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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0021",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0057",
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 "display_title": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari Man And Another vs State Of J&K And Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari Man And Another vs State Of J&K And Others",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Jammu",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Phallian Mandal (Makwal), Satwari",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Phallian Mandal (Makwal), Police Station Satwari",
 "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh",
 "bench": "Jammu",
 "case_title": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari Man And Another vs State Of J&K And Others",
 "case_number": "OWP No. 791/2009 (O&M)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rajnesh Oswal"
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 "judgment_date": "2023-08-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2007-02-17",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "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": [
  "RPC 302",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "In-charge and personnel on duty",
   "unit": "Police Post Phallian Mandal (Makwal), PS Satwari",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "In-charge and personnel on duty, Police Post Phallian Mandal (Makwal), PS Satwari"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 18,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari man, age 18"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 800000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106453139/",
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 "summary": "The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Jammu awarded compensation to the parents of 18-year-old a Phallian Mandal, Satwari man, picked up from home on February 17, 2007 by Police Post Phallian Mandal staff and found unconscious with visible injury marks at the post within about 90 minutes, later declared dead at hospital. A magisterial enquiry by the Additional District Development Commissioner Jammu held it a custodial death prima facie against the post's personnel; the Government accepted the report, paid Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia and registered FIR No. 201/2007 under Section 302 RPC at PS Satwari. Holding the State estopped from denying custodial death, the Court computed Rs. 9,00,000 total on Motor Vehicles Act principles and, adjusting the ex gratia already paid, directed payment of Rs. 8,00,000 with 6% interest from filing of the writ petition within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Jammu awarded compensation to the parents of 18-year-old a Phallian Mandal, Satwari man, picked up from home on February 17, 2007 by Police Post Phallian Mandal staff and found unconscious with visible injury marks at the post within about 90 minutes, later declared dead at hospital. A magisterial enquiry by the Additional District Development Commissioner Jammu held it a custodial death prima facie against the post's personnel; the Government accepted the report, paid Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia and registered FIR No. 201/2007 under Section 302 RPC at PS Satwari. Holding the State estopped from denying custodial death, the Court computed Rs. 9,00,000 total on Motor Vehicles Act principles and, adjusting the ex gratia already paid, directed payment of Rs. 8,00,000 with 6% interest from filing of the writ petition within two months.",
 "court_quote": "Once the Government has accepted the death as 'custodial death' and has paid sum of Rs. 1 lac as ex-gratia, the respondents are estopped from denying the death of the victim in police custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "J&K HC (Jammu) held 18-year-old a Phallian Mandal, Satwari man died in police custody at PP Phallian Mandal and awarded Rs. 8 lakh compensation (plus Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia already paid).",
 "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"
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 "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": "2023-08-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 800,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "OWP No. 791/2009 (O&M)",
   "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",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
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 "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-003",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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