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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0280",
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  "CWC-0869"
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 "display_title": "Chandrapur Man vs State Of Odisha And Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chandrapur Man vs State Of Odisha And Others",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Rayagada",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chandrapur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Chandrapur Police Station / CRPF camp, Rayagada",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chandrapur Man vs State Of Odisha And Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 13508 of 2010",
 "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 38",
 "judges": [
  "S. Muralidhar",
  "M.S. Raman"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-03-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2010-06-03",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "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. 14",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 22"
 ],
 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "CRPF Camp Rayagada / Chandrapur Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2_union:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.25,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.55,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, CRPF Camp Rayagada / Chandrapur Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chandrapur man"
  }
 ],
 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/55271959/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/orissa-high-court-custodial-death-tribal-man-compensation-wife-crpf-violation-of-article-22-of-constitution-legal-aid-224018",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/maria-kadaisma-kadaiska-salmina-v-state-of-odisha-15-march-2023-463947.pdf"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. Kandha tribal man a Chandrapur man, collecting firewood, was caught by CRPF personnel during combing operations near Gudari-Chandrapur, brought to the Chandrapur camp and mercilessly beaten, dying on 03-06-2010. The Orissa High Court (Chief Justice's bench) rejected the exhaustion-after-long-walk story, relying on post-mortem injuries, the failure to explain custody injuries, and violation of Articles 14, 21 and 22 first by the CRPF and then the police. Holding both jointly liable for torturing him to death in custody after labelling him a Maoist, it awarded Rs 10 lakh total (Rs 5 lakh each by CRPF and Odisha State Police) within eight weeks (6% interest on delay). It also urged inquiry against government doctors who gave a questionable medical report. (Force recorded as state_police; liability joint with CRPF.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Kandha tribal man a Chandrapur man, collecting firewood, was caught by CRPF personnel during combing operations near Gudari-Chandrapur, brought to the Chandrapur camp and mercilessly beaten, dying on 03-06-2010. The Orissa High Court (Chief Justice's bench) rejected the exhaustion-after-long-walk story, relying on post-mortem injuries, the failure to explain custody injuries, and violation of Articles 14, 21 and 22 first by the CRPF and then the police. Holding both jointly liable for torturing him to death in custody after labelling him a Maoist, it awarded Rs 10 lakh total (Rs 5 lakh each by CRPF and Odisha State Police) within eight weeks (6% interest on delay). It also urged inquiry against government doctors who gave a questionable medical report. (Force recorded as state_police; liability joint with CRPF.)",
 "court_quote": "It is not a mere coincidence that the deceased tribal person who was tortured to death while in custody after being labelled a maoist with not even an iota of evidence belonged to the poorer sections of the society. He had no one to represent his interests or to give him legal assistance while in custody. The legal system appears to have completely failed him.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC (CJ bench) held tribal man tortured to death in custody; Rs 10L joint CRPF + Odisha police liability.",
 "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": "2023-03-15",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa 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": "2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 38",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2023-0038 (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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-25",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/orissa-high-court-custodial-death-tribal-man-compensation-wife-crpf-violation-of-article-22-of-constitution-legal-aid-224018",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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