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Police, Gautam Buddha Nagar Commissionerate (Sector-39 / Sector-142 / Sector-14A Police Stations, Noida)", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Noida Woman vs Union of India and 4 Others", "case_number": "Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 960 of 2026", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 645", "judges": [ "Atul Sreedharan", "Achal Sachdev" ], "judgment_date": null, "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-04-11", "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": [ "BNS ss.191(1), 191(2), 115(2), 121(1), 125(a), 351(3), 352", "Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 1932 s.7", "NSA 1980 (detention order quashed)", "BNSS s.130", "Constitution Art.21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station, Gautam Buddha Nagar", "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": "SHO, Police Station, Gautam Buddha Nagar" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 24, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Noida woman, age 24" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/07/akriti-chaudhary-vs-union-of-india-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-645-allahabad-high-court-698671.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-nsa-detention-akriti-chaudhary-orwellian-dystopia-548946", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/noida-workers-protest-allahabad-high-court-quashes-nsa-detention-of-du-grad-akriti-chaudhary" ], "summary": "Replace closing boilerplate with the recorded State case (paras 15-21, 32) and add the limit: NSA detention quashed but petitioner remains in judicial custody as undertrial in other cases pending bail (paras 33-34).", "summary_verified": "Replace closing boilerplate with the recorded State case (paras 15-21, 32) and add the limit: NSA detention quashed but petitioner remains in judicial custody as undertrial in other cases pending bail (paras 33-34).", "court_quote": "this Court considers it sufficient to grant ₹5 lakhs as compensation to the petitioner. This Court also directs that the said amount must be recovered from the salary of the District Magistrate Gautam Buddha Nagar, who has passed this order of detention without application of mind and from all such other officers who may have been responsible, right down to the SHO of the Police Station, who had prepared the initial report warranting the detention of the petitioner under the provisions of the NSA.", "court_quote_para": "33", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC quashed NSA detention as violative of Art. 21; Rs.5 lakh compensation recoverable from DM down to SHO.", "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": "2026-09-02", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 645", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2026-09-13", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 13 September 2026, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: ); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=406136", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2026-09-13", "url": "https://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=406136", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/07/akriti-chaudhary-vs-union-of-india-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-645-allahabad-high-court-698671.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-nsa-detention-akriti-chaudhary-orwellian-dystopia-548946", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/noida-workers-protest-allahabad-high-court-quashes-nsa-detention-of-du-grad-akriti-chaudhary", "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-56", "chunk-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-4-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1952-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0391", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Agra Police Head Constable v. State", "display_title_redacted": "Agra Police Head Constable v. State", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Agra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agra", "police_station_or_unit": "Idgah outpost, Agra city", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Agra Police Head Constable v. State", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 1953 All 110", "judges": [ "Mukerji" ], "judgment_date": "1952-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1952, "incident_date": "1949-10-11", "incident_year": 1949, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)", "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Mahfooz Ali", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Idgah outpost, Agra city", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Mahfooz Ali", "display": "Mahfooz Ali (Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Agra man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1062066/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Mahfooz Ali, attached to Idgah outpost in Agra city, threatened complainant [name withheld] with prosecution under Section 420 IPC over a dispute regarding a promissory note, demanding Rs 50 (settled at Rs 20) as illegal gratification to submit a favourable enquiry report. An Agra man reported the extortion to town Congress representatives and the City Magistrate, leading to an anti-corruption trap on 11 October 1949 where marked currency notes were handed to the officer and recovered from his pocket. The Additional Sessions Judge, Agra, convicted him of criminal misconduct under Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 200. On appeal, the Allahabad High Court dismissed the challenge, rejecting technical defences regarding habitual misconduct and statutory warnings under Section 7, and affirmed the conviction and sentence in full.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable Mahfooz Ali, attached to Idgah outpost in Agra city, threatened complainant [name withheld] with prosecution under Section 420 IPC over a dispute regarding a promissory note, demanding Rs 50 (settled at Rs 20) as illegal gratification to submit a favourable enquiry report. An Agra man reported the extortion to town Congress representatives and the City Magistrate, leading to an anti-corruption trap on 11 October 1949 where marked currency notes were handed to the officer and recovered from his pocket. The Additional Sessions Judge, Agra, convicted him of criminal misconduct under Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 200. On appeal, the Allahabad High Court dismissed the challenge, rejecting technical defences regarding habitual misconduct and statutory warnings under Section 7, and affirmed the conviction and sentence in full.", "court_quote": "In my judgment, therefore, this appeal has no force and I accordingly dismiss it. The conviction and the sentence of the appellant is maintained. The appellant is on bail. He will immediately surrender to his bail and serve out his sentence.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC upheld conviction of Head Constable under s. 5(2) PC Act 1947 for extracting Rs 20 bribe, affirming 2 years RI and fine.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1953 All 110", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1952-09-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1953 All 110", "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/1062066/", "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-13" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-004", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1961-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1095", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "U.P. Police Inspector of Police (officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police) vs State of Uttar Pradesh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "U.P. Police Inspector of Police (officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police) vs State of Uttar Pradesh and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Anti-Corruption Department, U.P. Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "U.P. Police Inspector of Police (officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police) vs State of Uttar Pradesh and Others", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 490 of 1957", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. K. Das", "N. Rajagopala Ayyangar", "M. Hidayatullah", "K. C. Das Gupta", "J. C. Shah" ], "judgment_date": "1961-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1961, "incident_date": "1947-01-01", "incident_year": 1947, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act 1861 s.7", "U.P. Disciplinary Proceedings (Administrative Tribunal) Rules 1947", "Constitution Art. 14", "Constitution Art. 311" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police (officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "U.P. Police, Anti-Corruption Department", "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": "Inspector of Police (officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police), U.P. Police, Anti-Corruption Department" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/642587/jagannath-prasad-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-uttar-pradesh-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1916227/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 6 March 1961 dismissed with costs the appeal of [name withheld], a U.P. Police Inspector officiating as Deputy Superintendent in the Anti-Corruption Department, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that complaints of immorality, corruption and gross dereliction of duty led to an Administrative Tribunal enquiry, which recommended dismissal in February 1950, and the Governor dismissed him with effect from December 1950. The majority held the Governor's dismissal power was not ousted by the Police Act and the Tribunal procedure caused no prejudice or substantial Article 14 discrimination. The dismissal therefore stood; no criminal conviction arose on this record. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 6 March 1961 dismissed with costs the appeal of [name withheld], a U.P. Police Inspector officiating as Deputy Superintendent in the Anti-Corruption Department, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that complaints of immorality, corruption and gross dereliction of duty led to an Administrative Tribunal enquiry, which recommended dismissal in February 1950, and the Governor dismissed him with effect from December 1950. The majority held the Governor's dismissal power was not ousted by the Police Act and the Tribunal procedure caused no prejudice or substantial Article 14 discrimination. The dismissal therefore stood; no criminal conviction arose on this record.", "court_quote": "The Tribunal framed three charges against the appellant, and after a detailed survey of the evidence recommended on February 4, 1950, that the appellant be dismissed from service. The Governor then served a notice requiring the appellant to show cause why he should not be dismissed from service and after considering the explanation submitted by the appellant, the Governor ordered that the appellant be dismissed with effect from December 5, 1950.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC upheld dismissal of Inspector/DSP for corruption, immorality and dereliction.", "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": "1961-03-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Appeal No. 490 of 1957", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/642587/jagannath-prasad-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-uttar-pradesh-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1916227/", "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-97" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1962-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0500", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1477" ], "display_title": "Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Lakhimpur Kheri", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mailani", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Mailani, Kheri", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Subba Rao" ], "judgment_date": "1962-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1962, "incident_date": "1956-12-15", "incident_year": 1956, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 218" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Maulud Ahmad", "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Mailani Police Station, Kheri", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.98, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Maulud Ahmad", "display": "Maulud Ahmad (Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mailani man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mailani man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288544/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1962/november/maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh-insc-309-13-november-1962-11", "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=002691823000&title=maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh", "https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/1288544/?formInput=%22general%20diary%22" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. After a railway-party shoot killed a Mailani man and a Mailani man on the night of 14/15 December 1956, Head Constable Maulud Ahmad of PS Mailani entered a false antedated report in the General Diary showing Railway Guard Chauhan had deposited his gun the previous evening, creating alibi evidence to save Chauhan from prosecution. All co-accused were acquitted but the appellant alone was convicted under section 218 IPC and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment, affirmed by the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench). The Supreme Court held that the guard's acquittal did not exonerate the appellant since intent at the time of the false entry governed, and that section 42 of the Police Act barred only Police Act prosecutions. It dismissed the appeal, warning that manipulated police records would end honest investigation. Subcategory corrected to dereliction/evidence-tampering: the fabrication shielded an accused rather than implicating innocents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "After a railway-party shoot killed a Mailani man and a Mailani man on the night of 14/15 December 1956, Head Constable Maulud Ahmad of PS Mailani entered a false antedated report in the General Diary showing Railway Guard Chauhan had deposited his gun the previous evening, creating alibi evidence to save Chauhan from prosecution. All co-accused were acquitted but the appellant alone was convicted under section 218 IPC and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment, affirmed by the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench). The Supreme Court held that the guard's acquittal did not exonerate the appellant since intent at the time of the false entry governed, and that section 42 of the Police Act barred only Police Act prosecutions. It dismissed the appeal, warning that manipulated police records would end honest investigation. Subcategory corrected to dereliction/evidence-tampering: the fabrication shielded an accused rather than implicating innocents.", "court_quote": "In the view of the learned judge it was not established conclusively that Chauhan abetted the appellant in manipulating the record but that could not exonerate the appellant for it had been held on the evidence that the false entries had been made in the record by the appellant with a view to save Chauhan.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Head Constable's s.218 IPC conviction for antedated false GD entry upheld; 2 years RI.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1962-11-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961", "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/1288544/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1962/november/maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh-insc-309-13-november-1962-11", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=002691823000&title=maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/1288544/?formInput=%22general%20diary%22", "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-39", "chunk-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDERELI-010", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1963-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0934", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kairana Man v. Sri [name withheld] and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kairana Man v. Sri [name withheld] and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Shamli", "district_at_time": "Muzaffarnagar", "city_town": "Kairana", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Kairana", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kairana Man v. Sri [name withheld] and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1532 of 1962", "citation": "AIR 1965 All 161 : (1965) CriLJ 413", "judges": [ "Gyanendra Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "1963-10-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1963, "incident_date": "1961-10-15", "incident_year": 1961, "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": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 342", "IPC 109" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Kairana", "role": "convicted", "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": "Head Constable, Police Station Kairana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Kairana", "role": "convicted", "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": "Constable, Police Station Kairana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Kairana", "role": "convicted", "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": "Constable, Police Station Kairana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Kairana", "role": "convicted", "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": "Constable, Police Station Kairana" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Kairana man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "fine", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/292167/mohammad-ali-vs-sri-ram-swarup-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 16-10-1963) allowed the complainant appeal against acquittal and convicted Head Constable and Constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld] of Police Station Kairana under section 342/109 IPC. The court found that on 15-10-1961 the police party arrested homoeopath a Kairana man without warrant and detained him at the thana till the next morning, with proceedings under sections 107/117 CrPC later dropped for want of evidence. The court held only a non-cognizable offence was ever alleged (no section specified in the judgment), so section 151 CrPC could not justify the arrest, and section 79 IPC gave no protection. It set aside the Magistrate acquittal and fined the head constable100 and each constable50, with simple imprisonment in default. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 16-10-1963) allowed the complainant appeal against acquittal and convicted Head Constable and Constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld] of Police Station Kairana under section 342/109 IPC. The court found that on 15-10-1961 the police party arrested homoeopath a Kairana man without warrant and detained him at the thana till the next morning, with proceedings under sections 107/117 CrPC later dropped for want of evidence. The court held only a non-cognizable offence was ever alleged (no section specified in the judgment), so section 151 CrPC could not justify the arrest, and section 79 IPC gave no protection. It set aside the Magistrate acquittal and fined the head constable100 and each constable50, with simple imprisonment in default. The police version is not recorded in the cited text.", "court_quote": "In view of the above discussion, I allow the appeal, set aside the order of acquittal of the respondents recorded by the Magistrate and convict them u/s 342/109 I. P. C.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC reversed Magistrate acquittal; 4 Kairana police convicted for unlawful arrest and detention.", "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": "1963-10-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1965 All 161 : (1965) CriLJ 413", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/292167/mohammad-ali-vs-sri-ram-swarup-and-others/", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-1-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1970-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0958", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shikarpur Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Shikarpur Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Bulandshahr", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shikarpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Shikarpur", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shikarpur Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "case_number": "Second Appeal No. 323 of 1964", "citation": "AIR 1971 All 210", "judges": [ "M.N. Shukla" ], "judgment_date": "1970-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1970, "incident_date": "1959-04-10", "incident_year": 1959, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act 1861 s.7" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Shikarpur, Bulandshahr", "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": "Constable, Police Station Shikarpur, Bulandshahr" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shikarpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/298810/roshanlal-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "AIR 1971 All 210" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. The appellant, a constable at Police Station Shikarpur, Bulandshahr, was charged with other constables under section 7 of the Police Act for arresting a Shikarpur man on 10 April 1959, fracturing his legs, and concealing it with a false general-diary report. The Superintendent of Police dismissed him on 29 June 1959 after a departmental enquiry; his departmental appeal and revision failed, as did his civil suit in first appeal. The Court held the enquiry by the authorised Deputy Superintendent of Police was competent under the Police Regulations and the dismissal procedure valid. The Court dismissed the second appeal with costs, leaving the dismissal standing. No criminal prosecution outcome is recorded in this judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, a constable at Police Station Shikarpur, Bulandshahr, was charged with other constables under section 7 of the Police Act for arresting a Shikarpur man on 10 April 1959, fracturing his legs, and concealing it with a false general-diary report. The Superintendent of Police dismissed him on 29 June 1959 after a departmental enquiry; his departmental appeal and revision failed, as did his civil suit in first appeal. The Court held the enquiry by the authorised Deputy Superintendent of Police was competent under the Police Regulations and the dismissal procedure valid. The Court dismissed the second appeal with costs, leaving the dismissal standing. No criminal prosecution outcome is recorded in this judgment.", "court_quote": "He along with some other constables was charged u/s 7 of the Police Act for arresting a Shikarpur man on 10-4-1959 causing fracture on his legs and concealing the cause thereof by making a false report in the general diary.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed second appeal; 1959 dismissal for custodial assault causing fracture plus false GD entry stands.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "1970-07-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1971 All 210", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/298810/roshanlal-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "AIR 1971 All 210", "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-78" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-1-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1977-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1104", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Uttar Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "display_title_redacted": "State of Uttar Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Etah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Etah", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Uttar Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 2339 of 1968", "citation": "AIR 1977 SC 1680; (1977) 2 SCC 806", "judges": [ "P. N. Shinghal", "Y. V. Chandrachud", "P. K. Goswami" ], "judgment_date": "1977-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1977, "incident_date": "1954-01-01", "incident_year": 1954, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1947", "IPC" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Etah, Uttar Pradesh Police", "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-Inspector (confirmed), Etah, Uttar Pradesh Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/739415/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.legalauthority.in/judgement/state-of-uttar-pradesh-vs-nawab-hussain-33885" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 4 April 1977 allowed the State's appeal and dismissed former sub-inspector 's suit, leaving his 1954 corruption-based dismissal intact. The Court found that two cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code had been registered against the confirmed Etah SI following an anonymous complaint, and that he had been dismissed by the Deputy Inspector-General. It held that his plea that only the Inspector-General could dismiss him under Article 311(1) ought to have been raised in his earlier writ petition and was barred by constructive res judicata. The merits of the corruption charges were not re-examined, and no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 4 April 1977 allowed the State's appeal and dismissed former sub-inspector 's suit, leaving his 1954 corruption-based dismissal intact. The Court found that two cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code had been registered against the confirmed Etah SI following an anonymous complaint, and that he had been dismissed by the Deputy Inspector-General. It held that his plea that only the Inspector-General could dismiss him under Article 311(1) ought to have been raised in his earlier writ petition and was barred by constructive res judicata. The merits of the corruption charges were not re-examined, and no compensation was ordered.", "court_quote": "Two cases were registered against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored corruption-based dismissal of Etah SI on constructive res judicata; merits of PC Act charges not re-examined.", "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": "1977-04-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1977 SC 1680; (1977) 2 SCC 806", "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/739415/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.legalauthority.in/judgement/state-of-uttar-pradesh-vs-nawab-hussain-33885", "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-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1981-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0393", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Vishnu Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Vishnu Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Agra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Runkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Police outpost Runkata, PS Achhnera, Agra", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Vishnu Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh", "case_number": null, "citation": "1981 Cri LJ 1489", "judges": [ "P.N. Goel" ], "judgment_date": "1981-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1981, "incident_date": "1977-05-05", "incident_year": 1977, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)", "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)", "IPC 224" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Vishnu Prasad", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police outpost Runkata, PS Achhnera, Agra", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Vishnu Prasad", "display": "Vishnu Prasad (Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Runkata woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1786563/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Vishnu Prasad, in charge of police outpost Runkata under Achhnera Police Station in Agra, forcibly took complainant, a Runkata woman, from her home to a culvert outside her village and demanded a bribe of Rs 500 (settled at Rs 125) to stop harassing her family and release her. The complainant reported the matter to the Anti-Corruption CID, Agra, and a trap was laid on 5 May 1977 near Sudhir Petrol Pump, where initialled currency notes were handed to the officer. When the trap party moved in, the appellant threw the notes under a cot, resisted custody, and fled from police custody. The Special Judge, Agra, convicted him under Sections 161 and 224 IPC and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. On appeal, the High Court set aside the Section 161 IPC conviction (holding the extortionate act was an abuse of office rather than an official function), affirmed the convictions under Section 5(2) of the PC Act and Section 224 IPC, reduced the PC Act sentence to one year rigorous imprisonment, and directed that he be taken into custody.