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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0180",
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 "display_title": "Piri Village Man v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Piri Village Man v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Latehar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Piri village",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Garu Police Station (Garu P.S. Case No. 11 of 2022)",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Piri Village Man v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 402 of 2021",
 "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 29",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi"
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 "judgment_date": "2023-08-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2021-06-12",
 "incident_year": 2021,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police firing party",
   "unit": "Garu Police Station area, Latehar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police firing party, Garu Police Station area, Latehar"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 24,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Piri village man, age 24"
  }
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 "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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/jiramani-final-judgment-487985.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/latehar-encounter-jharkhand-high-court-fresh-investigation-5-lakh-compensation-wife-of-deceased-tribal-man-235813",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-orders-fresh-probe-police-killing-tribal-youth-orders-5-lakh-compensation-wife",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144029226/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 12 June 2021, 24-year-old tribal villager was shot dead near Piri village, Latehar, while hunting with fellow villagers for the Nem Sarhul festival; the hunters pleaded they were villagers, not Maoists, but security forces fired without warning. The State admitted the death was caused by a police bullet, yet the CID closed the FIR against the named police officials as a mistake of fact. The High Court held the closure report lacked bona fide, set it aside, and ordered de novo investigation by a fresh team within three months. It directed the State to pay Rs 5,00,000 compensation to the widow within four weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 12 June 2021, 24-year-old tribal villager B. S. was shot dead near Piri village, Latehar, while hunting with fellow villagers for the Nem Sarhul festival; the hunters pleaded they were villagers, not Maoists, but security forces fired without warning. The State admitted the death was caused by a police bullet, yet the CID closed the FIR against the named police officials as a mistake of fact. The High Court held the closure report lacked bona fide, set it aside, and ordered de novo investigation by a fresh team within three months. It directed the State to pay Rs 5,00,000 compensation to the widow within four weeks.",
 "court_quote": "Now it has been admitted that death has occurred due to the firing of the police that too innocent villager has been killed in the State of Jharkhand, where it has been claimed that the Tribals are being protected.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Admitted police-bullet killing of tribal hunter; closure set aside, de novo probe, Rs 5L to widow.",
 "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"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2023-08-14",
   "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": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 29",
   "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",
   "corrections_applied": [
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2023-0049 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here."
  }
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