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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0176",
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 "display_title": "Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Palamu",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Rehla",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rehla Police Station, Palamu",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-04-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2006-09-10",
 "incident_year": 2006,
 "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",
  "Arms Act"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Rehla Police Station, Palamu",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Rehla Police Station, Palamu"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rehla man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 250000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75956446/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner's husband was arrested on 10 September 2006 by Rehla police and falsely implicated in an Arms Act case, and subsequently died unnaturally while in custody. Although jail authorities claimed death due to illness, the forensic science laboratory report detected pesticide (monocrotophos) in the viscera, and administrative inquiries confirmed the death occurred in custody. The Jharkhand High Court held that Article 21 was violated at the instance of concerned State officers and that the deceased was wrongfully deprived of his liberty, directing the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 2,50,000 compensation to the widow, recoverable from the erring officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The petitioner's husband was arrested on 10 September 2006 by Rehla police and falsely implicated in an Arms Act case, and subsequently died unnaturally while in custody. Although jail authorities claimed death due to illness, the forensic science laboratory report detected pesticide (monocrotophos) in the viscera, and administrative inquiries confirmed the death occurred in custody. The Jharkhand High Court held that Article 21 was violated at the instance of concerned State officers and that the deceased was wrongfully deprived of his liberty, directing the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 2,50,000 compensation to the widow, recoverable from the erring officers.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above it transpires that Article-21 of the Constitution of India has been violated at the instance of concerned officer of the respondent-State and the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the police authority.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for custodial death of petitioner's husband falsely implicated under Arms Act by Rehla police.",
 "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": "2023-04-24",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013",
   "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/75956446/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}