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable Vishnu Prasad, in charge of police outpost Runkata under Achhnera Police Station in Agra, forcibly took complainant, a Runkata woman, from her home to a culvert outside her village and demanded a bribe of Rs 500 (settled at Rs 125) to stop harassing her family and release her. The complainant reported the matter to the Anti-Corruption CID, Agra, and a trap was laid on 5 May 1977 near Sudhir Petrol Pump, where initialled currency notes were handed to the officer. When the trap party moved in, the appellant threw the notes under a cot, resisted custody, and fled from police custody. The Special Judge, Agra, convicted him under Sections 161 and 224 IPC and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. On appeal, the High Court set aside the Section 161 IPC conviction (holding the extortionate act was an abuse of office rather than an official function), affirmed the convictions under Section 5(2) of the PC Act and Section 224 IPC, reduced the PC Act sentence to one year rigorous imprisonment, and directed that he be taken into custody.", "court_quote": "Conviction of the appellant under Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 is affirmed but the sentence of two years R. I. awarded by the special Judge is reduced to R. I. for one year. Conviction and sentence of the appellant under Section 224, I.P.C. are affirmed. The sentences of imprisonment shall run concurrently. Appellant is on bail. He shall be taken into custody to serve out the sentence.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC affirmed Head Constable conviction under s. 5(2) PC Act 1947 and s. 224 IPC, reducing imprisonment to 1 year RI.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "1981 Cri LJ 1489", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1981-09-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "1981 Cri LJ 1489", "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/1786563/", "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-13" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-006", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1985-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0332", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1470" ], "display_title": "State of Uttar Pradesh v. Ram Sagar Yadav and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "State of Uttar Pradesh v. Ram Sagar Yadav and Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Fatehpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Fatehpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Hussainganj Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Uttar Pradesh v. Ram Sagar Yadav and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 69 of 1975", "citation": "(1985) 1 SCC 552; AIR 1985 SC 416", "judges": [ "Y.V. Chandrachud", "Amarendra Nath Sen" ], "judgment_date": "1985-01-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1985, "incident_date": "1969-08-29", "incident_year": 1969, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 220" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ram Sagar Yadav", "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Hussainganj Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ram Sagar Yadav", "display": "Ram Sagar Yadav (Station House Officer)" }, { "name": "Shobha Nath @ Pujari", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Hussainganj Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.87, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Shobha Nath @ Pujari", "display": "Shobha Nath @ Pujari (Constable)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Hussainganj Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "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": "Constable, Hussainganj Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Hussainganj Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "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": "Constable, Hussainganj Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Fatehpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/596213/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/853108/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Fatehpur man of village Haibatpur lodged a complaint with the Superintendent of Police, Fatehpur, against Constable for extorting a bribe in a cattle trespass dispute. In retaliation, Station House Officer Ram Sagar Yadav dispatched two constables to arrest a Fatehpur man on a trumped-up dacoity charge on 29 August 1969, where he was mercilessly beaten inside Hussainganj Police Station. When brought in a collapsed state to the Additional District Magistrate for remand, a Fatehpur man made a dying declaration naming the Darogah and constables before succumbing to nineteen injuries later that evening. The Sessions Judge convicted the SHO and three constables under Section 304 Part II IPC (and the SHO under Section 220 IPC), but the Allahabad High Court acquitted them. The Supreme Court reversed the High Court acquittal and affirmed the convictions and sentences, holding the dying declaration unimpeachable and famously recommending that the legislature amend the law on the burden of proof in custodial violence cases. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Fatehpur man of village Haibatpur lodged a complaint with the Superintendent of Police, Fatehpur, against Constable for extorting a bribe in a cattle trespass dispute. In retaliation, Station House Officer Ram Sagar Yadav dispatched two constables to arrest a Fatehpur man on a trumped-up dacoity charge on 29 August 1969, where he was mercilessly beaten inside Hussainganj Police Station. When brought in a collapsed state to the Additional District Magistrate for remand, a Fatehpur man made a dying declaration naming the Darogah and constables before succumbing to nineteen injuries later that evening. The Sessions Judge convicted the SHO and three constables under Section 304 Part II IPC (and the SHO under Section 220 IPC), but the Allahabad High Court acquitted them. The Supreme Court reversed the High Court acquittal and affirmed the convictions and sentences, holding the dying declaration unimpeachable and famously recommending that the legislature amend the law on the burden of proof in custodial violence cases.", "court_quote": "Police Officers alone, and none else, can give evidence as regards the circumstances in which a person in their custody comes to receive injuries while in their custody. Bound by ties of a kind of brotherhood, they often prefer to remain silent in such situations and when they choose to speak, they put their own gloss upon facts and pervert the truth.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court reversed High Court acquittal, restoring Sessions Court convictions of SHO and 3 constables under s. 304 Part II IPC for custodial death.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "1985-01-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1985) 1 SCC 552; AIR 1985 SC 416", "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/596213/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/853108/", "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-13", "chunk-16" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-002", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1988-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0476", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sheo Kumar Gupta, S.I. & Ors. v. State of U.P. (M. T. case)", "display_title_redacted": "Sheo Kumar Gupta, S.I. & Ors. v. State of U.P. (M. T. case)", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Baghpat", "district_at_time": "Meerut", "city_town": "Baghpat", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Baghpat", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sheo Kumar Gupta, S.I. & Ors. v. State of U.P. (M. T. case)", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 183 of 1988 and 168 of 1988", "citation": "(1988) 09 AHC CK 0047", "judges": [ "B.N. Katju", "G.K. 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"name_public": "Sheo Kumar Gupta", "display": "Sheo Kumar Gupta (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Jamadar Singh", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Baghpat", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Jamadar Singh", "display": "Jamadar Singh (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Ram Giri", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Baghpat", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", 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"later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Anand Giri", "display": "Anand Giri (Constable)" }, { "name": "Pratap Singh", "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Baghpat", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Pratap Singh", "display": "Pratap Singh (Constable)" }, { "name": "Sant Singh", "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Baghpat", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Sant Singh", "display": "Sant Singh (Constable)" }, { "name": "Subhash", "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Baghpat", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Subhash", "display": "Subhash (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 10, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Baghpat woman", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Baghpat man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Baghpat resident", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Baghpat resident", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "the complainant" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": null }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": null } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 4, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/303669/sheo-kumar-guptasi-and-ors-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://blog.ipleaders.in/custodial-rape/" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court upheld every conviction of the ten PS Baghpat policemen who, avenging an assault on a fellow Sub-Inspector, shot dead the complainant's husband and two others and stripped, assaulted and detained the complainant in June 1980. The Court held all appellants were members of an unlawful assembly guilty of the offences found by the trial court, including Section 354/149 with two years RI. It reduced the six death sentences to life imprisonment, upheld the four existing life terms and set aside the fines. The appellants on bail were ordered to be taken into custody forthwith. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court upheld every conviction of the ten PS Baghpat policemen who, avenging an assault on a fellow Sub-Inspector, shot dead Maya Tyagi's husband and two others and stripped, assaulted and detained Maya Tyagi in June 1980. The Court held all appellants were members of an unlawful assembly guilty of the offences found by the trial court, including Section 354/149 with two years RI. It reduced the six death sentences to life imprisonment, upheld the four existing life terms and set aside the fines. The appellants on bail were ordered to be taken into custody forthwith.", "court_quote": "The fact that Smt. [the complainant] was made naked and assaulted and taken to P. S. Baghpat from the place of occurrence indicates that she was the root cause of the incident. All the appellants were, therefore, members of an unlawful assembly and were guilty of the offences of which they have been convicted by the trial court.", "court_quote_para": "43", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld all convictions of 10 Baghpat policemen; death terms cut to life.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1988) 09 AHC CK 0047", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1988-09-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(1988) 09 AHC CK 0047", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/303669/sheo-kumar-guptasi-and-ors-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://blog.ipleaders.in/custodial-rape/", "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-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-004", "officers_named_public": 10, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1990-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0338", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kurebhar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Kurebhar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Sultanpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kurebhar", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Kure Bhar, Sultanpur", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kurebhar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of U.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 111 and 477 of 1979", "citation": "AIR 1990 SC 709; 1990 Supp SCC 656", "judges": [ "A.M. Ahmadi", "M. Fathima Beevi" ], "judgment_date": "1990-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1990, "incident_date": "1971-10-19", "incident_year": 1971, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 330", "IPC 201", "IPC 218", "IPC 34", "IPC 161", "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)", "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Rafiuddin Khan", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "PS Kure Bhar, Sultanpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.89, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rafiuddin Khan", "display": "Rafiuddin Khan (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Gauri Shankar Sharma", "rank": "Head Moharrir", "unit": "PS Kure Bhar, Sultanpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Gauri Shankar Sharma", "display": "Gauri Shankar Sharma (Head Moharrir)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kurebhar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/320189/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Kurebhar man was arrested from his residence on 19 October 1971 and beaten inside PS Kure Bhar by Sub-Inspector Rafiuddin Khan, sustaining 28 injuries before dying of shock and haemorrhage on 20 October 1971, after which false General Diary entries were posted to cover up the custodial death. The Special Judge, Sultanpur convicted the Sub-Inspector under Sections 304 Part II, 330, 201, 218/34 and 161 IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act, and Head Moharrir Gauri Shankar Sharma under Sections 201 and 218 IPC. The High Court acquitted the Sub-Inspector entirely while confirming the Moharrir with a reduced sentence. The Supreme Court dismissed the Moharrir's appeal and allowed the State's appeal, restoring the Sub-Inspector's conviction and sentence on all counts and directing his surrender, famously observing that death in police custody must be curbed with a heavy hand.", "summary_verified": "A Kurebhar man was arrested from his residence on 19 October 1971 and beaten inside PS Kure Bhar by Sub-Inspector Rafiuddin Khan, sustaining 28 injuries before dying of shock and haemorrhage on 20 October 1971, after which false General Diary entries were posted to cover up the custodial death. The Special Judge, Sultanpur convicted the Sub-Inspector under Sections 304 Part II, 330, 201, 218/34 and 161 IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act, and Head Moharrir Gauri Shankar Sharma under Sections 201 and 218 IPC. The High Court acquitted the Sub-Inspector entirely while confirming the Moharrir with a reduced sentence. The Supreme Court dismissed the Moharrir's appeal and allowed the State's appeal, restoring the Sub-Inspector's conviction and sentence on all counts and directing his surrender, famously observing that death in police custody must be curbed with a heavy hand.", "court_quote": "Death in police custody must be seriously viewed for otherwise we will help take a stride in the direction of police raj. It must be curbed with a heavy hand.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court restored SI Rafiuddin Khan's conviction (7 years u/s 304-II) for custodial death and dismissed Head Moharrir's appeal.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "1990-01-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1990 SC 709; 1990 Supp SCC 656", "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/320189/", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-001", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1994-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0334", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bareilly Woman v. State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Bareilly Woman v. State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Bareilly", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bareilly", "police_station_or_unit": "Chauki Chauraha outpost, Bareilly", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bareilly Woman v. State of U.P.", "case_number": null, "citation": "(1994) 6 SCC 565; AIR 1995 SC 117", "judges": [ "S. Mohan", "S.B. Majmudar" ], "judgment_date": "1994-10-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1994, "incident_date": "1993-07-23", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 32" ], "officers": [ { "name": "J.C. Upadhyay", "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Bareilly Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.41, "jev_p_culpable": 0.59, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "J.C. Upadhyay", "display": "J.C. Upadhyay (Station House Officer)" }, { "name": "Sukhpal Singh", "rank": "Senior Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bareilly Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.19, "jev_p_culpable": 0.66, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Sukhpal Singh", "display": "Sukhpal Singh (Senior Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Narendrapal Singh", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bareilly Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.17, "jev_p_culpable": 0.75, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Narendrapal Singh", "display": "Narendrapal Singh (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "K.C. Tyagi", "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Bareilly Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.42, "jev_p_culpable": 0.62, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "K.C. Tyagi", "display": "K.C. Tyagi (Investigating Officer)" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bareilly woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bareilly man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bareilly man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 25000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1506852/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Following an inter-religious or inter-caste marriage between a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man, Bareilly police unlawfully detained the couple and relatives in July 1993 under the pretext that a Bareilly woman had been abducted and raped. Police officers physically assaulted a Bareilly man and his brother with dandas and subjected a Bareilly woman to severe physical and psychological torture, poking a danda into her stomach and keeping her awake to compel her to falsely implicate her husband. The Supreme Court accepted the inquiry report of the District Judge, Bareilly, which thoroughly indicted the police for illegal arrest, physical torture, and fabrication of Section 161 CrPC statements. Condemning the uncivilized conduct of the police, the Supreme Court ordered criminal prosecution of all involved officers and directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to pay compensation of Rs 10,000 each to a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man and Rs 5,000 to each other illegally detained relative, recoverable personally from the officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Following an inter-religious or inter-caste marriage between a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man, Bareilly police unlawfully detained the couple and relatives in July 1993 under the pretext that a Bareilly woman had been abducted and raped. Police officers physically assaulted a Bareilly man and his brother with dandas and subjected a Bareilly woman to severe physical and psychological torture, poking a danda into her stomach and keeping her awake to compel her to falsely implicate her husband. The Supreme Court accepted the inquiry report of the District Judge, Bareilly, which thoroughly indicted the police for illegal arrest, physical torture, and fabrication of Section 161 CrPC statements. Condemning the uncivilized conduct of the police, the Supreme Court ordered criminal prosecution of all involved officers and directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to pay compensation of Rs 10,000 each to a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man and Rs 5,000 to each other illegally detained relative, recoverable personally from the officers.", "court_quote": "This clearly brings out not only high-handedness of the police but also uncivilised behaviour on their part. It is difficult to understand why Sukhpal Singh SSI assaulted a Bareilly woman on her leg with danda and poked it in her stomach.", "court_quote_para": "4", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court accepted District Judge report indicting Bareilly police for torture and fabrication, awarded compensation recoverable from officers.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "1994-10-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 25,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1994) 6 SCC 565; AIR 1995 SC 117", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1506852/", "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-13" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTH-002", "officers_named_public": 4, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0935", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Girwan Woman v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Girwan Woman v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Banda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Girwan", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Girwan, Banda", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Girwan Woman v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "C.M.W.P. No. 13814 of 1998", "citation": "(2001) 1 AWC 839 : (2001) CriLJ 2090", "judges": [ "Binod Kumar Roy", "D. R. Chaudhary" ], "judgment_date": "2001-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1994-04-12", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 304", "IPC 218", "IPC 193", "IPC 201", "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3(1)", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Girwan, Banda", "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, Police Station Girwan, Banda" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Girwan, Banda", "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": "Head Constable, Police Station Girwan, Banda" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 42, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Girwan man, age 42" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/285868/smt-chandania-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 7-2-2001) held that the beating of a Girwan man, aged 42, by the Station House Officer and head constable of Police Station Girwan, Banda, on 12 April 1994, causing head injuries that led to his death on 14 April 1994, breached his fundamental right to life under Article 21. The court found the head injuries were apparently on account of custodial violence in the police station and applied the strict-liability principle in Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu. It ordered the State to pay the widow Rs.1,50,000 compensation within three months (in addition to Rs.10,000 ex gratia already paid), with liberty to be indemnified by the wrongdoers, without prejudice to the pending criminal trial. The court also directed the State to arrest the two absconding policemen and inquire into salary payments to them with disciplinary action against those responsible. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 7-2-2001) held that the beating of a Girwan man, aged 42, by the Station House Officer and head constable of Police Station Girwan, Banda, on 12 April 1994, causing head injuries that led to his death on 14 April 1994, breached his fundamental right to life under Article 21. The court found the head injuries were apparently on account of custodial violence in the police station and applied the strict-liability principle in Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu. It ordered the State to pay the widow Rs.1,50,000 compensation within three months (in addition to Rs.10,000 ex gratia already paid), with liberty to be indemnified by the wrongdoers, without prejudice to the pending criminal trial. The court also directed the State to arrest the two absconding policemen and inquire into salary payments to them with disciplinary action against those responsible.", "court_quote": "The injuries on head are apparently on account of custodial violence in the police station. From the materials on the record, this much is clear to us that a Girwan man's fundamental right to have liberty of life was breached by the S.H.O. and the head constable of the police station concerned.