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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0065",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1348",
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 "display_title": "Thane Man vs The State Of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "Thane Man vs The State Of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Thane",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Badlapur (East) Police Station; Crime Branch, Thane; Mumbra Police; State CID",
 "court": "High Court of Judicature at Bombay",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Bombay",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Thane Man vs The State Of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 4107 OF 2024",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Revati Mohite Dere",
  "Neela Gokhale"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-04-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "State CID",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police, State CID"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Joint Commissioner of Police",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Crime, Mumbai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, Mumbai"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Commissioner of Police",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Thane Crime Branch",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Commissioner of Police, Thane Crime Branch"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Thane man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/147614739/",
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 "summary": "The High Court examined the police-van shooting death of an undertrial being escorted by a Thane Crime Branch team. The High Court held that the starting point of investigation, registration of an FIR, was itself not complied with. The High Court held that the PUCL guidelines on encounter investigations were cited only to be ignored by the State. The High Court held that refusal to investigate undermines the rule of law and ordered a fresh SIT probe.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court examined the police-van shooting death of an undertrial being escorted by a Thane Crime Branch team. The High Court held that the starting point of investigation, registration of an FIR, was itself not complied with. The High Court held that the PUCL guidelines on encounter investigations were cited only to be ignored by the State. The High Court held that refusal to investigate undermines the rule of law and ordered a fresh SIT probe.",
 "court_quote": "The starting point of any investigation i.e, registration of an FIR itself is not complied with.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 19",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.",
 "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": "2025-04-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Bombay",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Judicature at Bombay recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 4107 OF 2024",
   "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/147614739/",
   "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-mh-hc"
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 "merged_case_id": "cop-mh-hc-5",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}