{
 "record_id": "CW-2023-0040",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0421",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-0932",
  "CWC-1473"
 ],
 "display_title": "Titagarh Man vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Titagarh Man vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "North 24 Parganas",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Titagarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Titagarh Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Titagarh Man vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.",
 "case_number": "WPA 7882 of 2022",
 "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 116, 2023 Supreme(Cal) 500",
 "judges": [
  "Shampa Sarkar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-04-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2022-03-09",
 "incident_year": 2022,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 21",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226",
  "CrPC s.151",
  "NDPS Act 1985 s.21(c)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Titagarh Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.67,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.45,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Titagarh Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Titagarh man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/22026689/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court/calcutta-high-court-cctv-footage-destructed-lapses-arrest-2-lakh-compensation-man-implicated-falsely-ndps-act-police-227189",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/04/28/writ-petition-calcutta-high-court-police-atrocity-violation-fundamental-rights-compensation-scc-blog-legal-research-news/",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/calcutta-high-court-orders-2-lakh-compensation-lapses-mans-arrest"
 ],
 "summary": "The Calcutta High Court held that the arrest and detention of a Titagarh man by Titagarh police on March 9, 2022 demonstrated abuse of power and procedural irregularities. Shukla was picked up in plainclothes without notice following municipal elections, allegedly assaulted, and later booked under Section 21(c) of the NDPS Act, while police station CCTV footage was destroyed. The Court noted multiple lapses including unjustified invocation of Section 151 CrPC and destruction of material evidence. While declining to quash the chargesheet or transfer the investigation, the Court awarded Rs. 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner family for violation of human dignity, recoverable from erring officers after an inquiry by the Commissioner of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court held that the arrest and detention of a Titagarh man by Titagarh police on March 9, 2022 demonstrated abuse of power and procedural irregularities. Shukla was picked up in plainclothes without notice following municipal elections, allegedly assaulted, and later booked under Section 21(c) of the NDPS Act, while police station CCTV footage was destroyed. The Court noted multiple lapses including unjustified invocation of Section 151 CrPC and destruction of material evidence. While declining to quash the chargesheet or transfer the investigation, the Court awarded Rs. 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner family for violation of human dignity, recoverable from erring officers after an inquiry by the Commissioner of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate.",
 "court_quote": "However, the sequence of events and the discrepancies and irregularities which have been pointed out hereinabove indicate that the police authorities failed to discharge their duty in accordance with law. Disturbing features have been noticed by the court in the process of arrest of a Titagarh man on March 9, 2022, and further arrest on March 10, 2022 for commission of offence under the NDPS Act.",
 "court_quote_para": "37",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Calcutta High Court found police abuse of power, illegal detention, and destruction of station CCTV footage, awarding Rs. 2 lakh compensation.",
 "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": "2023-04-25",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 116, 2023 Supreme(Cal) 500",
   "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": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2023-0011 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-25",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/22026689/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court/calcutta-high-court-cctv-footage-destructed-lapses-arrest-2-lakh-compensation-man-implicated-falsely-ndps-act-police-227189",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/04/28/writ-petition-calcutta-high-court-police-atrocity-violation-fundamental-rights-compensation-scc-blog-legal-research-news/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-14"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}