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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0195",
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 "display_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Woman vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Gangammana Gudi Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.H.C. No. 113/2025",
 "citation": "2026:KHC:3951-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Anu Sivaraman",
  "Vijaykumar A. Patil"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-01-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2025-10-14",
 "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",
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "CrPC s.41",
  "CrPC s.57",
  "CrPC s.167"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Gangammana Gudi Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.73,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.19,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Gangammana Gudi Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Gangammana Gudi Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Inspector, Gangammana Gudi Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/116434690/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "In a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of the detenue, the Karnataka High Court found that the detenue, a Bengaluru man, was illegally picked up and detained in custody at Gangammana Gudi Police Station from 14 October 2025 before an FIR was registered. The Division Bench declared the pre-FIR detention unlawful and violative of the constitutional safeguards under Article 21 and the statutory arrest procedures. The court ordered the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 in compensation along with Rs 50,000 in costs to the petitioner, granting liberty to recover the sums from the delinquent police officers following a departmental enquiry. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "In a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of the detenue, the Karnataka High Court found that the detenue, a Bengaluru man, was illegally picked up and detained in custody at Gangammana Gudi Police Station from 14 October 2025 before an FIR was registered. The Division Bench declared the pre-FIR detention unlawful and violative of the constitutional safeguards under Article 21 and the statutory arrest procedures. The court ordered the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 in compensation along with Rs 50,000 in costs to the petitioner, granting liberty to recover the sums from the delinquent police officers following a departmental enquiry.",
 "court_quote": "It is declared that the arrest of the husband of the petitioner (detenue) from 14.10.2025 till the filing of the first information report is illegal and contrary to the procedure of arrest.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC Division Bench held pre-FIR detention of petitioner husband illegal, awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation plus Rs 50,000 costs with recovery from erring officers.",
 "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": "2026-01-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026:KHC:3951-DB",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/116434690/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-010",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}