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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Mortha Boy v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mortha Boy v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.",
 "state": "Andhra Pradesh",
 "district": "East Godavari",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mortha",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Samisragudem Police Station",
 "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
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 "case_title": "Mortha Boy v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 24721 of 2026",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Ninala Jayasurya",
  "T.C.D. Sekhar"
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 "judgment_date": "2026-08-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2026-08-19",
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "BNS s.331(4)",
  "BNS s.305-A",
  "JJ Act 2015",
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "SHO",
   "unit": "Samisragudem Police Station, East Godavari District",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "display": "SHO, Samisragudem Police Station, East Godavari District"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 17,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mortha boy, age 17"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2026/09/veligatla_venkata_narayana_v_state_of_andhra_pradesh_ors.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court/ap-high-court-orders-release-minor-treated-adult-imposes-personal-costs-police-officer-548698"
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 "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; police version is recorded at para 5 (Aadhar blur / 2006 impression). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; police version is recorded at para 5 (Aadhar blur / 2006 impression)",
 "court_quote": "This Court is of the considered opinion that it is a fit case to impose costs. Therefore, respondent No.4/SHO, Samisragudem Police Station, East Godavari District, shall personally pay costs of Rs.10,000/- to the A.P.High Court Legal Services Committee, Amaravati, within a period of one (1) week, from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "AP HC held minor's remand to Central Prison illegal and without jurisdiction; SHO personally to pay Rs 10,000 costs to HCLSC.",
 "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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 "institutional_response": [
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   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered compensation in an amount stated in the judgment.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Writ Petition No. 24721 of 2026",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court/ap-high-court-orders-release-minor-treated-adult-imposes-personal-costs-police-officer-548698",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
}