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 "display_title": "Ichagarh Man vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
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 "case_title": "Ichagarh Man vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(PIL) No. 7197 of 2025",
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 "judges": [
  "Tarlok Singh Chauhan",
  "Rajesh Shankar"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-12-11",
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 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2025-11-19",
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 "category": "Custodial torture",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ichagarh man"
  }
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/175992496/",
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 "summary": "Treating a wife's letter as a suo motu PIL, the Jharkhand High Court examined the pre-dawn pickup and alleged custodial torture of an Ichagarh man at Ichagarh police station on 19-11-2025. The court described the alleged police conduct as unprecedented, noted CCTV cameras were never installed despite the Supreme Court's mandate, and treated the SP's suspension order as prima facie acknowledgment of lapses by the officers-in-charge of Ichagarh, Tiruldih and Nimdih police stations. Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Sube Singh, it directed Rs 1,50,000 interim compensation within one week, recoverable from the erring officials, and kept the PIL pending for further orders.",
 "summary_verified": "Treating a wife's letter as a suo motu PIL, the Jharkhand High Court examined the pre-dawn pickup and alleged custodial torture of an Ichagarh man at Ichagarh police station on 19-11-2025. The court described the alleged police conduct as unprecedented, noted CCTV cameras were never installed despite the Supreme Court's mandate, and treated the SP's suspension order as prima facie acknowledgment of lapses by the officers-in-charge of Ichagarh, Tiruldih and Nimdih police stations. Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Sube Singh, it directed Rs 1,50,000 interim compensation within one week, recoverable from the erring officials, and kept the PIL pending for further orders.",
 "court_quote": "This is probably a most unprecedented demonizing behavior on the part of the police perhaps one of the worst crime in a civilized society governed by the rule of law.",
 "court_quote_para": "29",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Suo motu PIL: HC found prima facie custodial torture at Ichagarh PS, ordered Rs 1.5L interim compensation; PIL continues.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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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   "date": "2025-12-11",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(PIL) No. 7197 of 2025",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "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)",
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  }
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