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held Article 21 breach by named SHO and head constable; Rs.1.5 lakh compensation ordered.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2001-02-07", "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 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2001) 1 AWC 839 : (2001) CriLJ 2090", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/285868/smt-chandania-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-1-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0959", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sojna Police Station Officer vs State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Sojna Police Station Officer vs State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Lalitpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sojna", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sojna", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sojna Police Station Officer vs State of U.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 2350 of 1997", "citation": "2002 CriLJ 2220", "judges": [ "J. Gupta", "Imtiyaz Murtaza" ], "judgment_date": "2002-02-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1987-03-07", "incident_year": 1987, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 302", "IPC 342" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station Officer", "unit": "Police Station Sojna, Lalitpur", "role": "convicted", "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 Officer, Police Station Sojna, Lalitpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sojna man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": 15000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/j-b-katariya-vs-state-of-u-p-on-14-february-2002", "secondary_sources": [ "2002 CriLJ 2220" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Station Officer arrested a Sojna man on 7 March 1987 and, the Court found, gave him repeated lathi blows at Sojna Tigadda and inside the police station courtyard and lock-up; a Sojna man died in custody on 8 March 1987 with 18 ante-mortem lathi injuries, death due to shock and haemorrhage. The trial court had convicted [name withheld] under sections 302/342 IPC (life imprisonment) and two constables under sections 323/342 IPC. The Court held the custodial assault fully proved against [name withheld] by six consistent eyewitnesses corroborated by the post-mortem, but altered the conviction to section 304 Part II IPC with two years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 25,000 fine, Rs 15,000 to the next of kin. The Court acquitted both constables on benefit of doubt, set aside the section 342 conviction, dismissed the State appeal, and ordered [name withheld] taken into custody forthwith.", "summary_verified": "Station Officer arrested a Sojna man on 7 March 1987 and, the Court found, gave him repeated lathi blows at Sojna Tigadda and inside the police station courtyard and lock-up; a Sojna man died in custody on 8 March 1987 with 18 ante-mortem lathi injuries, death due to shock and haemorrhage. The trial court had convicted [name withheld] under sections 302/342 IPC (life imprisonment) and two constables under sections 323/342 IPC. The Court held the custodial assault fully proved against [name withheld] by six consistent eyewitnesses corroborated by the post-mortem, but altered the conviction to section 304 Part II IPC with two years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 25,000 fine, Rs 15,000 to the next of kin. The Court acquitted both constables on benefit of doubt, set aside the section 342 conviction, dismissed the State appeal, and ordered [name withheld] taken into custody forthwith.", "court_quote": "From the evidence available on record both documentary and oral we are satisfied that [name withheld] had caused injuries to deceased [name withheld] while he was in police custody and even if it is not possible to say that he intended to cause the death of a Sojna man, but he can certainly be clothed with the knowledge that the injuries which were being caused to the deceased at the police station were likely to cause his death though probably without any intention to cause his death, or even to cause such bodily injuries to him as were likely to cause death. The offence would fall under Section 304- Part II I.P.C.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held custodial beating proved against SO; altered 302 to 304 Part II, 2 years RI plus Rs 25,000 fine.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2002 CriLJ 2220", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2002-02-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2002 CriLJ 2220", "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://www.legalindia.com/judgments/j-b-katariya-vs-state-of-u-p-on-14-february-2002", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2002 CriLJ 2220", "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-78" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-2-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0742", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Golhaura Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Golhaura Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Siddharthnagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Golhaura", "police_station_or_unit": "Golhaura Police Station, Siddharthnagar", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Golhaura Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Criminal M.W.P. No. 1754 of 1999", "citation": "(2002) 07 AHC CK 0152; 2002 CriLJ 4546", "judges": [ "S.R. Singh", "R.K. Dash" ], "judgment_date": "2002-07-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1998-10-16", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 384", "IPC 342", "IPC 323", "IPC 201", "IPC 504", "IPC 506", "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constables and officers on lock-up duty", "unit": "Golhaura Police Station, Siddharthnagar", "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": "Constables and officers on lock-up duty, Golhaura Police Station, Siddharthnagar" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 27, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Golhaura man, age 27" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 250000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/346569/siddhu-and-others-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Golhaura man, aged 27, was arrested on 14 October 1998 in a kidnapping case and kept in the Golhaura police lock-up for three days, where the family alleged he was beaten to death. Police claimed he hanged himself, obtained a post-mortem report of hanging and cremated the body; an FIR for murder was later registered against police personnel on a Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. direction. The Division Bench rejected the suicide plea as too big a pill to be swallowed, held the police officers and the autopsy doctor acted hand in glove to fabricate the post-mortem report, and found D.K. Basu safeguards violated. It allowed the writ petition, directed Rs. 2,50,000 compensation (Rs. 1,50,000 to parents, Rs. 1,00,000 to the widow) recoverable from the responsible police officers, and left criminal liability to the pending CBCID murder investigation.", "summary_verified": "A Golhaura man, aged 27, was arrested on 14 October 1998 in a kidnapping case and kept in the Golhaura police lock-up for three days, where the family alleged he was beaten to death. Police claimed he hanged himself, obtained a post-mortem report of hanging and cremated the body; an FIR for murder was later registered against police personnel on a Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. direction. The Division Bench rejected the suicide plea as too big a pill to be swallowed, held the police officers and the autopsy doctor acted hand in glove to fabricate the post-mortem report, and found D.K. Basu safeguards violated. It allowed the writ petition, directed Rs. 2,50,000 compensation (Rs. 1,50,000 to parents, Rs. 1,00,000 to the widow) recoverable from the responsible police officers, and left criminal liability to the pending CBCID murder investigation.", "court_quote": "The aforesaid amount may be recovered by the State from the concerned police officers responsible for the death of the deceased in the police lock-up.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; lock-up torture death held proved, Rs. 2.5 lakh compensation recoverable from police.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2002-07-19", "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 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2002) 07 AHC CK 0152; 2002 CriLJ 4546", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para", "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/346569/siddhu-and-others-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-49" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0936", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Government Railway Police Constable v. Superintendent of Police (Railways)", "display_title_redacted": "Government Railway Police Constable v. Superintendent of Police (Railways)", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Agra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agra", "police_station_or_unit": "Government Railway Police, Agra", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Government Railway Police Constable v. Superintendent of Police (Railways)", "case_number": "C.M.W.P. No. 19352 of 2002", "citation": "(2002) 3 UPLBEC 2765", "judges": [ "Sunil Ambwani" ], "judgment_date": "2002-08-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "2000-12-26", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991 Rule 8(2)(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Government Railway Police, Agra", "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": "Constable, Government Railway Police, Agra" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/262534/constable-5814-ashish-kumar-vs-superintendent-of-police-rai/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 23-8-2002) dismissed the writ petition of Constable (Civil Police posted to Government Railway Police, Agra) challenging his dismissal dated 17-2-2001 under Rule 8(2)(b) of the U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991. The court found sufficient material, including statements of fellow police personnel recorded by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, that the petitioner formed a gang and harboured criminals committing robberies on trains where he was on duty and shared the booty. The court held direct evidence of complicity could not feasibly be procured, so dispensing with a regular enquiry in public interest on Tulsiram Patel principles was justified, with no mala fides pleaded. The dismissal from service was upheld with no order as to costs; no criminal-trial component is recorded in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 23-8-2002) dismissed the writ petition of Constable (Civil Police posted to Government Railway Police, Agra) challenging his dismissal dated 17-2-2001 under Rule 8(2)(b) of the U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991. The court found sufficient material, including statements of fellow police personnel recorded by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, that the petitioner formed a gang and harboured criminals committing robberies on trains where he was on duty and shared the booty. The court held direct evidence of complicity could not feasibly be procured, so dispensing with a regular enquiry in public interest on Tulsiram Patel principles was justified, with no mala fides pleaded. The dismissal from service was upheld with no order as to costs; no criminal-trial component is recorded in the judgment.", "court_quote": "In my opinion, there was sufficient material on record to support the fact that the petitioner was actively involved in forming a gang and harbouring the criminals for committing crimes in trains on which he was assigned duty; that it was not possible to procure direct evidence against his complicity and that in the prevailing situation the enquiry was rightly dispensed with.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld Rule 8(2)(b) dismissal of GRP constable for patronising train robbers.", "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": "2002-08-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2002) 3 UPLBEC 2765", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/262534/constable-5814-ashish-kumar-vs-superintendent-of-police-rai/", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-1-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0937", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Fatehpur Police Constable v. State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Fatehpur Police Constable v. State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Barabanki", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Fatehpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Fatehpur, Barabanki", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Fatehpur Police Constable v. State of U.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 213 of 1987 (S.T. No. 306 of 1985)", "citation": "(2003) CriLJ 2056", "judges": [ "M.A. Khan" ], "judgment_date": "2002-08-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1985-05-09", "incident_year": 1985, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 376" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Fatehpur, Barabanki", "role": "convicted", "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": "Constable, Police Station Fatehpur, Barabanki" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Fatehpur woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 6, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/331308/raj-nath-vs-state-of-up/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 26-8-2002) dismissed the appeal of Police Constable of Police Station Fatehpur, Barabanki, and upheld his six-year rigorous imprisonment conviction under section 376 IPC imposed by the Sessions Judge on 11-3-1987. The court found that on 9-5-1985, inside police station premises, the appellant took the infant daughter of a Sub-Inspector family into his quarter and raped her, crediting the eyewitness account of the mother and the independent witness [name withheld]. The court held the medical evidence proved rape of a girl aged less than one year beyond doubt and found no illegality in the trial court order. It cancelled bail, discharged sureties, and directed the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barabanki, to arrest the appellant to serve the sentence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 26-8-2002) dismissed the appeal of Police Constable of Police Station Fatehpur, Barabanki, and upheld his six-year rigorous imprisonment conviction under section 376 IPC imposed by the Sessions Judge on 11-3-1987. The court found that on 9-5-1985, inside police station premises, the appellant took the infant daughter of a Sub-Inspector family into his quarter and raped her, crediting the eyewitness account of the mother and the independent witness [name withheld]. The court held the medical evidence proved rape of a girl aged less than one year beyond doubt and found no illegality in the trial court order. It cancelled bail, discharged sureties, and directed the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barabanki, to arrest the appellant to serve the sentence.", "court_quote": "The statement of Medical Officer proves beyond doubt that the girl who was less than one year, was subjected to rape by the appellant. There is absolutely no reason to discard the prosecution case and the learned Court below was fully justified in believing the prosecution case, convicting the appellant and I find no illegality or impropriety in the said order passed by the learned Court below.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; 6-year RI for rape by on-duty constable confirmed.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2003) CriLJ 2056", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2002-08-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2003) CriLJ 2056", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "subcategory" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/331308/raj-nath-vs-state-of-up/", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-1-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0397", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ashok Kumar v. Senior Superintendent of Police & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Ashok Kumar v. Senior Superintendent of Police & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Mathura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mathura", "police_station_or_unit": "Civil Police, Mathura (court lock-up duty)", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ashok Kumar v. Senior Superintendent of Police & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "LAWS(ALL)-2003-9-39", "judges": [], "judgment_date": "2003-09-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "2000-06-13", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 223", "IPC 224", "Constitution Art. 311", "UP Police Officers of Subordinate Rank (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1991 r.8(2)(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ashok Kumar", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Civil Police, Mathura", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ashok Kumar", "display": "Ashok Kumar (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/714149/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=303002208100&title=ashok-kumar-vs-senior-superintendent-of-police", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/491393/ashok-kumar-vs-senior-superintendent" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court upheld the dismissal of Constable Ashok Kumar, who was on court lock-up duty at Mathura on 13 June 2000 when hardened criminal Prakash, accused in about fifteen cases including murders, escaped from custody. The enquiry found the petitioner acted in complicity with co-constable [name withheld] and allowed the escape after accepting a bribe, a charge supported by the re-arrested criminal deposition and the petitioner own signed statement, with Case Crime No. 91 of 2000 under Sections 223 and 224 IPC registered. The Court held the SSP satisfaction for dispensing with a full enquiry under Rule 8(2)(b) of the 1991 Rules was based on material on record and neither arbitrary nor mala fide. It declined to interfere and dismissed the writ petition. No PC Act trial was involved; the bribe finding is disciplinary only. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court upheld the dismissal of Constable Ashok Kumar, who was on court lock-up duty at Mathura on 13 June 2000 when hardened criminal Prakash, accused in about fifteen cases including murders, escaped from custody. The enquiry found the petitioner acted in complicity with co-constable [name withheld] and allowed the escape after accepting a bribe, a charge supported by the re-arrested criminal deposition and the petitioner own signed statement, with Case Crime No. 91 of 2000 under Sections 223 and 224 IPC registered. The Court held the SSP satisfaction for dispensing with a full enquiry under Rule 8(2)(b) of the 1991 Rules was based on material on record and neither arbitrary nor mala fide. It declined to interfere and dismissed the writ petition. No PC Act trial was involved; the bribe finding is disciplinary only.", "court_quote": "The Senior Superintendent of Police found that petitioner was in complicity with the criminal who made good his escape. He was subsequently apprehended and deposed that he had given bribe to petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal for bribe-aided escape of murder accused from lock-up upheld; writ dismissed.", "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": "2003-09-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "LAWS(ALL)-2003-9-39", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "subcategory" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/714149/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=303002208100&title=ashok-kumar-vs-senior-superintendent-of-police", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/491393/ashok-kumar-vs-senior-superintendent", "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-30" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-010", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0392", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhoopat Singh v. J.B. Kataria and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bhoopat Singh v. J.B. Kataria and Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Lalitpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sojna", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Sojna, Lalitpur", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhoopat Singh v. J.B. Kataria and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 976-977 of 2002", "citation": null, "judges": [ "B.N. Agrawal", "G.S. Singhvi" ], "judgment_date": "2009-08-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1987-03-07", "incident_year": 1987, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 342" ], "officers": [ { "name": "J.B. Katariya", "rank": "Station Officer", "unit": "PS Sojna, Lalitpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.9, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "J.B. Katariya", "display": "J.B. Katariya (Station Officer)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 20, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sojna man, age 20" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 5.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1494641/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/17373/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110740214/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Sojna man, a young medical practitioner of village Sojna, was arrested on 7 March 1987 under Section 307 IPC and brutally assaulted by Station Officer J.B. Katariya, sustaining 18 injuries across his body before succumbing to death in police custody on 8/9 March 1987. The Special Sessions Judge, Lalitpur, convicted Katariya of murder under Section 302 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment, but the Allahabad High Court converted the conviction to Section 304 Part II IPC and reduced the sentence to two years imprisonment with a Rs 25,000 fine. On cross-appeals, the Supreme Court held that the officer mercilessly assaulted the deceased while in custody, taking undue advantage of his official position. The Supreme Court dismissed Katariya appeal, affirmed his conviction under Section 304 Part II IPC, cancelled his bail, and enhanced his sentence of imprisonment from two years to five years rigorous imprisonment.", "summary_verified": "A Sojna man, a young medical practitioner of village Sojna, was arrested on 7 March 1987 under Section 307 IPC and brutally assaulted by Station Officer J.B. Katariya, sustaining 18 injuries across his body before succumbing to death in police custody on 8/9 March 1987. The Special Sessions Judge, Lalitpur, convicted Katariya of murder under Section 302 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment, but the Allahabad High Court converted the conviction to Section 304 Part II IPC and reduced the sentence to two years imprisonment with a Rs 25,000 fine. On cross-appeals, the Supreme Court held that the officer mercilessly assaulted the deceased while in custody, taking undue advantage of his official position. The Supreme Court dismissed Katariya appeal, affirmed his conviction under Section 304 Part II IPC, cancelled his bail, and enhanced his sentence of imprisonment from two years to five years rigorous imprisonment.", "court_quote": "we consider it necessary to mention that the appellant had taken undue advantage of his position as a police officer and mercilessly assaulted the deceased while he was in police custody. As many as 18 injuries were inflicted on the person of the deceased.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court upheld s. 304 Part II IPC conviction of SO Katariya for custodial death and enhanced sentence from 2 to 5 years RI.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 976-977 of 2002", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2009-08-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 976-977 of 2002", "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/1494641/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/17373/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110740214/", "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-13" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-003", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1117", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Prayagraj Police Constable v. State of U.P. & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Prayagraj Police Constable v. State of U.P. & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Prayagraj", "district_at_time": "Allahabad", "city_town": "Prayagraj", "police_station_or_unit": "IV Battalion, PAC, Allahabad", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Prayagraj Police Constable v. State of U.P. & Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7643 of 2011", "citation": "[2011] 11 SCR 136", "judges": [ "Mukundakam Sharma", "Anil R. Dave" ], "judgment_date": "2011-09-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1991-10-27", "incident_year": 1991, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 392" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad", "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": "Constable, IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://orderlaw-bphmhzeseagsd2ce.z03.azurefd.net/cms-cnr-data/supreme_court_data/pdf_files/jonew/judis/38454.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The appellant, a constable in the IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad, was unauthorisedly absent on 27 October 1991 and that evening forcibly grabbed a liquor bottle from a wine shop and threatened the staff; medical examination found he had consumed alcohol though he was not intoxicated. A departmental inquiry held the charges proved and he was dismissed on 11 February 1993; the departmental appeal, the U.P. Public Services Tribunal and the Allahabad High Court all upheld the dismissal, though he was acquitted in the linked criminal case under Section 392 IPC. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal had no bearing on the departmental proceedings given the different standards of proof, and that dismissal of a member of a disciplined force found under the influence of liquor was not shocking to the conscience. The appeal was dismissed with parties bearing their own costs.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, a constable in the IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad, was unauthorisedly absent on 27 October 1991 and that evening forcibly grabbed a liquor bottle from a wine shop and threatened the staff; medical examination found he had consumed alcohol though he was not intoxicated. A departmental inquiry held the charges proved and he was dismissed on 11 February 1993; the departmental appeal, the U.P. Public Services Tribunal and the Allahabad High Court all upheld the dismissal, though he was acquitted in the linked criminal case under Section 392 IPC. