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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0107",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-1431"
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 "display_title": "New Delhi Man vs Union of India",
 "display_title_redacted": "New Delhi Man vs Union of India",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "New Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "New Delhi (Barakhamba Road, Connaught Place)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "New Delhi Man vs Union of India",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) 6670/1998",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Prathiba M. Singh"
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 "judgment_date": "2022-04-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "1997-03-31",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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  {
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   "rank": "Assistant Commissioner of Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Crime Branch, Delhi Police",
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    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "no",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.81,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Delhi Police"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "New Delhi man"
  }
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 1500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30945257/",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/cp-shootout-416165.pdf",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/delhi-high-court-compensation-victim-1997-cp-shootout-197848"
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court awarded Rs 15,00,000 with 8% simple interest from the incident date plus Rs 2,00,000 in litigation costs to a New Delhi man, the survivor of the Connaught Place fake encounter of 31 March 1997. Grievously injured while his two friends were killed, he lives with shrapnel in his body and a disabled right arm, and his testimony as the key prosecution witness had convicted the ten policemen. The Court held that injury caused by State action where police officials stand convicted of criminal offences must be compensated at a higher standard than negligence cases, and that the 25-year delay must favour the petitioner who lost the prime of his life. An ad-hoc Rs 1,00,000 paid in 1999 was ordered to be adjusted. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court awarded Rs 15,00,000 with 8% simple interest from the incident date plus Rs 2,00,000 in litigation costs to a New Delhi man, the survivor of the Connaught Place fake encounter of 31 March 1997. Grievously injured while his two friends were killed, he lives with shrapnel in his body and a disabled right arm, and his testimony as the key prosecution witness had convicted the ten policemen. The Court held that injury caused by State action where police officials stand convicted of criminal offences must be compensated at a higher standard than negligence cases, and that the 25-year delay must favour the petitioner who lost the prime of his life. An ad-hoc Rs 1,00,000 paid in 1999 was ordered to be adjusted.",
 "court_quote": "Injury caused due to the state action and that too one, where the police officials were convicted of criminal offences and not some inaction or negligence, needs to be considered at higher standard as compared to those of ordinary cases of negligence and inaction.",
 "court_quote_para": "33",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Survivor awarded Rs 15L + interest + costs; verified from judgment text.",
 "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"
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 "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2022-04-26",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) 6670/1998",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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)",
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   "corrections_applied": []
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