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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0029",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0600",
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 "display_title": "Kutta Man v. State of Karnataka and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kutta Man v. State of Karnataka and Another",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Kodagu",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kutta",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kutta Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kutta Man v. State of Karnataka and Another",
 "case_number": "CRL.P No. 7712 of 2026",
 "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 248",
 "judges": [
  "M. Nagaprasanna"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-07-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2026-04-19",
 "incident_year": 2026,
 "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": [
  "BNS 64(1)",
  "BNS 238",
  "BNS 239",
  "BNS 351",
  "BNS 3(5)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Arresting / Investigating Officer(s)",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Kutta Police Station, Kodagu",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Arresting / Investigating Officer(s), Kutta Police Station, Kodagu"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 55,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kutta man, age 55"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "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/2026/07/15/kahc0103716320261-686997.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/karnataka-high-court/illegal-arrest-5-lakh-compensation-kodagu-homestay-owner-us-tourist-rape-541365",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/karnataka-hc-orders-5-lakh-compensation-to-coorg-homestay-owner-illegally-arrested-for-not-reporting-rape-of-tourist",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-refuses-interfere-compensation-awarded-illegal-arrest-kodagu-homestay-case-551569"
 ],
 "summary": "The Karnataka High Court held that a Kodagu homestay owner's arrest by Kutta Police in April 2026, in a case over the alleged rape of a foreign guest, was illegal: the offences alleged against him personally were non-cognizable, he was not present when the alleged offence occurred, and the arrest did not comply with the safeguards in Arnesh Kumar and Sections 41/41A. He had been held for 13 days before bail. The High Court declined to quash the FIR but ordered the State to pay him Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation. On 22.09.2026 the Supreme Court dismissed the State of Karnataka's special leave petition against that order.",
 "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court held that a Kodagu homestay owner's arrest by Kutta Police in April 2026, in a case over the alleged rape of a foreign guest, was illegal: the offences alleged against him personally were non-cognizable, he was not present when the alleged offence occurred, and the arrest did not comply with the safeguards in Arnesh Kumar and Sections 41/41A. He had been held for 13 days before bail. The High Court declined to quash the FIR but ordered the State to pay him Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation. On 22.09.2026 the Supreme Court dismissed the State of Karnataka's special leave petition against that order.",
 "court_quote": "In the case at hand, in view of the preceding analysis, the arrest of the petitioner is held to be manifestly illegal and in patent violation of the guidelines laid down by the Apex Court in ARNESH KUMAR supra. The inevitable legal consequence of such a finding is that the petitioner becomes entitled to compensation payable by the State for the unlawful invasion of his liberty and dignity. This Court deems it appropriate to assess such compensation at ₹5,00,000/-, to be paid by the State to the petitioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary order verified: arrest declared illegal; Rs.5 lakh compensation; FIR quash refused.",
 "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": "2026-07-15",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 248",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [
  {
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "date": "2026-09-22",
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/23/51123202622374625order22-sep-2026-702080.pdf",
   "outcome": "dismissed"
  }
 ],
 "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": [
    "summary",
    "court_quote",
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Later proceedings: Supreme Court order of 22.09.2026 in SLP (Crl.) No. 16734/2026 read; summary rewritten from the High Court findings (the previous text was a verifier note)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-25",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/15/kahc0103716320261-686997.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/karnataka-high-court/illegal-arrest-5-lakh-compensation-kodagu-homestay-owner-us-tourist-rape-541365",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/karnataka-hc-orders-5-lakh-compensation-to-coorg-homestay-owner-illegally-arrested-for-not-reporting-rape-of-tourist",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-021",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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