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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0183",
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 "display_title": "Karmatand Man vs The State of Jharkhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Karmatand Man vs The State of Jharkhand",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Jamtara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Karmatand",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Karmatand Police Station",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Karmatand Man vs The State of Jharkhand",
 "case_number": "B.A. No. 1659 of 2022",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Ananda Sen"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-04-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "2021-07-01",
 "incident_year": 2021,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 306"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Karmatand Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Karmatand Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Karmatand man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16294620/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/ensure-innocents-arent-harassed-whim-investigating-officers-jharkhand-high-court-directs-dgp-196117"
 ],
 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court held that tribal neighbour a Karmatand man had been languishing in custody since 1 July 2021 for committing no offence whatsoever, having been chargesheeted in Karmatand P.S. Case No. 47 of 2021 solely because he sat beside Asha Devi's body after being called by her husband, with no overt act attributed to him in any witness statement. Observing the case shook the Court's faith in the investigating agency, the Court confirmed his interim bail, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation payable within four weeks through the Superintendent of Police, Jamtara, and directed the Director General of Police to sensitize investigating and supervising officers against harassing innocents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court held that tribal neighbour a Karmatand man had been languishing in custody since 1 July 2021 for committing no offence whatsoever, having been chargesheeted in Karmatand P.S. Case No. 47 of 2021 solely because he sat beside Asha Devi's body after being called by her husband, with no overt act attributed to him in any witness statement. Observing the case shook the Court's faith in the investigating agency, the Court confirmed his interim bail, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation payable within four weeks through the Superintendent of Police, Jamtara, and directed the Director General of Police to sensitize investigating and supervising officers against harassing innocents.",
 "court_quote": "He has been made to suffer for answering a call of humanity. His liberty was not only threatened, but was taken away by the State, whimsically, without there being any material against him.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC order verified on Indian Kanoon; innocent man jailed 9 months, Rs 50,000 + DGP sensitization.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2022-04-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "B.A. No. 1659 of 2022",
   "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16294620/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/ensure-innocents-arent-harassed-whim-investigating-officers-jharkhand-high-court-directs-dgp-196117",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}