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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0955",
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 "display_title": "South East Delhi Man vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "South East Delhi Man vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "South East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
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 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Badarpur",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "South East Delhi Man vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2023 SCC OnLine Del 6215",
 "judges": [
  "Subramonium Prasad"
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 "judgment_date": "2023-10-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2022-09-02",
 "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 Art. 21"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Police Station Badarpur, Delhi Police",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Badarpur, Delhi Police"
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Badarpur, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "South East Delhi man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/judgementphp-4-496559.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-compensation-man-illegal-detention-police-lockup-arrest-239438",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/delhi-high-court-orders-two-police-officers-pay-50k-compensation-illegally-detaining-man-half-hour"
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Justice Subramonium Prasad) held the 2 September 2022 lock-up detention of a South East Delhi man at Badarpur police station for about 23 minutes without formal arrest, FIR or DD entry high-handed and violative of Article 21 and D.K. Basu. SI picked him up from a stabbing spot and SI placed him in the lock-up for no rhyme or reason. Holding the earlier departmental censure an insufficient deterrent and that police cannot be a law unto themselves, the Court awarded Rs 50,000 compensation recoverable from the two officers' salaries. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Justice Subramonium Prasad) held the 2 September 2022 lock-up detention of a South East Delhi man at Badarpur police station for about 23 minutes without formal arrest, FIR or DD entry high-handed and violative of Article 21 and D.K. Basu. SI picked him up from a stabbing spot and SI placed him in the lock-up for no rhyme or reason. Holding the earlier departmental censure an insufficient deterrent and that police cannot be a law unto themselves, the Court awarded Rs 50,000 compensation recoverable from the two officers' salaries.",
 "court_quote": "He was simply picked up from the spot, brought to the Police Station and placed inside the lock-up for no rhyme or reason.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 50k for 23-min illegal lock-up detention; recovery from 2 SIs' salaries.",
 "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": "2023-10-05",
   "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 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2023 SCC OnLine Del 6215",
   "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)",
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   "corrections_applied": []
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