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal had no bearing on the departmental proceedings given the different standards of proof, and that dismissal of a member of a disciplined force found under the influence of liquor was not shocking to the conscience. The appeal was dismissed with parties bearing their own costs.", "court_quote": "The appellant belongs to a disciplinary force and the members of such a force is required to maintain discipline and to act in a befitting manner in public. Instead of that, he was found under the influence of liquor and then indulged himself in an offence.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC dismissed appeal; dismissal of PAC constable for absence and liquor-related misconduct upheld.", "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": "2011-09-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "[2011] 11 SCR 136", "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://orderlaw-bphmhzeseagsd2ce.z03.azurefd.net/cms-cnr-data/supreme_court_data/pdf_files/jonew/judis/38454.pdf", "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-100" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-130-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0038", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0960", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chhaisa Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Chhaisa Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Gautam Buddha Nagar", "district_at_time": "Gautam Budh Nagar", "city_town": "Chhaisa", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Jarcha", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chhaisa Man and Others vs State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 10638 of 2006", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ravindra Singh", "Arvind K. Tripathi" ], "judgment_date": "2011-09-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2000-06-20", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 323", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Gautam Budh Nagar police", "role": "named_only", "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": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Gautam Budh Nagar police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Gautam Budh Nagar police", "role": "named_only", "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": "Constable, Gautam Budh Nagar police" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chhaisa man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chhaisa man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/31838786/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. On 20 June 2000, during panchayat polling at Chhaisa, Dadri, a police party led by Circle Officer lathi-charged and fired four rounds after villagers objected to being pressed to leave the queue; a Chhaisa man and a Chhaisa man, sitting on a cot in a gher, were shot dead on the spot and other villagers were injured. Case Crime No.74/2000 under sections 302/323 IPC was registered at P.S. Jarcha; both the police investigation and the CDO's magisterial inquiry found DySP [name withheld] and Constable guilty of negligence, and prosecution sanction was granted on 4 January 2008. The Court held this an established violation of the fundamental right to life and no further inquiry was needed. The Court directed the State to pay Rs 10 lakh each to the two widows/legal heirs within three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 20 June 2000, during panchayat polling at Chhaisa, Dadri, a police party led by Circle Officer lathi-charged and fired four rounds after villagers objected to being pressed to leave the queue; a Chhaisa man and a Chhaisa man, sitting on a cot in a gher, were shot dead on the spot and other villagers were injured. Case Crime No.74/2000 under sections 302/323 IPC was registered at P.S. Jarcha; both the police investigation and the CDO's magisterial inquiry found DySP [name withheld] and Constable guilty of negligence, and prosecution sanction was granted on 4 January 2008. The Court held this an established violation of the fundamental right to life and no further inquiry was needed. The Court directed the State to pay Rs 10 lakh each to the two widows/legal heirs within three months.", "court_quote": "In the present case there was negligence on part of the police personnel of the State of U.P. who fired causing death of two innocent villagers which is clear violation of fundamental right to life.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC found negligent police firing killed two villagers and directed Rs 10 lakh each to the two families.", "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": "2011-09-16", "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 2,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 10638 of 2006", "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/31838786/", "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-78" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-4-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0455", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Uttar Pradesh Man and Others v. State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Uttar Pradesh Man and Others v. State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "PS Sojna", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Uttar Pradesh Man and Others v. State of U.P.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 40 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya", "Prafulla Chandra Pant" ], "judgment_date": "2014-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1987-03-07", "incident_year": 1987, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station Officer", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Sojna", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.61, "jev_p_culpable": 0.57, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station Officer, PS Sojna" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Sojna", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, PS Sojna" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "PS Sojna", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, PS Sojna" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Uttar Pradesh man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110740214/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court awarded a total of Rs.10 lakh to the widow and legal representatives of a Uttar Pradesh man, who died in PS Sojna custody on 8/9 March 1987 after a 2 a.m. altercation with drunken constables and a false Section 307 FIR against him. The order records that the guilty police officials stood convicted under Section 304 Part II with punishment enhanced by the Supreme Court itself from 2 to 5 years. The compensation, inclusive of Rs.5 lakh interim relief sanctioned by the State, was payable within two months with 6% default interest, recoverable from the three named guilty personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court awarded a total of Rs.10 lakh to the widow and legal representatives of a Uttar Pradesh man, who died in PS Sojna custody on 8/9 March 1987 after a 2 a.m. altercation with drunken constables and a false Section 307 FIR against him. The order records that the guilty police officials stood convicted under Section 304 Part II with punishment enhanced by the Supreme Court itself from 2 to 5 years. The compensation, inclusive of Rs.5 lakh interim relief sanctioned by the State, was payable within two months with 6% default interest, recoverable from the three named guilty personnel.", "court_quote": "An FIR was lodged against police officials who were convicted under Section 304 Part II by the Trial Court and the same was affirmed by this Court by enhancing the punishment from 2 years to 5 years imprisonment.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC compensation order text verified; Rs.10L for established 1987 custodial death, recovery from 3 named.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2014-10-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 40 of 2014", "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/110740214/", "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-39" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-025", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0964", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Civil Police Head Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Civil Police Head Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Civil Police, U.P. Police", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Civil Police Head Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ-A No. 28337 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Yashwant Varma" ], "judgment_date": "2015-03-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1978-01-01", "incident_year": 1978, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Rule 29, U.P. Government Servant Conduct Rules, 1956", "U.P. Police Officers of the Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Civil Police, U.P. Police", "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": "Head Constable, Civil Police, U.P. Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/353124/ram-pratap-singh-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 12 March 2015) dismissed the writ petition of Head Constable [name withheld] of the Civil Police and sustained his dismissal dated 16 October 2008 for contracting a second marriage in 1978 during the subsistence of his 1965 first marriage, without the permission required by Rule 29 of the U.P. Government Servant Conduct Rules, 1956. The Court noted both wives had deposed before the enquiry officer and the misconduct surfaced on the first wife's complaint of ill-treatment. The Court held that a member of the police force is charged with upholding the law and standards of civil society, and the punishment did not shock its conscience. The appellate (30 January 2009) and revisional (26 December 2009) affirmations were left undisturbed, with no compensation ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 12 March 2015) dismissed the writ petition of Head Constable [name withheld] of the Civil Police and sustained his dismissal dated 16 October 2008 for contracting a second marriage in 1978 during the subsistence of his 1965 first marriage, without the permission required by Rule 29 of the U.P. Government Servant Conduct Rules, 1956. The Court noted both wives had deposed before the enquiry officer and the misconduct surfaced on the first wife's complaint of ill-treatment. The Court held that a member of the police force is charged with upholding the law and standards of civil society, and the punishment did not shock its conscience. The appellate (30 January 2009) and revisional (26 December 2009) affirmations were left undisturbed, with no compensation ordered.", "court_quote": "A member of the police force is charged with the duty of maintaining the law, upholding the standards of a civil society. The punishment, viewed in light of the above facts, does not shock the conscience of this Court warranting substitution of the choice made by the administrator.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ; head constable's dismissal for bigamy without permission sustained.", "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": "2015-03-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ-A No. 28337 of 2009", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/353124/ram-pratap-singh-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0965", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "U.P. Police (Police Department)", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others", "case_number": "Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajes Kumar", "S.B. Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2015-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Rule 8(2)(a), U.P. Police Officers of the Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991", "Constitution Art. 311(2) second proviso cl. (a)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "U.P. Police (Police Department)", "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": "Constable, U.P. Police (Police Department)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/354455/mahendra-kumar-gaud-appellant-hash-state-of-uttar-pradesh-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 21 July 2015) dismissed Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010 and sustained the dismissal dated 7 September 2002 of police Constable under Rule 8(2)(a) of the 1991 Rules, imposed on the ground of conduct leading to his trial-court conviction for murder and life sentence. The Court recorded that the appellant's writ petition (No. 70001 of 2009) had already been dismissed by the single Judge on 20 July 2010 following S. Nagoor Meera (AIR 1995 SC 1364). The Court held there was no substance in the plea that a stay of sentence in the pending criminal appeal entitled him to reinstatement, since the conduct underlying the conviction was not stayed. The special appeal accordingly failed and was dismissed, with no compensation ordered; this judgment does not itself adjudicate the murder charge.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 21 July 2015) dismissed Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010 and sustained the dismissal dated 7 September 2002 of police Constable under Rule 8(2)(a) of the 1991 Rules, imposed on the ground of conduct leading to his trial-court conviction for murder and life sentence. The Court recorded that the appellant's writ petition (No. 70001 of 2009) had already been dismissed by the single Judge on 20 July 2010 following S. Nagoor Meera (AIR 1995 SC 1364). The Court held there was no substance in the plea that a stay of sentence in the pending criminal appeal entitled him to reinstatement, since the conduct underlying the conviction was not stayed. The special appeal accordingly failed and was dismissed, with no compensation ordered; this judgment does not itself adjudicate the murder charge.", "court_quote": "A bare perusal of proviso of Rule 8 makes it clear that the Police personnel can be dismissed or removed on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on criminal charges even without any disciplinary proceeding being contemplated. Therefore, exercise of power dismissing the appellant on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on criminal charges cannot be said to be illegal.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Special Appeal dismissed; constable's dismissal after murder conviction (Rule 8(2)(a)) sustained.", "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": "2015-07-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010", "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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/354455/mahendra-kumar-gaud-appellant-hash-state-of-uttar-pradesh-and-others-respondent/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0398", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Mau", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Doharighat", "police_station_or_unit": "Doharighat Police Station, Mau", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "V.K. Shukla", "Arvind Kumar Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "2015-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2015-04-09", "incident_year": 2015, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Police Station Doharighat, District Mau", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "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": "Police personnel, Police Station Doharighat, District Mau" } ], "officer_count": 7, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Doharighat man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102741423/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-awards-5-lakh-compensation-to-a-youth-who-complained-of-brutal-police-torture", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5811a4ade691cb26fc4d96fe" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Doharighat man, a young ITBP constable aspirant who had cleared his physical test, was taken to Doharighat police station on 9 April 2015 for interrogation and detained there until 16 April 2015, during which he was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including electric shocks, severe beatings and insertion of aluminium wire through his mouth. The Court accepted medical evidence including an X-ray showing the wire and photographs of his injuries, rejecting the State's denial. It held the petitioner had suffered custodial violence at the hands of the police, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation payable by the State within two months for his ruined career and immense suffering, and directed the SP, Mau to register an FIR against the erring incumbents with investigation by an officer not below Circle Officer rank under his supervision. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Doharighat man, a young ITBP constable aspirant who had cleared his physical test, was taken to Doharighat police station on 9 April 2015 for interrogation and detained there until 16 April 2015, during which he was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including electric shocks, severe beatings and insertion of aluminium wire through his mouth. The Court accepted medical evidence including an X-ray showing the wire and photographs of his injuries, rejecting the State's denial. It held the petitioner had suffered custodial violence at the hands of the police, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation payable by the State within two months for his ruined career and immense suffering, and directed the SP, Mau to register an FIR against the erring incumbents with investigation by an officer not below Circle Officer rank under his supervision.", "court_quote": "Awarding of compensation is demand of the situation, looking to the agony that a young man has to undergo, and the fact that his career to join I.T.B.P. has been withered away. Treatment meted to petitioner is purely inhuman, that has inflicted immense mental pain leading to sense of insecurity and helplessness in him. In this background, we proceed to award compensation of Rs.5 lacs to petitioner no.1 to be paid by the State Government within two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for 7-day illegal detention and brutal custodial torture, directing FIR against erring personnel.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "2015-09-21", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015", "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/102741423/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-awards-5-lakh-compensation-to-a-youth-who-complained-of-brutal-police-torture", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5811a4ade691cb26fc4d96fe", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0571", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Misrikh Police Constable, Civil Police and others v. State of U.P. and Others with [name withheld] v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Misrikh Police Constable, Civil Police and others v. State of U.P. and Others with [name withheld] v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Sitapur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Misrikh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": "Lucknow", "case_title": "Misrikh Police Constable, Civil Police and others v. State of U.P. and Others with [name withheld] v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition Nos. 53 (S/S) and 56 (S/S) of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Devendra Kumar Arora" ], "judgment_date": "2015-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1981-02-10", "incident_year": 1981, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 147", "IPC 148", "IPC 149", "IPC 218", "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable, Civil Police", "unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.22, "jev_p_culpable": 0.76, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Civil Police, Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable, Civil Police", "unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.32, "jev_p_culpable": 0.64, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Civil Police, Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector, Civil Police", "unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.8, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Civil Police, Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Misrikh man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Misrikh man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Misrikh resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/71378871/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/ILR/ilr-2015/Dec2015.pdf" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) dismissed the writ petitions of two constables and a sub-inspector of Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur, upholding their dismissal from service under clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) read with Rule 8(2)(a) of the U.P. Police Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules 1991. The dismissals rested on their conviction and life sentences by the Additional Sessions Judge/FTC Sitapur on 7 August 2008 with eleven other police officers for the 10 February 1981 Sarsai encounter in which a Misrikh man, a Misrikh man and a Misrikh resident were killed, which the Court described as an alleged fake encounter and murder by the police party. The Court held a Section 302 convict should not be reinstated till absolved in appeal and that pendency of Criminal Appeal No. 1853 of 2008 does not bar dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) dismissed the writ petitions of two constables and a sub-inspector of Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur, upholding their dismissal from service under clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) read with Rule 8(2)(a) of the U.P. Police Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules 1991. The dismissals rested on their conviction and life sentences by the Additional Sessions Judge/FTC Sitapur on 7 August 2008 with eleven other police officers for the 10 February 1981 Sarsai encounter in which a Misrikh man, a Misrikh man and a Misrikh resident were killed, which the Court described as an alleged fake encounter and murder by the police party. The Court held a Section 302 convict should not be reinstated till absolved in appeal and that pendency of Criminal Appeal No. 1853 of 2008 does not bar dismissal.", "court_quote": "A person convicted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code should not be reinstated in service till he is absolved in appeal.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC (Lucknow) upheld dismissal of 3 Misrikh policemen convicted of murder in 1981 Sarsai fake encounter.", "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": "2015-12-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition Nos. 53 (S/S) and 56 (S/S) of 2010", "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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/71378871/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/ILR/ilr-2015/Dec2015.pdf", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-47" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTH-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0963", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Uttar Pradesh Woman v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Uttar Pradesh Woman v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "U.P. Police (bank security duty)", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Uttar Pradesh Woman v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Special Appeal No. 200 of 2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud", "Yashwant Varma" ], "judgment_date": "2016-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2009-07-23", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "U.P. Police (bank security duty, Varanasi)", "role": "held_liable", "note": "unnamed male constable in HC text; identified as Ranveer [name withheld] in SC order 11.03.2019; appellant Sumitra Devi is his widow, not police", "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": "Constable, U.P. Police (bank security duty, Varanasi)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/357327/smt-sumitra-devi-vs-state-of-up/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench led by the Chief Justice, 9 March 2016) dismissed Special Appeal No. 200 of 2016 and sustained the termination dated 7 May 2010 of a U.P. Police constable found in a state of intoxication while on security duty near bank premises on 23 July 2009. The Court noted the constable was medically examined the same day, suspended the next day, and subjected to a regular departmental enquiry with opportunity to adduce evidence and cross-examine witnesses. The Court held the medical report and corroborating witness statements provided sufficient material to establish the charge, rejecting the plea that intoxication could only be proved by blood and urine examination. The appellate (21 August 2010), revisional (4 November 2010) and single-judge (2 February 2016) affirmations were left undisturbed, with no compensation ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench led by the Chief Justice, 9 March 2016) dismissed Special Appeal No. 200 of 2016 and sustained the termination dated 7 May 2010 of a U.P. Police constable found in a state of intoxication while on security duty near bank premises on 23 July 2009. The Court noted the constable was medically examined the same day, suspended the next day, and subjected to a regular departmental enquiry with opportunity to adduce evidence and cross-examine witnesses. The Court held the medical report and corroborating witness statements provided sufficient material to establish the charge, rejecting the plea that intoxication could only be proved by blood and urine examination. The appellate (21 August 2010), revisional (4 November 2010) and single-judge (2 February 2016) affirmations were left undisturbed, with no compensation ordered.", "court_quote": "In our opinion, bearing in mind the medical report as well as the statement of witnesses who were examined in the course of the disciplinary proceedings, there existed on record sufficient material to establish the charge levelled against the appellant.