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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0022",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0618",
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 "display_title": "XXXX v. State of Punjab",
 "display_title_redacted": "XXXX v. State of Punjab",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Kapurthala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sultanpur Lodhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sultanpur Lodhi Police Station",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "XXXX v. State of Punjab",
 "case_number": "CRM-M-40569-2024 (O&M)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Kirti Singh"
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 "judgment_date": "2024-12-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2024-06-26",
 "incident_year": 2024,
 "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": [
  "NDPS Act s.22"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Sultanpur Lodhi Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.25,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.79,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Sultanpur Lodhi Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sultanpur Lodhi 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/crm-m40569202403122024finalorder-575526.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-compensation-unjust-detention-for-carrying-paracetamol-277821"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Sultanpur Lodhi man @ a Sultanpur Lodhi man was booked in FIR 125 dated 26 June 2024 under Section 22 of the NDPS Act at Sultanpur Lodhi after 525 capsules were recovered from him, but the FSL report received by police on 31 August 2024 showed the tablets contained only acetaminophen (paracetamol). The High Court found police high-handedness in failing to act promptly on the FSL report and get the petitioner released, keeping him in unjust custody till High Court bail on 13 September 2024. The Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation payable within one month, with 50% recoverable from the salary of the erring official Sub-Inspector, and directed masking of the petitioner's name in digital records. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Sultanpur Lodhi man @ a Sultanpur Lodhi man was booked in FIR 125 dated 26 June 2024 under Section 22 of the NDPS Act at Sultanpur Lodhi after 525 capsules were recovered from him, but the FSL report received by police on 31 August 2024 showed the tablets contained only acetaminophen (paracetamol). The High Court found police high-handedness in failing to act promptly on the FSL report and get the petitioner released, keeping him in unjust custody till High Court bail on 13 September 2024. The Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation payable within one month, with 50% recoverable from the salary of the erring official Sub-Inspector, and directed masking of the petitioner's name in digital records.",
 "court_quote": "This Court is deeply troubled by the high-handedness of the police authorities which have flagrantly disregarded the fundamental rights of a citizen as envisaged in the Constitution of India. It is appalling to witness such blatant violation where those entrusted with duty to uphold the rule of law failed to perform their duties.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC order text verified from judgment PDF; Rs 2 lakh compensation with 50% recovery from erring SI.",
 "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": "2024-12-03",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "CRM-M-40569-2024 (O&M)",
   "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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   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-compensation-unjust-detention-for-carrying-paracetamol-277821",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-044",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}