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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0042",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Lucknow Man v. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs and 2 Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Lucknow Man v. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs and 2 Others",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Gorakhpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Lucknow",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Cantt, Gorakhpur",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Lucknow Man v. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs and 2 Others",
 "case_number": "WRIT-C No. 26221 of 2024",
 "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 56 : 2026:AHC:14504-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Arindam Sinha",
  "Satya Veer Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-01-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2017-04-17",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "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(1)(ba)",
  "CrPC 203",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Police Station Cantt, Gorakhpur",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Cantt, Gorakhpur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Lucknow man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://livelaw-cnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/sunil-kandu-sunil-kumar-gupta-vs-secretary-ministry-of-home-affairs-and-2-others-2026-livelaw-ab-56-allahabad-high-court-653894.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-up-police-credible-information-1-lakh-compensation-wrongful-arrest-521856",
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 "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 20-1-2026) awarded Rs.1,00,000 compensation to a Lucknow man for his wrongful arrest on 17-4-2017 by Uttar Pradesh police in a Gorakhpur molestation case and 79 days in custody before bail. The court found the arresting officer had no credible information or reason to believe under section 41(1)(ba) CrPC, made no effort to locate witnesses or verify the spot, and later investigation showed the petitioner was not in Gorakhpur on the offence date, with the case ultimately dropped under section 203 CrPC in July 2022. The court held the arrest was not on procedure established by law and infringed the petitioner [name withheld] 21 right through arbitrary action of the arresting personnel. It noted the first investigating officer, Sub-Inspector, had already been punished in a departmental inquiry for negligence and ordered compensation payable within four weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 20-1-2026) awarded Rs.1,00,000 compensation to a Lucknow man for his wrongful arrest on 17-4-2017 by Uttar Pradesh police in a Gorakhpur molestation case and 79 days in custody before bail. The court found the arresting officer had no credible information or reason to believe under section 41(1)(ba) CrPC, made no effort to locate witnesses or verify the spot, and later investigation showed the petitioner was not in Gorakhpur on the offence date, with the case ultimately dropped under section 203 CrPC in July 2022. The court held the arrest was not on procedure established by law and infringed the petitioner [name withheld] 21 right through arbitrary action of the arresting personnel. It noted the first investigating officer, Sub-Inspector, had already been punished in a departmental inquiry for negligence and ordered compensation payable within four weeks.",
 "court_quote": "In the circumstances, fundamental right of petitioner under article 21 had been infringed by arbitrary and capricious action on part of the arresting police personnel, a public functionary and petitioner was a helpless victim of that act.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held wrongful arrest without credible information; Rs.1 lakh compensation for 79-day detention.",
 "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": [
  {
   "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": "2026-01-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Allahabad High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Allahabad High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 56 : 2026:AHC:14504-DB",
   "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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