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 "merged_id": "CWC-0751",
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 "display_title": "Puraini Boy vs The State Of Bihar",
 "display_title_redacted": "Puraini Boy vs The State Of Bihar",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Madhepura",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Puraini",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Puraini Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Puraini Boy vs The State Of Bihar",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3077 of 2025",
 "citation": "2026 (1) PLJR 611",
 "judges": [
  "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad",
  "Ritesh Kumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-01-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2025-10-23",
 "incident_year": 2025,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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   "unit": "Puraini Police Station, Madhepura",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Puraini Police Station, Madhepura"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector",
   "unit": "Madhepura, Bihar Police",
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   "display": "Inspector, Madhepura, Bihar Police"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Puraini boy, age 15",
   "name": null
  }
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  {
   "age": 15,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 15-year-old boy"
  }
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 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/md-jahid-minor-vs-state-of-bihar-patna-high-court-645963.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/patna-high-court/patna-high-court-slams-saharsa-police-25-month-illegal-detention-juvenile-5-lakh-compensation-518452",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/patna-high-court/md-jahid-minor-v-the-state-of-bihar-right-to-life-liberty-erring-officials-rs-5-lakh-unlawful-arrest-1604379",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/patna-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-for-illegally-jailing-teen-for-25-months"
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus writ for minor a 15-year-old boy, arrested on October 23, 2025 by IO of Puraini Police Station in Puraini PS Case No. 128 of 2025 even though the boy had been shown as not-chargesheeted in Chargesheet No. 235 dated September 1, 2025. Acting solely on a DIG Koshi Range supervision note without collecting fresh material or seeking court permission for further investigation, the IO described the boy as 19 and he spent over two and a half months incarcerated; the Juvenile later confirmed he was about 15 years 6 months at the time of occurrence. Holding his Right to Life and Liberty violated by misuse of police power, the Court ordered his forthwith release, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation plus Rs. 15,000 costs payable by the State within one month, and directed the DGP Bihar to hold an administrative inquiry and recover the sum from the erring officials within six months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus writ for minor, arrested on October 23, 2025 by IO of Puraini Police Station in Puraini PS Case No. 128 of 2025 even though the boy had been shown as not-chargesheeted in Chargesheet No. 235 dated September 1, 2025. Acting solely on a DIG Koshi Range supervision note without collecting fresh material or seeking court permission for further investigation, the IO described the boy as 19 and he spent over two and a half months incarcerated; the Juvenile later confirmed he was about 15 years 6 months at the time of occurrence. Holding his Right to Life and Liberty violated by misuse of police power, the Court ordered his forthwith release, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation plus Rs. 15,000 costs payable by the State within one month, and directed the DGP Bihar to hold an administrative inquiry and recover the sum from the erring officials within six months.",
 "court_quote": "In the entire facts and circumstances and the materials which have been brought before this Court, this Court is fully satisfied that the liberty of the petitioner in the present case has been curtailed and his Right to Life and Liberty has been violated by the act of the police officials.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC (DB) held arrest of 15-year-old Md. Jahid unlawful, ordered release and Rs. 5 lakh compensation plus Rs. 15,000 costs.",
 "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": [
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   "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"
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   "date": "2026-01-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026 (1) PLJR 611",
   "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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