,000 compensation to the father of 18-year-old a Munger man, an unarmed bystander killed in police firing on a Durga idol immersion procession at Munger on 26-10-2020. The court held the State strictly liable for safeguarding life, noting the petitioner's son was uninvolved in any violence and the probe had languished with the alleged firing arms never examined. It continued court-monitored CID investigation and left private-law remedies open; the Supreme Court dismissed the State's SLP on 04-06-2021, making the award final. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 10,00,000 compensation to the father of 18-year-old a Munger man, an unarmed bystander killed in police firing on a Durga idol immersion procession at Munger on 26-10-2020. The court held the State strictly liable for safeguarding life, noting the petitioner's son was uninvolved in any violence and the probe had languished with the alleged firing arms never examined. It continued court-monitored CID investigation and left private-law remedies open; the Supreme Court dismissed the State's SLP on 04-06-2021, making the award final.",
 "court_quote": "In the present case, there is no allegation that the petitioner's son was involved in any act of violence. Thus, in the light of the aforementioned discussions, this Court directs the State respondents to pay a sum of Rs.10 laks towards compensation to the petitioner who being the father of the deceased has remained in mental pains and sufferings and has to further remain in mental pain as also deprivation in his life on several counts because of the death of his young son.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 10L for 18-year-old bystander killed in Munger police firing on immersion procession; SLP dismissed 04-06-2021.",
 "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": "Protest policing",
   "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": "2021-04-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIRONLINE 2021 PAT 267",
   "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": []
  }
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}