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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0030",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0866",
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 "display_title": "Bhadrak Man v. State of Odisha & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bhadrak Man v. State of Odisha & Ors.",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Bhadrak",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bhadrak Man v. State of Odisha & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 27928 of 2023",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. K. Panigrahi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-02-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2018-04-16",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "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": null,
   "unit": "Odisha Police escort party",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Odisha Police escort party"
  }
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 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bhadrak man, age 22"
  }
 ],
 "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/basanti-puhan-v-state-of-odisha-08-february-2024-528090.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/orissa-high-court/orissa-high-court-orders-compensation-death-police-custody-252283"
 ],
 "summary": "The Orissa High Court held that the death of 22-year-old a Bhadrak man, who fell from a running train on 16 April 2018 while being escorted by Odisha police from Kolkata to Bhadrak after his arrest in Goa, was a custodial death for which the authorities are responsible and the State vicariously liable. The Court found the police owed a duty of care to the arrested person and held that foul play could not be ruled out. Since investigation and departmental inquiry were still pending, the Court awarded Rs.2,00,000 as interim compensation. It directed the State to deposit the amount in the Court within ten weeks, without prejudice to the legal representatives' right to claim compensation in private law proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Orissa High Court held that the death of 22-year-old a Bhadrak man, who fell from a running train on 16 April 2018 while being escorted by Odisha police from Kolkata to Bhadrak after his arrest in Goa, was a custodial death for which the authorities are responsible and the State vicariously liable. The Court found the police owed a duty of care to the arrested person and held that foul play could not be ruled out. Since investigation and departmental inquiry were still pending, the Court awarded Rs.2,00,000 as interim compensation. It directed the State to deposit the amount in the Court within ten weeks, without prejudice to the legal representatives' right to claim compensation in private law proceedings.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, this Court comes to the conclusion that it is a case of custodial death and the authorities are responsible for the same.",
 "court_quote_para": "26",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC held death in police escort a custodial death and ordered Rs.2 lakh interim compensation.",
 "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": "2024-02-08",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) No. 27928 of 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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/basanti-puhan-v-state-of-odisha-08-february-2024-528090.pdf",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/orissa-high-court/orissa-high-court-orders-compensation-death-police-custody-252283",
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-44-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}