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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0017",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0173",
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 "display_title": "Dhanbad Man and Ors. vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Man and Ors. vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Dhanbad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhanbad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia Police Station, Dhanbad",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Dhanbad Man and Ors. vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 48 of 2017",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-07-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2015-06-23",
 "incident_year": 2015,
 "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. 226",
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 201",
  "CrPC s.176(1A)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "unit": "Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad",
   "role": "named_only",
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    "key2_union:unclear",
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   "key2": "no",
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   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.94,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.05,
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   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Munshi",
   "unit": "Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
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   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.93,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.04,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Munshi, Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Dhanbad man"
  }
 ],
 "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/58705178/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-widow-custodial-death-victim-232025",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/state-bound-for-compensation-for-violation-of-human-rights-for-custodial-death-1484101"
 ],
 "summary": "A Dhanbad man was taken into custody on 23 June 2015 by the Munshi of Ghanudih Outpost at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge, and was found dead the following morning inside the police lockup bearing severe physical injuries. A judicial inquiry by the CJM Dhanbad confirmed that the victim died in police custody due to police torture, despite police claims of suicide by hanging. Exercising writ jurisdiction under Article 226, the Jharkhand High Court held the State liable for violation of human rights and awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow and children, directing the Director General of Police to initiate departmental proceedings against the erring police officials with liberty to recover the compensation from them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Dhanbad man was taken into custody on 23 June 2015 by the Munshi of Ghanudih Outpost at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge, and was found dead the following morning inside the police lockup bearing severe physical injuries. A judicial inquiry by the CJM Dhanbad confirmed that the victim died in police custody due to police torture, despite police claims of suicide by hanging. Exercising writ jurisdiction under Article 226, the Jharkhand High Court held the State liable for violation of human rights and awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow and children, directing the Director General of Police to initiate departmental proceedings against the erring police officials with liberty to recover the compensation from them.",
 "court_quote": "State is bound for compensation for violation of human rights as death was occurred in police custody by the torture of the police officials.",
 "court_quote_para": "19",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation and directed departmental proceedings for custodial death of a Dhanbad man due to torture at Ghanudih police outpost.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "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": "2023-07-03",
   "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. 48 of 2017",
   "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": []
  }
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-widow-custodial-death-victim-232025",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-014",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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