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Special Appeal dismissed; constable's termination for on-duty intoxication sustained.", "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": "2016-03-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Special Appeal No. 200 of 2016", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "officers", "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/357327/smt-sumitra-devi-vs-state-of-up/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0962", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Civil Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Civil Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Mathura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Refinery, District Mathura", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Civil Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 15815 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Tarun Agarwala", "Prabhat Chandra Tripathi" ], "judgment_date": "2016-04-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "1998-12-30", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "U.P. Police Officers of the Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991 Rule 4(1)(a)(i)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Civil Police, U.P. Police, Police Station Refinery, Mathura", "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": "Constable, Civil Police, U.P. Police, Police Station Refinery, Mathura" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/356535/pandhari-saroj-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 28 April 2016) dismissed the writ petition of dismissed Civil Police Constable of Police Station Refinery, Mathura, and sustained his dismissal dated 28 February 2000 for unauthorised absence from 30 December 1998 to 31 March 1999 while assigned summons-service duty. The Court found his winter-illness alibi and belated medical certificate unconvincing, noting a record of 13 absences totalling 578 days, 15 minor penalties, three censures and adverse entries. The Court held his callous and defiant conduct rendered him unsuitable for a disciplined force and that dismissal would set an example. The approval (15 March 2001), revision rejection (30 April 2002) and Tribunal dismissal of the claim petition (12 December 2013) were left undisturbed, with no compensation ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 28 April 2016) dismissed the writ petition of dismissed Civil Police Constable of Police Station Refinery, Mathura, and sustained his dismissal dated 28 February 2000 for unauthorised absence from 30 December 1998 to 31 March 1999 while assigned summons-service duty. The Court found his winter-illness alibi and belated medical certificate unconvincing, noting a record of 13 absences totalling 578 days, 15 minor penalties, three censures and adverse entries. The Court held his callous and defiant conduct rendered him unsuitable for a disciplined force and that dismissal would set an example. The approval (15 March 2001), revision rejection (30 April 2002) and Tribunal dismissal of the claim petition (12 December 2013) were left undisturbed, with no compensation ordered.", "court_quote": "This callous and defiant approach of the petitioner is totally unsuitable in the police force. Discipline and adherence to the obedience is of paramount importance in a disciplined force like Uttar Pradesh Police.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ; constable's dismissal for repeated unauthorised absence sustained.", "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": "2016-04-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 15815 of 2014", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/356535/pandhari-saroj-vs-state-of-up-and-others/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0853", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0400" ], "display_title": "I. S. vs State Of U.P. & 7 Others", "display_title_redacted": "I. S. vs State Of U.P. & 7 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Chandauli", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mughalsarai", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Kotwali Mughalsarai", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "I. S. vs State Of U.P. & 7 Others", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11422 of 2013", "citation": "(2017) 99 ACrC 115", "judges": [ "Ramesh Sinha", "Rekha Dikshit" ], "judgment_date": "2017-01-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2012-12-27", "incident_year": 2012, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Circle Officer (C.O. Sadar)", "unit": "PS Kotwali Mughalsarai", "role": "named_only", "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": "Circle Officer (C.O. Sadar), PS Kotwali Mughalsarai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "PS Kotwali Mughalsarai", "role": "named_only", "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": "Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "PS Kotwali Mughalsarai", "role": "named_only", "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": "Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "PS Kotwali Mughalsarai", "role": "named_only", "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": "Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "PS Kotwali Mughalsarai", "role": "named_only", "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": "Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mughalsarai man", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/355585/inderpreet-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47936008/", "https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-orders-state-pay-compensation-custodial-torture" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court held that Class-XII student a man was forcibly picked up from his family hotel-cum-photostat shop at Mughalsarai on 27 December 2012 by four constables acting at the behest of respondent [name withheld], illegally confined in the Kotwali lock-up till 29 December, handcuffed, tortured and severely beaten, then falsely implicated in Case Crime No. 412 of 2012. The Court rejected the police version and an ADJ inquiry that minimised the injuries, holding the confinement, handcuffing and torture showed police high-handedness against a school-going boy. It held the State had failed in its duty to protect innocents from police atrocities. It partly allowed the petition and awarded Rs 2 lakh exemplary compensation payable by the State within one month. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court held that Class-XII student was forcibly picked up from his family hotel-cum-photostat shop at Mughalsarai on 27 December 2012 by four constables acting at the behest of respondent [name withheld], illegally confined in the Kotwali lock-up till 29 December, handcuffed, tortured and severely beaten, then falsely implicated in Case Crime No. 412 of 2012. The Court rejected the police version and an ADJ inquiry that minimised the injuries, holding the confinement, handcuffing and torture showed police high-handedness against a school-going boy. It held the State had failed in its duty to protect innocents from police atrocities. It partly allowed the petition and awarded Rs 2 lakh exemplary compensation payable by the State within one month.", "court_quote": "The illegal confinement, handcuffing and torture of the petitioner in police lock-up by respondent nos. 4 to 8 shows the highhandedness of the police personnel, hence the said act and conduct of said respondents is not appreciable as by the said act, they have malign the reputation of the petitioner, who was a school going boy of tender age as is also evident from his photograph in handcuffing position with other accused of case crime no. 412 of 2012 annexed with the petition as annexure-7 at page-51, in the society by implicating him in a false case the proceedings of which has been challenged by the petitioner before this Court by filing application under section 482 Cr.P.C. in which proceedings have been stayed by this Court and the matter is pending before this Court, hence we deemed it proper in the interest of justice that petitioner, who is a student of class-XII is entitled for an exemplary compensation.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Student illegally confined, handcuffed and tortured 27-29 Dec 2012; Rs 2 lakh exemplary 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": "Custodial torture", "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": "2017-01-20", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2017) 99 ACrC 115", "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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/355585/inderpreet-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47936008/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-orders-state-pay-compensation-custodial-torture", "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-30", "chunk-31" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0961", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Saharanpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Saharanpur", "police_station_or_unit": "U.P. Police, Saharanpur (relieved for Refresher Course, Police Training Centre Moradabad)", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ-A No. 11464 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dilip Gupta", "Siddhartha Varma" ], "judgment_date": "2017-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1992-05-08", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "U.P. Police Regulations, 1861 (disciplinary inquiry)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "U.P. Police, Saharanpur", "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": "Constable, U.P. Police, Saharanpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/356048/jagpal-singh-rathi-vs-uttar-pradesh-state-public-service-tri/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 2 March 2017) dismissed the writ petition of U.P. Police Constable, posted at Saharanpur, who had been dismissed from service on 28 January 1994 after remaining unauthorisedly absent for 503 days from 8 May 1992 instead of joining a Refresher Course at the Police Training Centre, Moradabad. The Court noted the enquiry officer had disbelieved his private medical reports since he had not been examined at a district hospital as the regulations required. The Court held there was no substance in the plea that dismissal was disproportionate to the charge of such prolonged absence. The appellate rejection (27 July 1994) and the U.P. Public Services Tribunal's dismissal of Claim Petition No. 1287 of 1995 (1 December 2009) were left undisturbed, and no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 2 March 2017) dismissed the writ petition of U.P. Police Constable, posted at Saharanpur, who had been dismissed from service on 28 January 1994 after remaining unauthorisedly absent for 503 days from 8 May 1992 instead of joining a Refresher Course at the Police Training Centre, Moradabad. The Court noted the enquiry officer had disbelieved his private medical reports since he had not been examined at a district hospital as the regulations required. The Court held there was no substance in the plea that dismissal was disproportionate to the charge of such prolonged absence. The appellate rejection (27 July 1994) and the U.P. Public Services Tribunal's dismissal of Claim Petition No. 1287 of 1995 (1 December 2009) were left undisturbed, and no compensation was ordered.", "court_quote": "We, therefore, do not find any substance in the submission advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the punishment imposed upon the petitioner was disproportionate to the charge levelled against him.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ; constable's dismissal for 503 days' unauthorised absence sustained.", "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": "2017-03-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ-A No. 11464 of 2010", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/356048/jagpal-singh-rathi-vs-uttar-pradesh-state-public-service-tri/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0395", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of U.P. v. Kunwargaon Police Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "State of U.P. v. Kunwargaon Police Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Budaun", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kunwargaon", "police_station_or_unit": "Kunwargaon Police Station, Budaun", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of U.P. v. Kunwargaon Police Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer & Ors.", "case_number": "Government Appeal No. 3448 of 2002", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Arun Tandon", "Rajul Bhargava" ], "judgment_date": "2017-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1994-09-12", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 343", "IPC 220" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer", "unit": "PS Kunwargaon, Budaun", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer, PS Kunwargaon, Budaun" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kunwargaon man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/117064808/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e97453d4653d048ca2b5bd0" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Kunwargaon man was picked up from his field on 5 September 1994 by Station House Officer's party and detained in the Kunwargaon police lock-up for nearly a week without being challaned in any case, during which he was regularly beaten. On 12 September 1994 kerosene was poured on him and he was set ablaze inside the police station, dying of extensive burn injuries. Independent shopkeepers opposite the station and a co-detenu supported the illegal detention and beating, and the deceased told his cousin that the SO had burnt him. The Special Judge (PC Act) acquitted all eight policemen in 2002, but the High Court held the trial court had committed a grave miscarriage of justice, reversed the SHO's acquittal and convicted him under Sections 302, 343 and 220 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment with fines, while affirming the acquittal of the seven constables. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Kunwargaon man was picked up from his field on 5 September 1994 by Station House Officer's party and detained in the Kunwargaon police lock-up for nearly a week without being challaned in any case, during which he was regularly beaten. On 12 September 1994 kerosene was poured on him and he was set ablaze inside the police station, dying of extensive burn injuries. Independent shopkeepers opposite the station and a co-detenu supported the illegal detention and beating, and the deceased told his cousin that the SO had burnt him. The Special Judge (PC Act) acquitted all eight policemen in 2002, but the High Court held the trial court had committed a grave miscarriage of justice, reversed the SHO's acquittal and convicted him under Sections 302, 343 and 220 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment with fines, while affirming the acquittal of the seven constables.", "court_quote": "This State appeal is allowed against respondent no.1-[name withheld] and he is held guilty for an offence punishable under Section 302, 343, 220 IPC.", "court_quote_para": "50", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC reversed acquittal, convicting SHO of murder (s.302) with life imprisonment for custodial burning death.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2017-12-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Government Appeal No. 3448 of 2002", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/117064808/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e97453d4653d048ca2b5bd0", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0510", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hashimpura, Meerut Man & Ors. v. 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"https://www.livelaw.in/breaking-delhi-hc-reverses-acquittal-of-16-policemen-in-hashimpura-massacre-case-sentences-all-to-life-imprisonment", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2018/11/02/hashimpura-tragedy-16-pac-personnel-accused-of-targeted-killings-convicted-in-an-attempt-to-avert-systematic-failure-and-misscariage-of-justice-del-hc/", "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-eight-convicts-in-the-1987-hashimpura-massacre-case-1560213", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/hashimpura-massacre-16-cops-convicted-targeted-killings-muslims" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court reversed the 2015 Tis Hazari acquittals and convicted 16 UP Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel of murder and conspiracy for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, sentencing each to life imprisonment. The Court found that about 42 Muslim men rounded up at Hashimpura, Meerut, during communal riots were trucked to the Gangnahar canal, shot dead, and their bodies dumped. It termed the massacre a targeted killing of unarmed and defenceless people by the police, relying on survivor testimony and PAC records after the case was transferred to Delhi. Appeals against the convictions are pending before the Supreme Court, which has granted bail to some convicts.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court reversed the 2015 Tis Hazari acquittals and convicted 16 UP Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel of murder and conspiracy for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, sentencing each to life imprisonment. The Court found that about 42 Muslim men rounded up at Hashimpura, Meerut, during communal riots were trucked to the Gangnahar canal, shot dead, and their bodies dumped. It termed the massacre a targeted killing of unarmed and defenceless people by the police, relying on survivor testimony and PAC records after the case was transferred to Delhi. Appeals against the convictions are pending before the Supreme Court, which has granted bail to some convicts.", "court_quote": "The evidence also clearly establishes the prior meeting of minds of the accused and their careful planning in executing the killings of the victims. Their guilt for the offence of criminal conspiracy punishable under Section 120-B IPC, and pursuant thereto committing the offence of abduction punishable under Section 364 IPC and murder punishable under Section 302 IPC and thereafter destroying the evidence of such crime thus committing the offence punishable under Section 201 IPC thus stands proved beyond reasonable doubt.", "court_quote_para": "72", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Delhi HC reversed 2015 acquittals; convicted 16 PAC men to life; recategorised extrajudicial killing.", "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": "2018-10-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2018 SCC OnLine Del 12153", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2024-12-06", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 6 December 2024, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld]); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-up-police-officers-convicted-for-hashimpura-massacre-277533", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2024-12-06", "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-up-police-officers-convicted-for-hashimpura-massacre-277533", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "sections" ] }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Official source added: Delhi High Court judgment (Indian Kanoon), matched on parties, court, 31 October 2018 decision date, Crl.A. 574/2015 and the life sentences of the 16 accused." }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Title corrected: the appellants were survivors and victims' families appealing the 2015 acquittals, not police personnel; their names are withheld." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/breaking-delhi-hc-reverses-acquittal-of-16-policemen-in-hashimpura-massacre-case-sentences-all-to-life-imprisonment", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2018/11/02/hashimpura-tragedy-16-pac-personnel-accused-of-targeted-killings-convicted-in-an-attempt-to-avert-systematic-failure-and-misscariage-of-justice-del-hc/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-eight-convicts-in-the-1987-hashimpura-massacre-case-1560213", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/hashimpura-massacre-16-cops-convicted-targeted-killings-muslims", "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-32", "chunk-40" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "title_party": "victim", "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0939", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Meerut Police PAC personnel & Ors. v. 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Charge-sheeted only in 1996 with trial transferred to Delhi, all had been acquitted in 2015 for want of identification; on appeal with NHRC-intervenor additional evidence, the High Court held it targeted killing of unarmed defenceless persons. Each was sentenced to life (remainder of natural life) under Section 302/120B plus concurrent terms for conspiracy, kidnapping, attempt to murder and destruction of evidence, and ordered to surrender by 22 November 2018. State corrected to Uttar Pradesh (incident site; trial in Delhi). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court reversed the Tis Hazari acquittal and convicted 16 UP PAC men for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, when C-Company jawans rounded up 42-45 Muslim men of Meerut, shot about 38 in batches at Gang nahar and Hindon canal and dumped the bodies in the water. Charge-sheeted only in 1996 with trial transferred to Delhi, all had been acquitted in 2015 for want of identification; on appeal with NHRC-intervenor additional evidence, the High Court held it targeted killing of unarmed defenceless persons. Each was sentenced to life (remainder of natural life) under Section 302/120B plus concurrent terms for conspiracy, kidnapping, attempt to murder and destruction of evidence, and ordered to surrender by 22 November 2018. 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Singh" }, { "name": "Rashi Pal Singh", "rank": null, "unit": "PS Baradhpur, Bijnor", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.26, "jev_p_culpable": 0.82, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rashi Pal Singh", "display": "Rashi Pal Singh" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "PS Baradhpur, Bijnor", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.89, "jev_p_culpable": 0.18, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, PS Baradhpur, Bijnor" } ], "officer_count": 16, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 25, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barhapur man, age 25" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157781726/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebDownloadOriginalHCJudgmentDocument.do?translatedJudgmentID=6663" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Barhapur man, a sewadar at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi, was abducted from outside the gurudwara on 30 October 1992 by a U.P. police party led by SHO Dhirendra Singh Yadav and shot dead the next morning in Kanshiwala jungle, Bijnor, in what police claimed was an encounter with a Sikh militant during combing operations. False cases were registered at PS Barhapur and an AK-56 rifle planted beside the body. On a relative's writ petition the Supreme Court entrusted investigation to the CBI, which charge-sheeted the police party, and the Special CBI Court at Ghaziabad convicted 17 policemen and sentenced them to life imprisonment in March 2012. The High Court dismissed all appeals, holding the extra-judicial killing, abduction and fabrication of records proved beyond reasonable doubt and the self-defence encounter claim palpably false, cancelling Jaipal Singh's bail and taking him into custody.", "summary_verified": "A Barhapur man, a sewadar at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi, was abducted from outside the gurudwara on 30 October 1992 by a U.P. police party led by SHO Dhirendra Singh Yadav and shot dead the next morning in Kanshiwala jungle, Bijnor, in what police claimed was an encounter with a Sikh militant during combing operations. False cases were registered at PS Barhapur and an AK-56 rifle planted beside the body. On a relative's writ petition the Supreme Court entrusted investigation to the CBI, which charge-sheeted the police party, and the Special CBI Court at Ghaziabad convicted 17 policemen and sentenced them to life imprisonment in March 2012. The High Court dismissed all appeals, holding the extra-judicial killing, abduction and fabrication of records proved beyond reasonable doubt and the self-defence encounter claim palpably false, cancelling Jaipal Singh's bail and taking him into custody.", "court_quote": "The charges framed against them have been proved beyond all reasonable doubts. As the sentence awarded to the appellants is minimum, the same requires no interference. The appeals are, accordingly, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "67", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC dismissed appeals of 17 policemen, upholding life sentences for abduction and fake-encounter killing of a Barhapur man", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2020-10-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157781726/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebDownloadOriginalHCJudgmentDocument.do?translatedJudgmentID=6663", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-018", "officers_named_public": 16, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2021-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0744", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rohania Man and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rohania Man and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Varanasi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rohania", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Rohania, Varanasi", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rohania Man and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 16386 of 2020", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2021 ALL 1297", "judges": [ "Surya Prakash Kesarwani", "Shamim Ahmed" ], "judgment_date": "2021-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "2020-10-08", "incident_year": 2020, "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 151", "CrPC 107", "CrPC 116" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Rohania, Varanasi", "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-Inspector, Police Station Rohania, Varanasi" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rohania man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rohania man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/174699131/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-courtup-govt-arbitrary-illegal-submission-of-challan-reports-under-sections-107116-crpc-169680" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Police arrested the two petitioners under Section 151 Cr.P.C. on 8 October 2020 over an ancestral land dispute, and a Sub-Inspector of Rohania police station sent a printed-form challani report under Sections 151/107/116 Cr.P.C. with only names and the words 'land dispute' filled in. The SDM registered the case without recording satisfaction or issuing a show-cause order and kept the petitioners detained from 12 to 21 October 2020 even after they submitted personal bonds. The Division Bench held the police authorities were arbitrarily and illegally submitting such challani reports and that the SDM acted in clear breach of Sections 107, 111 and 116 Cr.P.C. and Article 21. It recorded payment of Rs. 25,000 compensation to each petitioner under the State policy of 23 March 2021 and issued statewide compliance directions. