{
 "record_id": "CW-2026-0058",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0882",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Nalanda",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Katauna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Giriyak Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad",
  "Sunil Dutta Mishra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": null,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2025-10-10",
 "incident_year": 2025,
 "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": [
  "Bihar Crime Control Act 2024 s.3(3)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Nalanda",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "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": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police, Nalanda"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Divisional Police Officer",
   "unit": "Rajgir, Nalanda",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "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": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Rajgir, Nalanda"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "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": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station House Officer, Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Katauna resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Katauna resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162543170/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://thebarbulletin.com/patna-hc-quashes-bihar-crime-control-act-orders-compensation/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Patna High Court quashed District Magistrate orders imposing Section 3(3) Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024 restrictions on two Nalanda men, which required thrice-weekly attendance at Silao police station 40 km from home. The court held the orders were passed without subjective satisfaction or verification beyond an unverified police sanha, and that the SP Nalanda, the SDPO and the SHO police station had acted in haste in ignorance of the law, apparently to keep the petitioners out of the Assembly Election. It directed the State to pay each petitioner 1,00,000 compensation plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within one month, recoverable from the erring officials after hearing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court quashed District Magistrate orders imposing Section 3(3) Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024 restrictions on two Nalanda men, which required thrice-weekly attendance at Silao police station 40 km from home. The court held the orders were passed without subjective satisfaction or verification beyond an unverified police sanha, and that the SP Nalanda, the SDPO and the SHO police station had acted in haste in ignorance of the law, apparently to keep the petitioners out of the Assembly Election. It directed the State to pay each petitioner 1,00,000 compensation plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within one month, recoverable from the erring officials after hearing.",
 "court_quote": "We are constrained to observe that even the SP, Nalanda, the SDPO, Nalanda and the SHO, Giriyak Police Station, all have acted in haste without verification of the allegations made in the Sanha and they, being police officers, have shown complete ignorance of the law on the subject.",
 "court_quote_para": "39",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC quashed unverified BCC Act restrictions, held SP/SDPO/SHO acted in haste, awarded Rs 1L plus costs to each petitioner.",
 "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": "2026-09-11",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162543170/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://thebarbulletin.com/patna-hc-quashes-bihar-crime-control-act-orders-compensation/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-73"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-005",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}