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 "display_title": "Siwan Man v. The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Siwan Man v. The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Siwan",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Siwan",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Siwan Muffasil Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Siwan Man v. The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 2525 of 2017",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Bibek Chaudhuri"
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 "judgment_date": "2024-04-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2017-07-04",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 21",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226",
  "Indian Evidence Act 1872 s.106",
  "CrPC s.167(5)"
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   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Muffasil Police Station, Siwan"
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   "name": null,
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   "unit": "Town Police Station, Siwan",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Siwan man"
  }
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 "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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/dinesh-kumar-singh-v-the-state-of-bihar-ors-1612466.pdf",
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  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/dinesh-kumar-singh-v-the-state-of-bihar-ors-criminal-writ-jurisdiction-case-no2525-of-2017-patna-high-court-1532711",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2024/04/29/pathc-orders-department-of-police-to-pay-rs2lakh-compensation-to-man-subjected-to-custodial-violence-police-atrocity-legal-news/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149912002/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/patna-high-court/patna-high-court-2lakh-compensation-severe-torture-assault-police-custody-violence-256269"
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court held the Officer-in-Charge, lock-up in-charge and all personnel on duty at Siwan Muffasil Police Station lock-up on 4 July 2017 responsible for explaining how a Siwan man was assaulted with lathis in custody, failing which they are liable to be prosecuted. A Siwan man had been arrested on 4 July 2017 and produced before the magistrate only on 8 July 2017, after being beaten, kicked and punched in the lock-up. Applying Section 106 of the Evidence Act, the Court held the custodial facts were within the special knowledge of the police. The Court directed the Police Department to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered the Superintendent of Police, Siwan, to lodge a criminal complaint against the implicated personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held the Officer-in-Charge, lock-up in-charge and all personnel on duty at Siwan Muffasil Police Station lock-up on 4 July 2017 responsible for explaining how a Siwan man was assaulted with lathis in custody, failing which they are liable to be prosecuted. A Siwan man had been arrested on 4 July 2017 and produced before the magistrate only on 8 July 2017, after being beaten, kicked and punched in the lock-up. Applying Section 106 of the Evidence Act, the Court held the custodial facts were within the special knowledge of the police. The Court directed the Police Department to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered the Superintendent of Police, Siwan, to lodge a criminal complaint against the implicated personnel.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, applying the provision of Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, this Court comes to the conclusion that the Officer-in-charge, lock up in-charge and all other police officers and personnel who were on duty on 4th of July, 2017 from 2 P.M to 5 P.M. are responsible to state how and by whom the son of the petitioner was assaulted in the police lock up of Siwan Muffasil Police Station.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC held Siwan Muffasil PS lock-up personnel responsible for custodial assault on a Siwan man, awarding Rs 2,00,000 compensation and directing SP Siwan to lodge a criminal complaint.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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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   "date": "2024-04-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
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   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 2525 of 2017",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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