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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0031",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0291",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-1447"
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 "display_title": "Cuttack Man vs State Of Odisha & Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Cuttack Man vs State Of Odisha & Others",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": "Cuttack",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Cuttack",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Lalbag Police Station",
 "court": "Orissa High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Cuttack Man vs State Of Odisha & Others",
 "case_number": "CRLMP No.790 of 2026",
 "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 87",
 "judges": [
  "R.K. Pattanaik"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-07-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2026-05-12",
 "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": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 63,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Cuttack man, age 63"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 30000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/bikram-mohapatra-v-state-of-odisha-690711.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/orissa-high-court/orissa-high-court-orders-enquiry-compensation-illegal-detention-forged-nbw-543745",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/53194397/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. A Cuttack man, a 63-year-old furniture shop owner, was arrested from his shop near Cuttack Chandi Mandir Chowk on 12 May 2026 by Lalbag Police Station on a purported non-bailable warrant in a 2001 criminal case. Subsequent judicial inquiries by the SDJM Bhubaneswar confirmed that the warrant was a counterfeit forgery bearing a fake court seal, and that Mohapatra had no connection whatsoever to the case. The Orissa High Court found the arrest and detention prima facie illegal in violation of Article 21. The Court awarded Rs. 30,000 interim compensation to the petitioner, recoverable from the police or court officials found responsible upon conclusion of inquiries by the SDJM and DCP Cuttack. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Cuttack man, a 63-year-old furniture shop owner, was arrested from his shop near Cuttack Chandi Mandir Chowk on 12 May 2026 by Lalbag Police Station on a purported non-bailable warrant in a 2001 criminal case. Subsequent judicial inquiries by the SDJM Bhubaneswar confirmed that the warrant was a counterfeit forgery bearing a fake court seal, and that Mohapatra had no connection whatsoever to the case. The Orissa High Court found the arrest and detention prima facie illegal in violation of Article 21. The Court awarded Rs. 30,000 interim compensation to the petitioner, recoverable from the police or court officials found responsible upon conclusion of inquiries by the SDJM and DCP Cuttack.",
 "court_quote": "Depending on the outcome of the enquiry to be held by the learned court below and also opposite party No.2, this Court is inclined to award a compensation of Rs.30,000/- (Rupees thirty thousand) payable to the petitioner in view of the illegal arrest and detention prima facie proved considering the materials on record, recovery of which, shall be from the police officials/staff whosoever responsible either of the P.S. concerned or the court below shall be subject to the result of enquiry held and concluded.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Orissa HC held arrest on forged NBW prima facie illegal detention violating Article 21, awarding Rs. 30,000 compensation recoverable from police/court personnel responsible.",
 "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": "2026-07-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Orissa High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 30,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 87",
   "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/bikram-mohapatra-v-state-of-odisha-690711.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/orissa-high-court/orissa-high-court-orders-enquiry-compensation-illegal-detention-forged-nbw-543745",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/53194397/",
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 "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": "ODISHA-015",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}