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police arrested the two petitioners under Section 151 Cr.P.C. on 8 October 2020 over an ancestral land dispute, and a Sub-Inspector of Rohania police station sent a printed-form challani report under Sections 151/107/116 Cr.P.C. with only names and the words 'land dispute' filled in. The SDM registered the case without recording satisfaction or issuing a show-cause order and kept the petitioners detained from 12 to 21 October 2020 even after they submitted personal bonds. The Division Bench held the police authorities were arbitrarily and illegally submitting such challani reports and that the SDM acted in clear breach of Sections 107, 111 and 116 Cr.P.C. and Article 21. It recorded payment of Rs. 25,000 compensation to each petitioner under the State policy of 23 March 2021 and issued statewide compliance directions.", "court_quote": "Non release of the petitioners by the respondent no.3 even after submission of personal bond/bail bond and other papers, is a clear breach of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; police challan practice held arbitrary and illegal, Rs. 25,000 paid to each of 2 detenus.", "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": "2021-06-11", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIRONLINE 2021 ALL 1297", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/174699131/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-courtup-govt-arbitrary-illegal-submission-of-challan-reports-under-sections-107116-crpc-169680", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-49" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0655", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "In Re v. [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "In Re v. [name withheld]", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Shahjahanpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kanth", "police_station_or_unit": "Kanth Police Station", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "In Re v. [name withheld]", "case_number": "Contempt Application (Criminal) No. 5 of 2022", "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (AB) 382", "judges": [ "Suneet Kumar", "Syed Waiz Mian" ], "judgment_date": "2022-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 2022, "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": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 353", "IPC 504", "IPC 506" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer (In-charge)", "unit": "Kanth Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer (In-charge), Kanth Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kanth man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.038, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://lawbeat.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/Arnesh%20Kumar%20Judgment.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-court-sentences-police-officer-14-day-imprisonment-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/08/24/allahabad-high-court-grants-14-days-imprisonment-to-investigating-officer-for-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-in-contempt/" ], "summary": "Investigating Officer, In-charge of Kanth Police Station (Shahjahanpur), served a Section 41-A CrPC notice in a case under Sections 353/504/506 IPC but wilfully recorded in the general diary that the accused declined its terms, arresting him in deliberate circumvention of the Arnesh Kumar mandate; the Magistrate refused remand and made a contempt reference. The Division Bench rejected his qualified apology and held him guilty of contempt for imposing himself over and above the law. He was sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine, kept in abeyance for 60 days to prefer a Section 19 appeal.", "summary_verified": "Investigating Officer, In-charge of Kanth Police Station (Shahjahanpur), served a Section 41-A CrPC notice in a case under Sections 353/504/506 IPC but wilfully recorded in the general diary that the accused declined its terms, arresting him in deliberate circumvention of the Arnesh Kumar mandate; the Magistrate refused remand and made a contempt reference. The Division Bench rejected his qualified apology and held him guilty of contempt for imposing himself over and above the law. He was sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine, kept in abeyance for 60 days to prefer a Section 19 appeal.", "court_quote": "The misleading entry in the GD was made willfully and deliberately with sole purpose to bypass the mandate in Arnesh Kumar (supra), in order to arrest the accused. The contemnor, in the circumstances, has circumvent the mandate which was binding upon him.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC contempt conviction verified via judgment PDF text and 3+ reports; 14 days SI + fine for bypassing Arnesh Kumar.", "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": "2022-08-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2022 LiveLaw (AB) 382", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Official source added: Allahabad High Court order in Contempt Application (Criminal) No. 5 of 2022 dated 18.8.2022 (copy hosted by LawBeat): Kanth Police Station investigating officer sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment and Rs 1,000 fine, sentence kept in abeyance 60 days." } ], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/Arnesh Kumar Judgment.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-court-sentences-police-officer-14-day-imprisonment-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/08/24/allahabad-high-court-grants-14-days-imprisonment-to-investigating-officer-for-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-in-contempt/", "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-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-019", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0966", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "U.P. Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "U.P. Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Hamirpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chikasi", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Chikasi, District Hamirpur", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "U.P. Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 4666 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Kaushal Jayendra Thaker", "Ajai Tyagi" ], "judgment_date": "2022-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2008-01-02", "incident_year": 2008, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302 (trial court; converted to s.304 Part I on appeal)", "IPC 323", "IPC 304 Part I" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "U.P. Police, Police Station Chikasi, Hamirpur", "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": "Constable, U.P. Police, Police Station Chikasi, Hamirpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Chikasi woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chikasi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 10.58, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/95858626/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 22 December 2022) partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 4666 of 2014 but sustained the guilt of U.P. Police Constable of Police Station Chikasi, Hamirpur, who on 2 January 2008 abused and beat fellow constable with a rifle butt at the station gate and then fired his government rifle at the constable's mother [name withheld] when she intervened; she died of the gunshot injury after giving a dying declaration. The Court held the killing was homicidal but unpremeditated, a single shot in the spur of the moment, converting the trial court's Section 302 IPC life sentence (Sessions Trial No. 9 of 2009, decided 27 November 2014) to Section 304 Part I IPC. The appellant was sentenced to the period already undergone (10 years 7 months with remission) with a fine of Rs.5,000 (three months' simple imprisonment in default). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 22 December 2022) partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 4666 of 2014 but sustained the guilt of U.P. Police Constable of Police Station Chikasi, Hamirpur, who on 2 January 2008 abused and beat fellow constable with a rifle butt at the station gate and then fired his government rifle at the constable's mother [name withheld] when she intervened; she died of the gunshot injury after giving a dying declaration. The Court held the killing was homicidal but unpremeditated, a single shot in the spur of the moment, converting the trial court's Section 302 IPC life sentence (Sessions Trial No. 9 of 2009, decided 27 November 2014) to Section 304 Part I IPC. The appellant was sentenced to the period already undergone (10 years 7 months with remission) with a fine of Rs.5,000 (three months' simple imprisonment in default).", "court_quote": "On overall scrutiny of the facts and circumstances of this case coupled with dying declaration and other evidence on record, we are of the considered opinion that offence would be punishable under Section 304 (Part I) because it appears that the death of the deceased was not premeditated and it is a case of single gun shot. This case falls within the purview of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC sustained guilt of police constable; 302 converted to 304 Part I, sentence cut to time undergone.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 4666 of 2014", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2022-12-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 4666 of 2014", "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/95858626/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-8-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0394", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of U.P. v. Mukesh Kumar", "display_title_redacted": "State of U.P. v. Mukesh Kumar", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Ghaziabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ghaziabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Chowki Maharajpur, PS Link Road, Ghaziabad", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of U.P. v. Mukesh Kumar", "case_number": "Government Appeal No. 4585 of 2003", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dinesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2023-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2000-09-07", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Mukesh Kumar", "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Chowki Maharajpur, PS Link Road, Ghaziabad", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Mukesh Kumar", "display": "Mukesh Kumar (Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ghaziabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/181092484/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Mukesh Kumar of Maharajpur Outpost under Link Road Police Station in Ghaziabad demanded monthly extortion bribes of Rs 500 from each three-wheeler tempo owner operating between Maharajpur and Sahibabad Mandi under threat of stopping their vehicles. Complainant [name withheld] approached the Vigilance Department at Meerut, and following an inquiry, an anti-corruption trap was executed on 7 September 2000. The respondent was caught red-handed inside his room at the outpost accepting Rs 7,000 in tainted currency collected from fourteen vehicle owners along with a written list, and chemical tests on his hands and pocket yielded positive results. Although the Special Judge (Anti-Corruption), Meerut, acquitted the respondent in May 2003 on unfounded allegations of enmity, the Allahabad High Court reversed the acquittal, found the demand, acceptance, and recovery conclusively established, and convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to one year of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 3,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable Mukesh Kumar of Maharajpur Outpost under Link Road Police Station in Ghaziabad demanded monthly extortion bribes of Rs 500 from each three-wheeler tempo owner operating between Maharajpur and Sahibabad Mandi under threat of stopping their vehicles. Complainant [name withheld] approached the Vigilance Department at Meerut, and following an inquiry, an anti-corruption trap was executed on 7 September 2000. The respondent was caught red-handed inside his room at the outpost accepting Rs 7,000 in tainted currency collected from fourteen vehicle owners along with a written list, and chemical tests on his hands and pocket yielded positive results. Although the Special Judge (Anti-Corruption), Meerut, acquitted the respondent in May 2003 on unfounded allegations of enmity, the Allahabad High Court reversed the acquittal, found the demand, acceptance, and recovery conclusively established, and convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to one year of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 3,000.", "court_quote": "Considering the testimony of the witnesses including the complainant, independent witnesses and the Inspectors, I am of the view the the accused-respondent was guilty for offence under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act. Therefore, the impugned judgement and order of acquittal is liable to be set aside.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC reversed acquittal, convicting Head Constable under ss. 7 and 13(1)(d)/13(2) PC Act for extorting tempo operators.", "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": "2023-05-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Government Appeal No. 4585 of 2003", "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/181092484/", "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-13" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-007", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0446", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "UP Police Sub-Inspector vs State of U.P. and connected appeals (UP Police personnel vs State)", "display_title_redacted": "UP Police Sub-Inspector vs State of U.P. and connected appeals (UP Police personnel vs State)", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Gautam Buddha Nagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Noida", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Sector-39/Sector-20 Noida; SOG Noida", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "UP Police Sub-Inspector vs State of U.P. and connected appeals (UP Police personnel vs State)", "case_number": "CRL.A. 488/2019, 499/2019, 537/2019, 622/2019, 624/2019, 1023/2019, 1025/2019", "citation": "2023:DHC:4293", "judges": [ "Mukta Gupta", "Anish Dayal" ], "judgment_date": "2023-06-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2006-09-01", "incident_year": 2006, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part I", "IPC 365", "IPC 220", "IPC 167", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "SOG Noida", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, SOG Noida" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "SOG Noida", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, SOG Noida" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "SOG Noida", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, SOG Noida" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "UP Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, UP Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "UP Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, UP Police" } ], "officer_count": 6, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 26, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Noida man, age 26" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 10, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/142461883/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/police-responsible-abduction-illegal-detention-death-conviction-police-officers-custodial-death-1482762", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-upholds-conviction-10-yrs-sentence-of-five-uttar-pradesh-cops-custodial-torture-26-yr-old-231352" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. On 1 September 2006 Noida police in civil dress took 26-year-old a Noida man @ a Noida man from his house without justification to Chowki Nithari in connection with a robbery case; he died in the PS Sector-20 lock-up and police claimed suicide by hanging. The trial, transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court, ended in March 2019 with the conviction of six UP policemen: the Inspector got 3 years RI under Section 365/34 IPC, and two Sub-Inspectors and three constables got 10 years RI under Section 304/34 plus sentences under Sections 220, 365 and 167 IPC, concurrent. The Delhi High Court rejected the suicide theory, held the shirt-noose and GD entries inconclusive or manipulated, and applied the Section 106 Evidence Act presumption on facts within the special knowledge of the police. It dismissed all convict appeals and the complainant's plea for Section 302 enhancement, also upholding the acquittal of SI. Subcategory corrected from enforced_disappearance to custodial_death as the gravamen is death in custody with 10-year s.304 sentences; the s.365 abduction convictions are retained in the sections. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 1 September 2006 Noida police in civil dress took 26-year-old a Noida man @ a Noida man from his house without justification to Chowki Nithari in connection with a robbery case; he died in the PS Sector-20 lock-up and police claimed suicide by hanging. The trial, transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court, ended in March 2019 with the conviction of six UP policemen: the Inspector got 3 years RI under Section 365/34 IPC, and two Sub-Inspectors and three constables got 10 years RI under Section 304/34 plus sentences under Sections 220, 365 and 167 IPC, concurrent. The Delhi High Court rejected the suicide theory, held the shirt-noose and GD entries inconclusive or manipulated, and applied the Section 106 Evidence Act presumption on facts within the special knowledge of the police. It dismissed all convict appeals and the complainant's plea for Section 302 enhancement, also upholding the acquittal of SI. Subcategory corrected from enforced_disappearance to custodial_death as the gravamen is death in custody with 10-year s.304 sentences; the s.365 abduction convictions are retained in the sections.", "court_quote": "The Ld. Trial Court has rightly convicted the said accused for the offences and the appeals by the accused viz. CRL.A. 488/2019, CRL.A. 499/2019, CRL.A. 537/2019, CRL.A. 622/2019 and CRL.A. 624/2019 are, therefore, dismissed and the conviction and sentence awarded by the learned trial court are upheld;", "court_quote_para": "12(a)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Convictions of 6 UP policemen upheld (ss.304/220/365/167); all appeals dismissed.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2023:DHC:4293", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2023-06-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2023:DHC:4293", "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/142461883/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/police-responsible-abduction-illegal-detention-death-conviction-police-officers-custodial-death-1482762", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-upholds-conviction-10-yrs-sentence-of-five-uttar-pradesh-cops-custodial-torture-26-yr-old-231352", "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-31" ], "merged_case_id": "SWENFORC-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0403", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ramkola Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ramkola Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Kushinagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ramkola", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Ramkola", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ramkola Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 6349 of 2024", "citation": "2024:AHC:98816-DB", "judges": [ "Siddharth", "Surendra Singh-I" ], "judgment_date": "2024-05-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2024-02-09", "incident_year": 2024, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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 s.151", "CrPC s.107", "CrPC s.116", "CrPC s.111" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "PS Ramkola, Kushinagar", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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-Inspector, PS Ramkola, Kushinagar" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ramkola man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Ramkola resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 35000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/6786079/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court held that Sudarshan Yadav and another, challaned by the PS Ramkola Sub-Inspector under Sections 151, 107 and 116 CrPC over a land dispute and jailed by the Deputy District Magistrate Kaptanganj on 10 February 2024, stayed behind bars till 2 March 2024 in violation of the legal provisions, with the State counter affidavit offering no justification. Following its Ramesh Chand Gupta ruling, the Court allowed the writ and quashed the show-cause order and Case No. 4082 of 2024. It ordered the State to pay Rs 25,000 costs plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within six weeks, with a compliance report to the Registrar. No individual officer was named and no recovery was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court held that S. Y. and another, challaned by the PS Ramkola Sub-Inspector under Sections 151, 107 and 116 CrPC over a land dispute and jailed by the Deputy District Magistrate Kaptanganj on 10 February 2024, stayed behind bars till 2 March 2024 in violation of the legal provisions, with the State counter affidavit offering no justification. Following its Ramesh Chand Gupta ruling, the Court allowed the writ and quashed the show-cause order and Case No. 4082 of 2024. It ordered the State to pay Rs 25,000 costs plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within six weeks, with a compliance report to the Registrar. No individual officer was named and no recovery was ordered.", "court_quote": "In the counter affidavit, no justification has been made as to why the petitioners were kept behind bars and were only released on 02.03.2024 in violation of legal provisions noted above.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "21-day jail (10.02.2024-02.03.2024) on unsustainable 151/107/116 challan; proceedings quashed; Rs 25k + 10k costs.", "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": "2024-05-30", "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 35,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2024:AHC:98816-DB", "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/6786079/", "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-30" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0041", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1123", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable (General Duty)", "display_title_redacted": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable (General Duty)", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Mainpuri", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barnhal", "police_station_or_unit": "149 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable (General Duty)", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7933 of 2024 (arising out of SLP(C) No. 25631 of 2019)", "citation": "2024 INSC 550; [2024] 7 S.C.R. 910", "judges": [ "Hima Kohli", "Ahsanuddin Amanullah" ], "judgment_date": "2024-07-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2011-11-17", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (General Duty)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "149 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)", "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": "Constable (General Duty), 149 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/union-of-india-v-shishu-pal-shiv-palwatermark-1640206.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165563836/", "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/stringent-yardsticks-in-law-enforcement-agencies-supreme-court-terminates-crpf-constables-appointment-for-suppressing-criminal-case-264345" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed CRPF Constable (GD) on 17 November 2011 and denied any arrest or pending case in his verification roll, though FIR No. 76 of 2011 at Barnhal, Mainpuri, and two criminal cases were pending against him. The inquiry also found he filed fake SHO reports during verification, and he was terminated on 24 June 2014 (upheld 23 September 2014). The Supreme Court held suppression proved beyond doubt, including concealment of judicial custody and bail, and applied a stringent yardstick for law-enforcement appointments. It allowed the Union's appeal, set aside the Gauhati High Court's reinstatement orders, and restored termination.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was appointed CRPF Constable (GD) on 17 November 2011 and denied any arrest or pending case in his verification roll, though FIR No. 76 of 2011 at Barnhal, Mainpuri, and two criminal cases were pending against him. The inquiry also found he filed fake SHO reports during verification, and he was terminated on 24 June 2014 (upheld 23 September 2014). The Supreme Court held suppression proved beyond doubt, including concealment of judicial custody and bail, and applied a stringent yardstick for law-enforcement appointments. It allowed the Union's appeal, set aside the Gauhati High Court's reinstatement orders, and restored termination.", "court_quote": "Full sentence: 'The respondent does not deserve any latitude as it has been established beyond doubt that he was all along aware of the FIR registered against him with Barnhal Police Station, Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh and the ensuing criminal cases.' (para 26)", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; CRPF constable's termination for suppression of criminal cases restored (disciplinary_upheld).", "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": "2024-07-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2024 INSC 550; [2024] 7 S.C.R. 910", "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": [ "court_quote" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/union-of-india-v-shishu-pal-shiv-palwatermark-1640206.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165563836/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/stringent-yardsticks-in-law-enforcement-agencies-supreme-court-terminates-crpf-constables-appointment-for-suppressing-criminal-case-264345", "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-101" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-135-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0045", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0940", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Lucknow Woman and Another v. State of U.P. and 4 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Lucknow Woman and Another v. State of U.P. and 4 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Lucknow", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lucknow", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": "Lucknow", "case_title": "Lucknow Woman and Another v. State of U.P. and 4 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. 365 of 2024", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Attau Rahman Masoodi", "Subhash Vidyarthi" ], "judgment_date": "2024-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2024-11-29", "incident_year": 2024, "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": [ "IPC 363" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra", "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-Inspector, Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra" }, { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow", "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": "SHO, Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Lucknow woman", "name": null }, { "age": 2, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Lucknow youngster, age 2", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": 2, "gender": null, "descriptor": "a 2-year-old child" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/365-of-2024-1672184.