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 "display_title": "Lesliganj Man vs The State of Jharkhand",
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 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/109523448/",
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 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) held a Lesliganj man was a victim of custodial violence who died in police custody. The OIC-led party had seized him from his home at Lukuwa on 9 September 2014 when his son was absent; photographs and the post-mortem showed multiple injuries, fortifying that death was due to police torture and highhandedness with a concocted suicide story in a perfunctory final form. The Court held Article 21 violated, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation within four weeks recoverable from the erring officers (without precluding civil/criminal remedies), and directed the DGP Jharkhand to reopen and reinvestigate the case against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) held a Lesliganj man was a victim of custodial violence who died in police custody. The OIC-led party had seized him from his home at Lukuwa on 9 September 2014 when his son was absent; photographs and the post-mortem showed multiple injuries, fortifying that death was due to police torture and highhandedness with a concocted suicide story in a perfunctory final form. The Court held Article 21 violated, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation within four weeks recoverable from the erring officers (without precluding civil/criminal remedies), and directed the DGP Jharkhand to reopen and reinvestigate the case against the erring officials.",
 "court_quote": "The death has occurred due to torture and highhandedness of the police and concocted story of suicide has been made out by the police.",
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 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: custodial death by torture found; Rs 5 lakh + DGP reinvestigation ordered.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "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"
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   "date": "2023-04-26",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 50 of 2017",
   "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",
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