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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0012",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0852",
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  "CWC-0933"
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 "display_title": "Sonamura Man and Others vs State of Tripura and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sonamura Man and Others vs State of Tripura and Others",
 "state": "Tripura",
 "district": "Sepahijala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sonamura (Balardhepa)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sonamura Police Station",
 "court": "Tripura High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Tripura High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sonamura Man and Others vs State of Tripura and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 797 of 2021",
 "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (Trip) 14",
 "judges": [
  "Indrajit Mahanty",
  "S.G. Chattopadhyay"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-06-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "2021-09-14",
 "incident_year": 2021,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Sonamura Police Station (arresting party and lock-up staff)",
   "role": "named_only",
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Sonamura Police Station (arresting party and lock-up staff)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sonamura man, age 27"
  }
 ],
 "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://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/rasheda-khatun-and-others-v-state-of-tripura-and-others-tripura-hc-423139.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://maktoobmedia.com/india/custodial-death-tripura-hc-orders-%e2%82%b910-lakh-compensation-for-muslim-youths-family/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/rasheda-khatun-and-others-v-state-of-tripura-and-others-tripura-hc-423139.pdf",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/custodial-death-tripura-high-court-orders-compensation-for-family-members-27year-old-victim-202216"
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 "summary": "The Tripura High Court (Division Bench) held that 27-year-old a Sonamura man @ a Sonamura man died of custodial torture in the Sonamura police lock-up in the night between 14-09-2021 and 15-09-2021. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem showing fresh ante-mortem injuries, the court rejected the State's 'fell while fleeing' version as suspicious and held custodial violence could not be brushed aside. It directed the State to deposit Rs 10 lakh with the Registry within four weeks, in equal shares for the widow, three minor children and mother (children's shares in term deposits). It clarified the observations would not bear on any prosecution in connection with the incident. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Tripura High Court (Division Bench) held that 27-year-old a Sonamura man @ a Sonamura man died of custodial torture in the Sonamura police lock-up in the night between 14-09-2021 and 15-09-2021. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem showing fresh ante-mortem injuries, the court rejected the State's 'fell while fleeing' version as suspicious and held custodial violence could not be brushed aside. It directed the State to deposit Rs 10 lakh with the Registry within four weeks, in equal shares for the widow, three minor children and mother (children's shares in term deposits). It clarified the observations would not bear on any prosecution in connection with the incident.",
 "court_quote": "In these highly suspicious facts and circumstances of the case custodial violence on the deceased, as alleged, cannot be brushed aside.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Tripura HC (DB) held custodial torture killed a Sonamura man in Sonamura lockup; Rs 10L in equal shares.",
 "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": "2022-06-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Tripura High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Tripura 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": "2022 LiveLaw (Trip) 14",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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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  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2022-0030 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here."
  }
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 "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-005",
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