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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0020",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0578",
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 "display_title": "State Delhi Woman & Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "State Delhi Woman & Anr.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Shahdara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Mansarovar Park (FIR 103/2014)",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State Delhi Woman & Anr.",
 "case_number": "CRL.A. No. 229/2023",
 "citation": "2023:DHC:5910-DB; 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 725",
 "judges": [
  "Suresh Kumar Kait",
  "Neena Bansal Krishna"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-08-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2014-02-19",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 120B",
  "JJ Act 2000 s.23"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Delhi woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Delhi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/judgementphp-488050.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-investigation-unfair-compensate-murder-accused-infant-death-235845",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/murder-case-of-two-year-old-grandmother-father-accused-delhi-hc-grants-compensation-1491127"
 ],
 "summary": "After a 2-year-old's death in February 2014, Delhi Police (FIR 103/2014, PS Mansarovar Park) charged the paternal grandmother a Delhi woman and father [name withheld] with murder and cruelty; the trial court acquitted them of murder but convicted them under s.23 of the JJ Act 2000 (6 months, already undergone), which they were too poor to appeal. The Delhi High Court disposed of the State's appeal against the murder acquittal, holding the investigation terrible and unfair: a fall was never excluded, the rod/stick recovery was not exclusive knowledge, the father was at work, and the child's 5 kg weight showed chronic neglect rather than the alleged starvation. It set aside the JJ Act conviction in the interest of justice, awarded Rs.50,000 each at the cost of the prosecution, and cautioned prosecution agencies against casual appeals.",
 "summary_verified": "After a 2-year-old's death in February 2014, Delhi Police (FIR 103/2014, PS Mansarovar Park) charged the paternal grandmother a Delhi woman and father [name withheld] with murder and cruelty; the trial court acquitted them of murder but convicted them under s.23 of the JJ Act 2000 (6 months, already undergone), which they were too poor to appeal. The Delhi High Court disposed of the State's appeal against the murder acquittal, holding the investigation terrible and unfair: a fall was never excluded, the rod/stick recovery was not exclusive knowledge, the father was at work, and the child's 5 kg weight showed chronic neglect rather than the alleged starvation. It set aside the JJ Act conviction in the interest of justice, awarded Rs.50,000 each at the cost of the prosecution, and cautioned prosecution agencies against casual appeals.",
 "court_quote": "The present case is a classic example of terrible investigation at the hands of investigating agency of the prosecution, where despite lacking material substance against the respondents/accused, the prosecution floated the trial.",
 "court_quote_para": "24",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Delhi HC held terrible/unfair police investigation, set aside JJ Act conviction, awarded Rs.50k each.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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": "2023-08-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2023:DHC:5910-DB; 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 725",
   "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": []
  }
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-investigation-unfair-compensate-murder-accused-infant-death-235845",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/murder-case-of-two-year-old-grandmother-father-accused-delhi-hc-grants-compensation-1491127",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWFALSEI-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}