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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Dhamtari Man v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dhamtari Man v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Dhamtari",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Arjuni",
 "court": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
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 "case_title": "Dhamtari Man v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "case_number": "WPCR No. 373 of 2025",
 "citation": "2025:CGHC:49571-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Ramesh Sinha",
  "Bibhu Datta Guru"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-10-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2025-03-31",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "name": null,
   "age": 41,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Dhamtari man, age 41"
  }
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 500000,
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 "primary_source_url": "https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025_oct_17170_1_2025_10_06.pdf",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. The Division Bench allowed the writ petition of Durga Devi Katholiya, holding the State liable for the custodial death of her 41-year-old husband [name withheld] at PS Arjuni, Dhamtari. The court found he was hale and hearty when produced before the CJM at 5 p.m. on 31 March 2025 but was declared dead three hours later with 24 ante-mortem injuries, the cause of death being asphyxia. It held the death was the result of custodial violence and police atrocities in breach of Article 21, and directed Rs 3 lakh to the widow (for herself and two minor children) and Rs 1 lakh each to the parents within eight weeks, with 9% interest on default. The court also directed sensitisation of police personnel and strict adherence to the D.K. Basu guidelines. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Division Bench allowed the writ petition of Durga Devi Katholiya, holding the State liable for the custodial death of her 41-year-old husband [name withheld] at PS Arjuni, Dhamtari. The court found he was hale and hearty when produced before the CJM at 5 p.m. on 31 March 2025 but was declared dead three hours later with 24 ante-mortem injuries, the cause of death being asphyxia. It held the death was the result of custodial violence and police atrocities in breach of Article 21, and directed Rs 3 lakh to the widow (for herself and two minor children) and Rs 1 lakh each to the parents within eight weeks, with 9% interest on default. The court also directed sensitisation of police personnel and strict adherence to the D.K. Basu guidelines.",
 "court_quote": "These circumstances leave no manner of doubt that the death was not natural but the result of custodial violence and police atrocities, in complete breach of the guarantee under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.",
 "court_quote_para": "28",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held death result of custodial violence; Rs 5 lakh compensation to family.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
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 "institutional_response": [
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   "date": "2025-10-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Chhattisgarh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2025:CGHC:49571-DB",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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