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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0034",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0598",
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 "display_title": "Bengaluru Man and Another v. R. Shruthi and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Man and Another v. R. Shruthi and Others",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vidyaranyapura Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bengaluru Man and Another v. R. Shruthi and Others",
 "case_number": "WP No. 30608 of 2015 (GM-POLICE)",
 "citation": "2026:KHC:40856",
 "judges": [
  "Suraj Govindaraj"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-08-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2014-08-16",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "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": [
  "CrPC 41",
  "CrPC 41A",
  "CrPC 438(3)",
  "Passports Act 1967"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Vidyaranyapura Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Vidyaranyapura Police Station, Bengaluru"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 68,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 68"
  },
  {
   "age": 31,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 31"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 900000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://thebarbulletin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/P-Javara-Setty-vs-R-Shruthi.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://thebarbulletin.com/karnataka-hc-compensation-illegal-arrest-anticipatory-bail/",
  "https://lawtrend.in/karnataka-high-court-mandates-14-day-inquiry-before-matrimonial-dispute-arrests/",
  "https://shoebhakim.com/karnataka-high-court-matrimonial-disputes-arrest-guidelines-2026-adv-shoeb-hakim/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man, protected by a subsisting anticipatory-bail order in a matrimonial complaint, was apprehended at Bengaluru airport on 16-08-2014 on a Look Out Circular, handed to the Vidyaranyapura Inspector, detained despite producing the bail order, and had his passport seized. The court held the LOC, arrest, detention and passport seizure illegal and violative of Sections 41, 41-A and 438(3) CrPC, the Passports Act and Article 21. It ordered the Commissioner of Police to pay Rs. 5 lakh to petitioner. 2 and Rs. 4 lakh to petitioner. 1 within twelve weeks, with liberty to recover from the Inspector after hearing. It also directed reconsideration of departmental action against the Inspector and statewide circulation of arrest safeguards for matrimonial disputes. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man, protected by a subsisting anticipatory-bail order in a matrimonial complaint, was apprehended at Bengaluru airport on 16-08-2014 on a Look Out Circular, handed to the Vidyaranyapura Inspector, detained despite producing the bail order, and had his passport seized. The court held the LOC, arrest, detention and passport seizure illegal and violative of Sections 41, 41-A and 438(3) CrPC, the Passports Act and Article 21. It ordered the Commissioner of Police to pay Rs. 5 lakh to petitioner. 2 and Rs. 4 lakh to petitioner. 1 within twelve weeks, with liberty to recover from the Inspector after hearing. It also directed reconsideration of departmental action against the Inspector and statewide circulation of arrest safeguards for matrimonial disputes.",
 "court_quote": "It is declared that the issuance of the Look Out Circular against Petitioner2, his arrest and detention on 16.08.2014, and the seizure of his passport, were illegal and in violation of Sections 41, 41-A and 438(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Passports Act, 1967, and the fundamental right of Petitioner2 to personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.",
 "court_quote_para": "order cl.(ii)",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary order verified: LOC/arrest/detention declared illegal; Rs.9 lakh total compensation.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-04",
   "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 900,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026:KHC:40856",
   "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://thebarbulletin.com/karnataka-hc-compensation-illegal-arrest-anticipatory-bail/",
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  {
   "url": "https://shoebhakim.com/karnataka-high-court-matrimonial-disputes-arrest-guidelines-2026-adv-shoeb-hakim/",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-019",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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