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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0025",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0721",
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 "display_title": "New Delhi Man v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "New Delhi Man v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "South East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "New Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Badarpur, Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "New Delhi Man v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) 3851/2023",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Subramonium Prasad"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-03-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "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": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "PS Badarpur, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
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   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.64,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.57,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Badarpur, Delhi Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "PS Badarpur, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.28,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.74,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Badarpur, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "New Delhi man"
  }
 ],
 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/193126214/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3701179/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-compensation-man-illegal-detention-police-lockup-arrest-239438"
 ],
 "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Justice Subramonium Prasad) directed Delhi Police to pay Rs 50,000 to vegetable vendor a New Delhi man, who was picked up on a knife-attack complaint (DD No.85A) on 2 September 2022 and kept in the PS Badarpur lockup from 11:01 to 11:24 p.m. without any formal arrest, FIR or DD entry. Liability had been found in the 5 October 2023 judgment; the 12 March 2024 order holds that even half an hour's detention without due procedure violates liberty, that a mere censure is no deterrent, and orders a proper inquiry to fix responsibility and recover the sum from the officer concerned. Both SIs had been censured departmentally; respondent 4's appeal against the DCP's censure order was pending.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Justice Subramonium Prasad) directed Delhi Police to pay Rs 50,000 to vegetable vendor a New Delhi man, who was picked up on a knife-attack complaint (DD No.85A) on 2 September 2022 and kept in the PS Badarpur lockup from 11:01 to 11:24 p.m. without any formal arrest, FIR or DD entry. Liability had been found in the 5 October 2023 judgment; the 12 March 2024 order holds that even half an hour's detention without due procedure violates liberty, that a mere censure is no deterrent, and orders a proper inquiry to fix responsibility and recover the sum from the officer concerned. Both SIs had been censured departmentally; respondent 4's appeal against the DCP's censure order was pending.",
 "court_quote": "The time spent in the lock-up by the Petitioner, even for a short while, cannot absolve the police officers who have deprived the Petitioners of his liberty without following the due procedure established by law.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Delhi HC 12.03.2024 order verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 50,000 for half-hour lockup detention + recovery matches.",
 "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": "2024-03-12",
   "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": "W.P.(C) 3851/2023",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/193126214/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3701179/",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-compensation-man-illegal-detention-police-lockup-arrest-239438",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-069",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}