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/chandini-singh-v-state-of-up-allahabad-hc-slams-up-police-for-detaining-pregnant-woman-child-1560178", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-slaps-1-lakh-fine-up-police-pregnant-woman-police-station" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Division Bench, 29-11-2024), convened at 6:30 p.m. on a habeas mentioning, found that investigating officer Sub-Inspector of Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra, took an eight-months-pregnant woman and her two-year-old child from home to Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow, at about 12:15 p.m. merely to record a section 161 statement in a 2021 kidnapping FIR and kept them there until the court intervened. The court found the FIR disclosed no cognizable offence, the officer acted without case diary and without checking age or marital status, and called the detention torture and a clear abuse of authority. It awarded Rs.1,00,000 exemplary cost against the State as compensation payable within ten days, restored the victim to her residence, and directed the Director General of Police to draw proceedings against the investigating officer within three months and report back on 11-12-2024. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Division Bench, 29-11-2024), convened at 6:30 p.m. on a habeas mentioning, found that investigating officer Sub-Inspector of Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra, took an eight-months-pregnant woman and her two-year-old child from home to Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow, at about 12:15 p.m. merely to record a section 161 statement in a 2021 kidnapping FIR and kept them there until the court intervened. The court found the FIR disclosed no cognizable offence, the officer acted without case diary and without checking age or marital status, and called the detention torture and a clear abuse of authority. It awarded Rs.1,00,000 exemplary cost against the State as compensation payable within ten days, restored the victim to her residence, and directed the Director General of Police to draw proceedings against the investigating officer within three months and report back on 11-12-2024.", "court_quote": "The action on the part of the Investigating Officer is no less than torture of a victim whereas every officer is expected to act fairly in the discharge of his duties.", "court_quote_para": "para 8", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held 6-hour detention of pregnant woman and child torture; Rs.1 lakh compensation, DGP action ordered.", "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": "2024-11-29", "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": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. 365 of 2024", "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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/365-of-2024-1672184.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/chandini-singh-v-state-of-up-allahabad-hc-slams-up-police-for-detaining-pregnant-woman-child-1560178", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-slaps-1-lakh-fine-up-police-pregnant-woman-police-station", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-4-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0057", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1334", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bahraich Man And Others vs State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. And Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bahraich Man And Others vs State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. And Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Bahraich", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Matera, District Bahraich", "court": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bahraich Man And Others vs State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. And Others", "case_number": "CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 9068 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Abdul Moin", "Babita Rani" ], "judgment_date": "2025-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-09-18", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Section 189 of BNSS, 2023 / Section 169 Cr.P.C." ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police personnel", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Matera, District Bahraich", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Police Station Matera, District Bahraich" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bahraich man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189713960/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the conversion FIR dated 13.09.2025 was a glaring example of authorities acting to score brownie points. The High Court held that despite the woman's statement that she had gone on her own accord and return of jewellery, the authorities failed to release the petitioner under Section 169 Cr.P.C. / Section 189 BNSS. The High Court quashed the FIR and ordered immediate release if not wanted elsewhere. The High Court imposed exemplary cost of Rs. 75,000 on the State, with Rs. 50,000 to petitioner no.1 and Rs. 25,000 to Legal Aid.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the conversion FIR dated 13.09.2025 was a glaring example of authorities acting to score brownie points. The High Court held that despite the woman's statement that she had gone on her own accord and return of jewellery, the authorities failed to release the petitioner under Section 169 Cr.P.C. / Section 189 BNSS. The High Court quashed the FIR and ordered immediate release if not wanted elsewhere. The High Court imposed exemplary cost of Rs. 75,000 on the State, with Rs. 50,000 to petitioner no.1 and Rs. 25,000 to Legal Aid.", "court_quote": "in order to score brownie points on the basis of the FIR", "court_quote_para": "para 7", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2025-10-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 9068 of 2025", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189713960/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "swarm-verify-cop-up-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-up-hc-3", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0042", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0941", "alias_merged_ids": [], "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", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "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" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Cantt, Gorakhpur", "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-Inspector, Police Station Cantt, Gorakhpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Lucknow man" } ], "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", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-up-police-credible-information-1-lakh-compensation-wrongful-arrest-521856", "https://www.shoneekapoor.com/legal-news/false-rape-case-police-arrest-hc" ], "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", "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": "2026-01-20", "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." } ], "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://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", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-up-police-credible-information-1-lakh-compensation-wrongful-arrest-521856", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.shoneekapoor.com/legal-news/false-rape-case-police-arrest-hc", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-4-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0619", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Aligarh Resident v. State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Aligarh Resident v. State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Aligarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Aligarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Quarsi Police Station", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Aligarh Resident v. State of U.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 6607 of 2026", "citation": "2026:AHC:48326", "judges": [ "Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal" ], "judgment_date": "2026-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-02-23", "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": [ "BNS 303(2)", "BNS 317(2)", "BNS 317(4)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Quarsi Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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": "Investigating Officer, Quarsi Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Aligarh resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/41540002/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-orders-50k-compensation-for-accused-who-spent-15-extra-days-in-jail-after-police-error", "https://lawtrend.in/allahabad-high-court-orders-up-govt-to-pay-₹50000-compensation-over-15-day-bail-delay-caused-by-police-error/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. An Aligarh resident, in jail since November 2025 in a car-theft case (Case Crime 1108/2025, PS Quarsi, Aligarh), would have been released on bail on 23 February 2026 but for the investigating officer's instructions wrongly showing 12 criminal cases instead of the 5 he had explained, a mistake the ADG (Technical Services) confirmed via CCTNS records. The High Court found there was no malafide but negligence on the IO's part that kept the applicant in jail 15 extra days for no fault of his own. The Court granted bail and directed the State to pay Rs 50,000 compensation within one month, with systemic directions on case-diary access and video-conferencing facilities. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "An Aligarh resident, in jail since November 2025 in a car-theft case (Case Crime 1108/2025, PS Quarsi, Aligarh), would have been released on bail on 23 February 2026 but for the investigating officer's instructions wrongly showing 12 criminal cases instead of the 5 he had explained, a mistake the ADG (Technical Services) confirmed via CCTNS records. The High Court found there was no malafide but negligence on the IO's part that kept the applicant in jail 15 extra days for no fault of his own. The Court granted bail and directed the State to pay Rs 50,000 compensation within one month, with systemic directions on case-diary access and video-conferencing facilities.", "court_quote": "As it is not in dispute that the applicant has remained in jail for additional 15 days for the reason that incorrect criminal history of 12 cases has been sent by the concerned I.O. in his instructions to learned AGA though the applicant has already explained the criminal history of five cases. Therefore, compensation of Rs.50,000/- shall be paid by the State to the applicant within a period of one month from today.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 50,000 compensation for 15 extra jail days from police error.", "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": "2026-03-10", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026:AHC:48326", "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/41540002/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-orders-50k-compensation-for-accused-who-spent-15-extra-days-in-jail-after-police-error", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawtrend.in/allahabad-high-court-orders-up-govt-to-pay-₹50000-compensation-over-15-day-bail-delay-caused-by-police-error/", "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-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-047", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0634", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Asiwan Man (through his son Asiwan Man) vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Asiwan Man (through his son Asiwan Man) vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Unnao", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Asiwan", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Asiwan", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": "Lucknow", "case_title": "Asiwan Man (through his son Asiwan Man) vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "case_number": "Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 137/2026", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 265", "judges": [ "Abdul Moin", "Pramod Kumar Srivastava" ], "judgment_date": "2026-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-01-27", "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": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Asiwan, Unnao", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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, Police Station Asiwan, Unnao" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Asiwan man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/07/manoj-kumar-thru-his-son-mudit-kumar-vs-state-of-up-thru-prin-secy-home-deptt-up-lko-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-265-allahabad-high-court-672450.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-up-govt-10-lakh-compensation-3-month-illegal-detention-533301", "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-stays-order-granting-rs-10-lakh-compensation-to-man-illegally-arrested-by-up-police-538590", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/supreme-court-stays-order-awarding-10-lakh-compensation-to-man-held-in-illegal-custody-by-up-police" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. An Asiwan man was arrested on 27 January 2026 in Case Crime 244/2024 though the arrest memo cited only the case number without specific grounds, and was remanded on 28 January 2026. The court found the arrest violated Article 22(1) under Mihir Rajesh Shah and the remand based on it was also illegal, ordering forthwith release after 3+ months in custody. It imposed Rs 10 lakh exemplary costs on the State payable within 4 weeks, with liberty to recover from responsible officials. On 22 June 2026 the Supreme Court stayed payment of the compensation on the State's quantum-only appeal, when the State informed the court the SHO had been suspended.", "summary_verified": "An Asiwan man was arrested on 27 January 2026 in Case Crime 244/2024 though the arrest memo cited only the case number without specific grounds, and was remanded on 28 January 2026. The court found the arrest violated Article 22(1) under Mihir Rajesh Shah and the remand based on it was also illegal, ordering forthwith release after 3+ months in custody. It imposed Rs 10 lakh exemplary costs on the State payable within 4 weeks, with liberty to recover from responsible officials. On 22 June 2026 the Supreme Court stayed payment of the compensation on the State's quantum-only appeal, when the State informed the court the SHO had been suspended.", "court_quote": "Para 14 (operative, contiguous): 'A writ of habeas corpus is issued declaring the arrest of the petitioner as illegal. The remand order dated 28.1.2026 being consequential to the illegal arrest is also set aside.' Para 15 (contiguous): 'Further, considering the illegal arrest of the petitioner since 27.1.2026 which continues even as of date i.e. 29.4.2026 and his illegal incarceration in jail being of more than three months, the Court is of the view that exemplary costs quantified at Rupees Ten Lakhs are also imposed on the State authorities.'", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC finding verified (2026 LiveLaw AB 265); Rs 10 lakh costs for 3-month illegal detention; SC stayed only payment on quantum appeal (22-06-2026), illegality finding stands.", "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": "2026-04-29", "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 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 265", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/07/manoj-kumar-thru-his-son-mudit-kumar-vs-state-of-up-thru-prin-secy-home-deptt-up-lko-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-265-allahabad-high-court-672450.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-up-govt-10-lakh-compensation-3-month-illegal-detention-533301", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-stays-order-granting-rs-10-lakh-compensation-to-man-illegally-arrested-by-up-police-538590", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/supreme-court-stays-order-awarding-10-lakh-compensation-to-man-held-in-illegal-custody-by-up-police", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-48" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTH-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0402", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1446" ], "display_title": "Itwa Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Itwa Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Siddharthnagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Itwa", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Itwa", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Itwa Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "case_number": "Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 451 of 2026", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 302", "judges": [ "Siddharth", "Vinai Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2026-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-04-04", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "unit": "PS Itwa, Siddharthnagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.33, "jev_p_culpable": 0.82, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "SHO, PS Itwa, Siddharthnagar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "PS Itwa, Siddharthnagar", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.13, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Itwa, Siddharthnagar" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Itwa man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2026/05/anil-soni-corpus-and-another-vs-state-of-up-and-3-others-2026-livelaw-ab-302-allahabad-high-court-677042.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-up-govt-5-lakh-compensation-man-arrest-detain-illegally-despite-stay-order-536263", "https://courtbook.in/posts/allahabad-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-for-illegal-arrest-despite-stay-order-directs-action-against-sho", "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/30/anil-soni-corpus-and-another-vs-state-of-up-and-3-others-2026-livelaw-ab-302-allahabad-high-court-677042.pdf", "https://lawtrend.in/unfortunate-trend-allahabad-hc-orders-up-govt-to-pay-5-lakh-for-mans-illegal-arrest-despite-stay-order/" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court held that an Itwa man was arrested on 4 April 2026 by the SHO and kept in jail till 29 April 2026 despite a coordinate Bench stay of arrest dated 1 April 2026 passed in the presence of the AGA, which counsel personally brought to the SHO notice. The Court found the SHO paid no heed even after the habeas petition, acting mala fide with dereliction of duty and indiscipline in violating a court order. Relying on Rudal Shah and Nilabati Behera, it ordered Rs 5 lakh compensation within one month recoverable from the SHO, directed disciplinary proceedings against him, and ordered the SP Siddharthnagar to file a compliance affidavit. The judgment twice mistypes the district as Gautam Buddh Nagar; PS Itwa, the CJM and the SP are all Siddharthnagar. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court held that an Itwa man was arrested on 4 April 2026 by the SHO and kept in jail till 29 April 2026 despite a coordinate Bench stay of arrest dated 1 April 2026 passed in the presence of the AGA, which counsel personally brought to the SHO notice. The Court found the SHO paid no heed even after the habeas petition, acting mala fide with dereliction of duty and indiscipline in violating a court order. Relying on Rudal Shah and Nilabati Behera, it ordered Rs 5 lakh compensation within one month recoverable from the SHO, directed disciplinary proceedings against him, and ordered the SP Siddharthnagar to file a compliance affidavit. The judgment twice mistypes the district as Gautam Buddh Nagar; PS Itwa, the CJM and the SP are all Siddharthnagar.", "court_quote": "Therefore, it is absolutely clear that respondent no.3 made no efforts to get the order of the court complied. Therefore, his conduct proves that he deserves to be punishment of dereliction in due discharge of his official duty and also deserves to be monetarily penalized.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Arrest despite HC stay; 25 days jail; Rs 5 lakh recoverable from SHO + disciplinary proceedings.", "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": "2026-05-29", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 302", "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://s3.courtbook.in/2026/05/anil-soni-corpus-and-another-vs-state-of-up-and-3-others-2026-livelaw-ab-302-allahabad-high-court-677042.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-up-govt-5-lakh-compensation-man-arrest-detain-illegally-despite-stay-order-536263", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://courtbook.in/posts/allahabad-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-for-illegal-arrest-despite-stay-order-directs-action-against-sho", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/30/anil-soni-corpus-and-another-vs-state-of-up-and-3-others-2026-livelaw-ab-302-allahabad-high-court-677042.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawtrend.in/unfortunate-trend-allahabad-hc-orders-up-govt-to-pay-5-lakh-for-mans-illegal-arrest-despite-stay-order/", "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-30", "chunk-47", "chunk-48" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0854", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0399" ], "display_title": "Handia Man vs The State of U.P. & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Handia Man vs The State of U.P. & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Prayagraj", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Handia", "police_station_or_unit": "Outpost Baraut, PS Handia, Prayagraj", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Handia Man vs The State of U.P. & Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 3807 of 2023", "citation": null, "judges": [ "J.J. Munir", "Sanjiv Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2026-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2022-11-26", "incident_year": 2022, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "In-charge, Police Outpost", "unit": "Outpost Baraut, PS Handia, Prayagraj", "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": "In-charge, Police Outpost, Outpost Baraut, PS Handia, Prayagraj" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Handia man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 25000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/41914621/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-awards-25k-compensation-24-hour-illegal-detention-537111", "https://courtbook.in/posts/allahabad-hc-awards-compensation-after-finding-man-illegally-detained-for-24-hours-over-domestic-dispute", "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/06/08/matambar-mishra-vs-the-state-of-up-and-3-others-2026-livelaw-ab-319-allahabad-high-court-678514.pdf" ], "summary": "Rewrite: attribute inquiry-report criticism to the petitioner's pleadings (para 5), not to a Court holding; record Dubey's version (personal affidavit 03.12.2025: compromise letter per GD No.23 dated 27.11.2022, denied pressure) and the Court's rejection of it as tacit denial that is no denial (paras 11-12); attribute Rs.20,000 bribe claim to petitioner and note Court expressly declined to go into it (para 14). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Rewrite: attribute inquiry-report criticism to the petitioner's pleadings (para 5), not to a Court holding; record Dubey's version (personal affidavit 03.12.2025: compromise letter per GD No.23 dated 27.11.2022, denied pressure) and the Court's rejection of it as tacit denial that is no denial (paras 11-12); attribute Rs.20,000 bribe claim to petitioner and note Court expressly declined to go into it (para 14).", "court_quote": "In the totality of circumstances, we hold that the petitioner was illegally deprived of his liberty by Dubey, a police officer, in the colour of exercise of authority of the State, and for the aforesaid act, the petitioner must be given monetary recompense.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC awarded Rs 25,000 compensation plus costs for 24-hour illegal detention, recoverable from outpost in-charge Dubey.", "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": "2026-05-29", "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 25,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Misc. 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Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Add the SHO's counter-affidavit version (para 6) and State opposition (para 8); add caveat that operative para 17 dates the detention to March (22.3-25.3.2026) while paras 3-4 record February (22.2-25.2.2026), apparently a typographical slip in the judgment.", "court_quote": "Now coming to the facts of this case, it is clear that petitioner no.1 was illegally detained in jail from 22.3.2026 to 25.3.2026 and was released after filing of this petition on oral direction of this Court. Hence he is held entitled to compensation of Rs.75,000/- at the rate Rs.25,000/- per day of illegal detention.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified from primary PDF; Rs 75,000 for 3-day illegal preventive detention.", "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": "2026-06-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": 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"display_title": "Prayagraj Man and another vs State Of U.P. and 4 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Prayagraj Man and another vs State Of U.P. and 4 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Prayagraj", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Prayagraj", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Khiri, Commissionerate Prayagraj", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Prayagraj Man and another vs State Of U.P. and 4 Others", "case_number": "Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 317 of 2026", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 321", "judges": [ "Siddharth", "Vinai Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2026-06-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-03-19", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false 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"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": "SHO, PS Khiri, Prayagraj" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "PS Khiri, Prayagraj", "role": "named_only", "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-Inspector, PS Khiri, Prayagraj" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "PS Khiri, Prayagraj", "role": "named_only", "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": "Constable, PS Khiri, Prayagraj" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police personnel", "unit": "PS Khiri, Prayagraj", "role": "named_only", "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": "Police personnel, PS Khiri, Prayagraj" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Prayagraj man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2026-06-12/f61v5eol/Mansoor_Ahmad___Lallu_and_another_v_State_of_UP_and_4_Others.