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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0026",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0710",
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 "display_title": "Paithan Man vs The State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Paithan Man vs The State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar",
 "district_at_time": "Aurangabad",
 "city_town": "Paithan",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Paithan Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": "Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "Paithan Man vs The State of Maharashtra and Others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 2600 of 2019",
 "citation": "2024 INSC 232",
 "judges": [],
 "judgment_date": "2024-03-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2015-06-14",
 "incident_year": 2015,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "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": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Paithan Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
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   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Inspector, Paithan Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Paithan 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/2024-insc-232-1603200.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/somnath-v-the-state-of-maharashtra-2024-insc-232-high-handed-acts-police-ordinary-citizen-shame-justice-delivery-system-1527596"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Paithan man, a Scheduled Caste man arrested on 14 June 2015 in a theft case, alleged illegal detention, assault and abuse by Police Inspector of Paithan Police Station. A Commission inquiry found excesses, and the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) directed the officer to pay Rs. 75,000 from his own pocket. The Supreme Court upheld that judgment and recorded its own finding that the officer, being in a position of power, totally abused his official position. It held him liable for a further Rs. 1,00,000 (paid during proceedings), refraining from directing criminal prosecution only because he had superannuated and paid compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Paithan man, a Scheduled Caste man arrested on 14 June 2015 in a theft case, alleged illegal detention, assault and abuse by Police Inspector of Paithan Police Station. A Commission inquiry found excesses, and the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) directed the officer to pay Rs. 75,000 from his own pocket. The Supreme Court upheld that judgment and recorded its own finding that the officer, being in a position of power, totally abused his official position. It held him liable for a further Rs. 1,00,000 (paid during proceedings), refraining from directing criminal prosecution only because he had superannuated and paid compensation.",
 "court_quote": "A zero-tolerance approach towards such high-handed acts needs to be adopted as such acts, committed by persons in power against an ordinary citizen, who is in a non-bargaining position, bring shame to the entire justice delivery system.",
 "court_quote_para": "23",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "2024 INSC 232 verified via Verdictum; SC finding of abuse of power with added Rs. 1 lakh from officer's pocket.",
 "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"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2024-03-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2024 INSC 232",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2024-insc-232-1603200.pdf",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/somnath-v-the-state-of-maharashtra-2024-insc-232-high-handed-acts-police-ordinary-citizen-shame-justice-delivery-system-1527596",
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}