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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0193",
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 "display_title": "Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)",
 "case_number": "Company Application No. 96 of 2022 in Company Petition No. 26 of 2008",
 "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162",
 "judges": [
  "Suraj Govindaraj"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-07-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 2022,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Companies (Court) Rules 1959 r.6",
  "Companies (Court) Rules 1959 r.9"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Officer",
   "unit": null,
   "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",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Officer"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 56,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 56"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55329810/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-innocent-person-arrested-warrant-sop-dgp-203507"
 ],
 "summary": "The Karnataka High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a 56-year-old man who was wrongfully arrested by police under a company court warrant issued against an ex-director of a company in liquidation, solely because the applicant shared a similar father's name. Despite the applicant's explicit protests that he was not the person named in the warrant, the police failed to verify his identity. The court held that arresting an innocent person without identity verification violates Article 21, directed the State to pay compensation with liberty to recover from the arresting officers, and ordered the DGP Karnataka to frame SOP guidelines and train arresting officers on identity verification. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a 56-year-old man who was wrongfully arrested by police under a company court warrant issued against an ex-director of a company in liquidation, solely because the applicant shared a similar father's name. Despite the applicant's explicit protests that he was not the person named in the warrant, the police failed to verify his identity. The court held that arresting an innocent person without identity verification violates Article 21, directed the State to pay compensation with liberty to recover from the arresting officers, and ordered the DGP Karnataka to frame SOP guidelines and train arresting officers on identity verification.",
 "court_quote": "It is rather shocking that a person has been arrested without ascertaining whether he was the person who was required to be arrested and that the warrant had been issued against him. Though the arrestee had disputed that he was the person named in the warrant and the applicability of the warrant to him, his identification was not cross-checked and verified resulting an innocent person being arrested.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for illegal arrest of wrong person on warrant without identity verification, with liberty to recover from arresting police officers.",
 "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": "2022-07-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162",
   "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",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55329810/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-innocent-person-arrested-warrant-sop-dgp-203507",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-018",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}