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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0762",
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  "CWC-0179",
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 "display_title": "Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Latehar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Garu",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Garu Police Station, Latehar",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 509 of 2022",
 "citation": "2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 105",
 "judges": [
  "Ananda Sen"
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 "judgment_date": "2024-06-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2022-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2022,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
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 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Garu Police Station, Latehar",
   "role": "named_only",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Garu Police Station, Latehar"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Garu man"
  }
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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/1719927546984-547559.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-victim-police-brutality-wrongly-taken-custody-tortured-directs-recovery-from-accused-officer-262202",
  "https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-high-court-directs-compensation-of-rs-5-lakh-to-police-brutality-victim-funds-to-be-recovered-from-officer/"
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 "summary": "A Garu man was forcibly taken from his home in 2022 by Garu police led by SI, confined at the police station for three days and mercilessly assaulted with lathis to coerce an admission of helping naxals, then released when police realised he was the wrong person — facts the Court recorded as admitted by the State. The police had submitted a chargesheet against the SI and other officials, and the State had sanctioned only Rs 50,000 as compensation. The High Court held that Rs 50,000 was inadequate for such arbitrary torture of a citizen against whom there was no material, enhanced compensation to Rs 5,00,000 payable by the State within two weeks, and directed recovery of the amount from the torturing officials within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Garu man was forcibly taken from his home in 2022 by Garu police led by SI, confined at the police station for three days and mercilessly assaulted with lathis to coerce an admission of helping naxals, then released when police realised he was the wrong person — facts the Court recorded as admitted by the State. The police had submitted a chargesheet against the SI and other officials, and the State had sanctioned only Rs 50,000 as compensation. The High Court held that Rs 50,000 was inadequate for such arbitrary torture of a citizen against whom there was no material, enhanced compensation to Rs 5,00,000 payable by the State within two weeks, and directed recovery of the amount from the torturing officials within two months.",
 "court_quote": "The police officials in most arbitrary manner had taken law in their hands and had tortured a poor citizen of this Country without there being any material against him.",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court held the petitioner was illegally taken into custody and tortured for three days in a mistaken-identity case and enhanced compensation to Rs 5 lakh, recoverable from the torturing officials.",
 "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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   "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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 "institutional_response": [
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   "date": "2024-06-22",
   "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": "2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 105",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
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