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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0019",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0174",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Jharkhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Man vs State of Jharkhand",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Ranchi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ranchi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Jharkhand",
 "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 187 of 2015",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "M.S. Ramachandra Rao",
  "Deepak Roshan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-11-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2012-06-29",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.57,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.54,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.65,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.5,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ranchi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 400000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/54706713/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75455348/"
 ],
 "summary": "A Ranchi man, an undertrial prisoner remanded in judicial custody and admitted to RINPAS Ranchi for psychotic depression, escaped on 29 June 2012 when the two police constables deputed to guard him were absent from their posts, and was found dead later that day on a railway track. Overruling the Single Judge's dismissal, the Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court held that the deceased was in legal custody and that the State had failed in its constitutional duty to protect his life. The High Court directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 4,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow under Article 226. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Ranchi man, an undertrial prisoner remanded in judicial custody and admitted to RINPAS Ranchi for psychotic depression, escaped on 29 June 2012 when the two police constables deputed to guard him were absent from their posts, and was found dead later that day on a railway track. Overruling the Single Judge's dismissal, the Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court held that the deceased was in legal custody and that the State had failed in its constitutional duty to protect his life. The High Court directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 4,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow under Article 226.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, from the facts narrated herein above, it is crystal clear that due to the negligence of the two constables who were deputed for custody of the husband of the petitioner, who was suffering from \"Psychotic Depression\", the appellant's husband escaped and finally his dead body was found.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Division Bench set aside writ court dismissal and awarded Rs 4 lakh compensation for death of undertrial who escaped RINPAS custody due to constable negligence.",
 "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": "Custodial death",
   "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": "2024-11-18",
   "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 400,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "L.P.A. No. 187 of 2015",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}