{
 "record_id": "CW-2025-0062",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1342",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Dakshina Kannada",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dharmasthala Police Station, Bantwal Division",
 "court": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka",
 "case_number": "WP No. 11260 of 2025 (GM-POLICE)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "M. Nagaprasanna"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-09-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2022-12-17",
 "incident_year": 2022,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "Sections 302, 323, 392 r/w 34 IPC",
  "Sections 3(2)(v) and 3(2)(va) of SC/ST (POA) Act"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Bantwal Division, Dakshina Kannada",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bantwal Division, Dakshina Kannada"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "DCRB, S.P. Office, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, DCRB, S.P. Office, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Dakshina Kannada man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Dakshina Kannada man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155259619/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court allowed the writ petition holding the investigation in Crime No.91 of 2022 (Dharmasthala) was absolutely shoddy and directed re-investigation by a Special Investigation Team to be constituted within 4 weeks, to file its final report within 4 months, staying further proceedings in Special Case No.60 of 2023 till then.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court allowed the writ petition holding the investigation in Crime No.91 of 2022 (Dharmasthala) was absolutely shoddy and directed re-investigation by a Special Investigation Team to be constituted within 4 weeks, to file its final report within 4 months, staying further proceedings in Special Case No.60 of 2023 till then.",
 "court_quote": "what would unmistakably emerge is, absolute shoddy investigation.",
 "court_quote_para": "Judgment reasoning",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "summary names two officers in violation of no-names rule; court_quote is petitioner's representation extracted at pages 14-15 ('at para 13 to 16 has passed strictures'), not the judge's own words; summary falsely claims reinvestigation by CID and departmental inquiry ordered - operative order constitutes Special Investigation Team (SIT), expressly not CBI/CID, with no departmental direction in closing directions",
 "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": "2025-09-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "WP No. 11260 of 2025 (GM-POLICE)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155259619/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "swarm-verify-cop-ka-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-ka-hc-2",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}