{
 "record_id": "CW-2023-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0424",
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 "display_title": "Mallarpur Boy vs State of West Bengal & Ors; Court on its own motion, In Re: Unnatural death of a teenaged boy in Mallarpur P. S., District - Birbhum",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mallarpur Boy vs State of West Bengal & Ors; Court on its own motion, In Re: Unnatural death of a teenaged boy in Mallarpur P. S., District - Birbhum",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Birbhum",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mallarpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mallarpur Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mallarpur Boy vs State of West Bengal & Ors; Court on its own motion, In Re: Unnatural death of a teenaged boy in Mallarpur P. S., District - Birbhum",
 "case_number": "WPA (P) 9 of 2020 with WPA (P) 13 of 2020",
 "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 107",
 "judges": [
  "T. S. Sivagnanam",
  "Hiranmay Bhattacharyya"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-04-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2020-10-29",
 "incident_year": 2020,
 "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 of India Art. 226",
  "Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 s.10",
  "West Bengal Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Rules 2017 Rule 8"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mallarpur boy, age 15"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/76171503/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court-state-govt-pay-15-lakh-compensation-family-teenager-died-police-custody-226477"
 ],
 "summary": "The Calcutta High Court, hearing a PIL alongside a suo motu writ petition, adjudicated the unnatural death of a 15-year-old boy in the custody of Mallarpur Police Station, Birbhum in October 2020. Finding that the minor had been kept in police lockup in direct violation of the Juvenile and the West Bengal Juvenile, 2017, the Court termed the incident a \"sorry state of affairs.\" The Court observed that the internal disciplinary punishment imposed on the stationed police personnel—stoppage of annual increment for one year—was thoroughly inadequate considering the gravity of the charge. The Division Bench directed the Government of West Bengal to pay Rs. 15 lakh compensation to the victim boy's family within 15 days and issued binding directions for statewide police sensitization. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court, hearing a PIL alongside a suo motu writ petition, adjudicated the unnatural death of a 15-year-old boy in the custody of Mallarpur Police Station, Birbhum in October 2020. Finding that the minor had been kept in police lockup in direct violation of the Juvenile and the West Bengal Juvenile, 2017, the Court termed the incident a \"sorry state of affairs.\" The Court observed that the internal disciplinary punishment imposed on the stationed police personnel—stoppage of annual increment for one year—was thoroughly inadequate considering the gravity of the charge. The Division Bench directed the Government of West Bengal to pay Rs. 15 lakh compensation to the victim boy's family within 15 days and issued binding directions for statewide police sensitization.",
 "court_quote": "On going through the reports and the factual matrix, we find that there is a sorry state of affairs in which a young boy of 15 years died in police custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Calcutta High Court found 15-year-old died in Mallarpur PS custody, condemned inadequate departmental punishment, and ordered Rs. 15 lakh compensation.",
 "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": "2023-04-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta 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": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 107",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/76171503/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court-state-govt-pay-15-lakh-compensation-family-teenager-died-police-custody-226477",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-14"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}