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-orders-state-to-pay-2-lakh-to-man-illegally-detained-for-8-days", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/shocking-affairs-in-prayagaraj-police-commissionerate-allahabad-high-court-flags-misuse-of-bnss-preventive-detention-powers-537402", "https://www.verdictum.in/allahabad-high-court/mansoor-ahmad-lallu-v-state-of-up-habeas-corpus-writ-petition-no-317-of-2026-2-lakh-compensation-illegal-detention-prayagraj-commissionerate-1615807", "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/06/12/habca3172026watermark-1779171.pdf" ], "summary": "Replace closing boilerplate with the recorded State version: AGA filed a counter affidavit (taken on record 27.4.2026); Commissioner's compliance affidavit averred no person was detained under BNSS 170/126/135 and stated persons refusing personal bonds are sent to judicial custody (para 11). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Replace closing boilerplate with the recorded State version: AGA filed a counter affidavit (taken on record 27.4.2026); Commissioner's compliance affidavit averred no person was detained under BNSS 170/126/135 and stated persons refusing personal bonds are sent to judicial custody (para 11).", "court_quote": "Therefore, it is clear that the provisions of Sections 170, 126, and 135 of the B.N.S.S. were flagrantly violated by the Assistant Commissioner of Police/Special In-charge Magistrate, Commissionerate Prayagraj. If petitioner no. 1 did not furnished the personal bond on 19.03.2026, the next date, i.e., 20.03.2026, should have been fixed to provide him an opportunity to furnish personal bond for keeping the peace and maintaining good behaviour. The Assistant Commissioner of Police fixed the next date after eight days; therefore, petitioner no. 1 was kept in illegal detention for eight days, dehors the provisions of law.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "8-day illegal judicial custody in BNSS preventive proceedings; Rs 2 lakh @25k/day, recoverable from ACP.", "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": "2026-06-08", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 321", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2026-06-12/f61v5eol/Mansoor_Ahmad___Lallu_and_another_v_State_of_UP_and_4_Others.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-orders-state-to-pay-2-lakh-to-man-illegally-detained-for-8-days", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/shocking-affairs-in-prayagaraj-police-commissionerate-allahabad-high-court-flags-misuse-of-bnss-preventive-detention-powers-537402", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/allahabad-high-court/mansoor-ahmad-lallu-v-state-of-up-habeas-corpus-writ-petition-no-317-of-2026-2-lakh-compensation-illegal-detention-prayagraj-commissionerate-1615807", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/06/12/habca3172026watermark-1779171.pdf", "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-30", "chunk-45" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0041", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0745", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bisalpur Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Bisalpur Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Pilibhit", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bisalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Posted at Bareilly", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bisalpur Police Constable vs State of U.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 2564 of 1985", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 477", "judges": [ "Santosh Rai" ], "judgment_date": "2026-07-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "1984-08-21", "incident_year": 1984, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 307" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Posted at Bareilly; offence at Bisalpur, Pilibhit", "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": "Constable, Posted at Bareilly; offence at Bisalpur, Pilibhit" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bisalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 4, "compensation_inr": 35000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://livelaw-cnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/2026/07/28/bux-ullah-alias-burey-ali-vs-state-of-up-2026-livelaw-ab-477-allahabad-high-court-689792.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-reduce-jail-term-cop-convict-1984-attempt-murder-victim-35000-compensation-543118" ], "summary": "Change closing sentence to record that the appellant's defence of denial and plea of unsoundness of mind were recorded and rejected (paras 17-18). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Change closing sentence to record that the appellant's defence of denial and plea of unsoundness of mind were recorded and rejected (paras 17-18).", "court_quote": "The conviction of the appellant, [name withheld] under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, as recorded by the Trial Court in S.T. No. 319 of 1984, is hereby affirmed.", "court_quote_para": "25(i)", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Conviction affirmed with 6-to-4-year reduction verified via LiveLaw report and judgment PDF; personal-motive stabbing by constable.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 477", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2026-07-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (AB) 477", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "outcome_type", "court_quote_para", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://livelaw-cnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/2026/07/28/bux-ullah-alias-burey-ali-vs-state-of-up-2026-livelaw-ab-477-allahabad-high-court-689792.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-reduce-jail-term-cop-convict-1984-attempt-murder-victim-35000-compensation-543118", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-49" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0066", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1333", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Agra Woman And 2 Others vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Agra Woman And 2 Others vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Agra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sadar Bazar / Police Station Cyber Crime, Agra", "court": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "bench": null, "case_title": "Agra Woman And 2 Others vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. - 1079 of 2026", "citation": "2026:AHC:165122", "judges": [ "Sandeep Jain" ], "judgment_date": "2026-08-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": [ "Section 87 BNS", "U.P. Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Cyber Crime, Agra", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector, Police Station Cyber Crime, Agra" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Cyber Crime, Agra", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Cyber Crime, Agra" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Agra woman" }, { "name": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Agra woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/34334003/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that confinement of the two adult women in the parental home against their wishes was unlawful and without legal sanction. The High Court held that the State machinery failed to discharge its constitutional obligations to protect their liberty. The High Court declared both women free to live where they choose and directed police protection and return of documents. The High Court awarded Rs. 25,00,000 compensation to be shared equally, payable by the father and the State, with liberty to recover from erring staff.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that confinement of the two adult women in the parental home against their wishes was unlawful and without legal sanction. The High Court held that the State machinery failed to discharge its constitutional obligations to protect their liberty. The High Court declared both women free to live where they choose and directed police protection and return of documents. The High Court awarded Rs. 25,00,000 compensation to be shared equally, payable by the father and the State, with liberty to recover from erring staff.", "court_quote": "The State machinery failed to discharge its constitutional obligations", "court_quote_para": "para 61", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2026-08-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2026:AHC:165122", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/34334003/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "swarm-verify-cop-up-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-up-hc-2", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0065", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1332", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chandauli Man vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Chandauli Man vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Chandauli", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Saiyadraja, District Chandauli", "court": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chandauli Man vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others", "case_number": "CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 11697 of 2026", "citation": "2026:AHC:188247", "judges": [ "Sandeep Jain" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2025-05-12", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "U.P. Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act", "Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police personnel", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "P.S. Saiyadraja, District Chandauli", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, P.S. Saiyadraja, District Chandauli" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chandauli man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 420000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/188158070/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the police had no power or jurisdiction to seize or confiscate the vehicle in the cow-slaughter case. The High Court held that no permit is required to transport cow and progeny within Uttar Pradesh. The High Court quashed the confiscation order dated 12.01.2026 and the appellate order dated 28.03.2026. The High Court directed return of the vehicle and awarded monthly compensation from seizure plus a lump sum for mental agony and litigation.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the police had no power or jurisdiction to seize or confiscate the vehicle in the cow-slaughter case. The High Court held that no permit is required to transport cow and progeny within Uttar Pradesh. The High Court quashed the confiscation order dated 12.01.2026 and the appellate order dated 28.03.2026. The High Court directed return of the vehicle and awarded monthly compensation from seizure plus a lump sum for mental agony and litigation.", "court_quote": "the police has no power or jurisdiction to seize or confiscate the vehicle in question", "court_quote_para": "para 13-14", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "compensation_inr is null but judgment awards Rs. 25,000/month from 12.05.2025 till release plus Rs. 20,000 lump sum for mental agony; court_quote para field says 'as reported' but quote appears at para 13-14 of judgment (quoting Kaliya precedent)", "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": "2026-09-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2026:AHC:188247", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/188158070/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "swarm-verify-cop-up-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-up-hc-1", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0101", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1391", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Prayagraj Man (Corpus) And Another vs State Of U.P. And 4 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Prayagraj Man (Corpus) And Another vs State Of U.P. And 4 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Prayagraj", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Prayagraj", "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. George Town, District Prayagraj", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "bench": null, "case_title": "Prayagraj Man (Corpus) And Another vs State Of U.P. And 4 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. - 906 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Atul Sreedharan", "Divesh Chandra Samant" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-06-23", "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": [ "Article 21 of the Constitution of India", "Article 226 of the Constitution of India (habeas corpus)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "P.S. George Town, Prayagraj", "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, P.S. George Town, Prayagraj" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "P.S. George Town, Prayagraj", "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": "Investigating Officer, P.S. George Town, Prayagraj" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Prayagraj man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 40000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/197536445/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-police-cannot-detain-innocent-family-member-accused-surrender-552575" ], "summary": "The High Court recorded that police of P.S. George Town, Prayagraj picked up a man from his house in Jaunpur on 23.06.2026 to question him in an attempted-murder case against his brother, who was then absconding, and released him only at about 7:00 p.m. on 26.06.2026. The Investigating Officer told the court he went to the house on the SHO's direction. Call records and CCTV footage corroborated the detention; no CCTV footage for 26.06.2026 was produced. The court held the man was in unlawful custody for at least four days, that he was held to pressure his brother to surrender, and awarded Rs. 40,000 compensation to be recovered from the salaries of those responsible. It directed that its displeasure with the SHO and the Investigating Officer be recorded in their service records.", "summary_verified": "The High Court recorded that police of P.S. George Town, Prayagraj picked up a man from his house in Jaunpur on 23.06.2026 to question him in an attempted-murder case against his brother, who was then absconding, and released him only at about 7:00 p.m. on 26.06.2026. The Investigating Officer told the court he went to the house on the SHO's direction. Call records and CCTV footage corroborated the detention; no CCTV footage for 26.06.2026 was produced. The court held the man was in unlawful custody for at least four days, that he was held to pressure his brother to surrender, and awarded Rs. 40,000 compensation to be recovered from the salaries of those responsible. It directed that its displeasure with the SHO and the Investigating Officer be recorded in their service records.", "court_quote": "The police cannot resort to pressure tactics to compel the actual offender to surrender before it by unlawfully detaining an innocent member of his family who has no connection with the alleged offence.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Checked against the Allahabad High Court order dated 09.09.2026 in HABC No. 906 of 2026 (Indian Kanoon), first reported by LiveLaw on 01.10.2026. The detention period is at para 7, the compensation and recovery at para 9, and the finding and service-record direction at para 10. The officers named in the order are withheld here.", "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": "Court finding", "position_explainer": "A court has made a finding on this allegation.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-09-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court held the petitioner was in unlawful police custody from 23.06.2026 to 26.06.2026, awarded Rs. 40,000 compensation recoverable from the salaries of the personnel responsible, and directed that its displeasure be recorded in the service records of the SHO and the Investigating Officer.", "disposition": "Adverse finding (illegal detention) · Rs. 40,000 compensation · recovery from salaries · service-record entry", "source": "HABC No. 906 of 2026", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-10-05", "scope": "Past-week sweep (26 Sep-5 Oct): order dated 09.09.2026 first reported on 01.10.2026; record written from the order text on Indian Kanoon; quote checked verbatim; officers and the detained man are not named." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-10-05", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/197536445/", "link_checked": "2026-10-05" }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-police-cannot-detain-innocent-family-member-accused-surrender-552575", "link_checked": "2026-10-05" } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "claude-opus-5.5-week-1005" ], "merged_case_id": null, "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0105", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1395", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Deoria Man And 3 Others vs State Of U.P. And 2 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Deoria Man And 3 Others vs State Of U.P. And 2 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Deoria", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Gauri Bazar, District Deoria", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "bench": null, "case_title": "Deoria Man And 3 Others vs State Of U.P. And 2 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. - 506 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Atul Sreedharan", "Divesh Chandra Samant" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-04-13", "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": [ "Article 21 of the Constitution of India", "Section 119(g) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer (since transferred)", "unit": "P.S. Gauri Bazar, Deoria", "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 (since transferred), P.S. Gauri Bazar, Deoria" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Deoria man" }, { "name": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Deoria woman" }, { "name": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Deoria woman" }, { "name": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Deoria woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 4, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 65000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/13242551/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/allahabad-hc-bunch-liars-sho-sp-police-station-cctv-lapses-65k-compensation-illegal-detention-549334" ], "summary": "The High Court recorded that after a murder FIR at P.S. Gauri Bazar, Deoria, police took relatives of a named accused, who were not themselves accused, into custody: a man was held for two days, and two women and a two-and-a-half-year-old girl were held from 13.04.2026 to 23.04.2026 without arrest or production before a Magistrate, and were released a day before the habeas corpus petition was filed. The SHO said the station's CCTV stopped working on 12.04.2026; the Superintendent of Police's own inquiry found him guilty of dereliction for not keeping it functional, and the DVR held only fragments of footage for 12-16 April. The court applied the presumption against the party withholding evidence, held the SHO responsible for the detentions, observed that footage may have been deliberately deleted, and directed the State to pay Rs 20,000 each to the three held for ten days and Rs 5,000 to the man, to be recovered from the salary of those responsible after an enquiry, with its displeasure recorded in the SHO's service book.", "summary_verified": "The High Court recorded that after a murder FIR at P.S. Gauri Bazar, Deoria, police took relatives of a named accused, who were not themselves accused, into custody: a man was held for two days, and two women and a two-and-a-half-year-old girl were held from 13.04.2026 to 23.04.2026 without arrest or production before a Magistrate, and were released a day before the habeas corpus petition was filed. The SHO said the station's CCTV stopped working on 12.04.2026; the Superintendent of Police's own inquiry found him guilty of dereliction for not keeping it functional, and the DVR held only fragments of footage for 12-16 April. The court applied the presumption against the party withholding evidence, held the SHO responsible for the detentions, observed that footage may have been deliberately deleted, and directed the State to pay Rs 20,000 each to the three held for ten days and Rs 5,000 to the man, to be recovered from the salary of those responsible after an enquiry, with its displeasure recorded in the SHO's service book.", "court_quote": "Under the said circumstances, it would not be unreasonable to presume that the period during which the camera feed was not recorded, may also have been physically deleted in order to wipe out the evidence of the proceedings in the Thana during that relevant period of time.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Checked against the Allahabad High Court order dated 09.09.2026 in HABC No. 506 of 2026 (Indian Kanoon). Detention periods at paras 1-4, the SP's inquiry and DVR gaps at paras 9-11, the presumption at paras 15 and 19, and compensation and recovery at para 21. The SHO and the detained family members are not named here; one detainee was a two-and-a-half-year-old child.", "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": "Court finding", "position_explainer": "A court has made a finding on this allegation.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-09-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court held the then SHO responsible for unlawful detentions of up to ten days, awarded Rs 65,000 in all, recoverable from the salary of those responsible after an enquiry, and directed an entry in his service book. The SP's own inquiry had earlier found the SHO guilty of dereliction over the CCTV system.", "disposition": "Adverse finding (illegal detention; CCTV footage presumed deleted) · Rs 65,000 compensation · recovery from salary · service-book entry", "source": "HABC No. 506 of 2026", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-10-05", "scope": "Copwatch expansion sweep: order dated 09.09.2026 was missing from the site; record written from the order text on Indian Kanoon; quote checked verbatim; officer and family members not named." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-10-05", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/13242551/", "link_checked": "2026-10-05" } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "claude-opus-5.5-week-1005" ], "merged_case_id": null, "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0064", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1331", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Prayagraj Man (Corpus) And Another vs State Of U.P. And 2 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Prayagraj Man (Corpus) And Another vs State Of U.P. And 2 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Prayagraj", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj", "court": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "bench": null, "case_title": "Prayagraj Man (Corpus) And Another vs State Of U.P. And 2 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. - 1222 of 2026", "citation": "2026:AHC:196414-DB", "judges": [ "Atul Sreedharan", "Achal Sachdev" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-08-15", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": [ "Sections 318(4), 336(3), 338, 340(2), 351(3) of BNS", "Sections 21 and 22 of the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025", "Section 12 of the Passport Act, 1967" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Inspector / Investigating Officer", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Additional Inspector / Investigating Officer, P.S. Meja, District Prayagraj" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Prayagraj man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/198729602/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the corpus was taken from his shop on 15.08.2026 and produced before the Magistrate only on 19.08.2026 without procedural backing. The High Court held that the detention from 15.08.2026 till production was illegal custody. The High Court ordered release unless wanted in another case and directed the State to pay Rs. 50,000 as compensation for illegal detention. The High Court directed the State to recover the amount from erring personnel after a disciplinary inquiry within three months.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the corpus was taken from his shop on 15.08.2026 and produced before the Magistrate only on 19.08.2026 without procedural backing. The High Court held that the detention from 15.08.2026 till production was illegal custody. The High Court ordered release unless wanted in another case and directed the State to pay Rs. 50,000 as compensation for illegal detention. The High Court directed the State to recover the amount from erring personnel after a disciplinary inquiry within three months.", "court_quote": "petitioner was held in illegal custody from 15.08.2026 till he was produced", "court_quote_para": "para 5", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2026-09-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2026:AHC:196414-DB", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/198729602/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "swarm-verify-cop-up-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-up-hc-0", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0102", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1392", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chitrakoot Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 4 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Chitrakoot Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 4 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Chitrakoot", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Sardhuwa, District Chitrakoot", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chitrakoot Man And Another vs State Of U.P. And 4 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. - 1169 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Atul Sreedharan", "Achal Sachdev" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-07-13", "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": [ "Article 21 of the Constitution of India", "Section 119(g) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer (since suspended)", "unit": "P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot", "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 (since suspended), P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot", "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": "Investigating Officer, P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chitrakoot man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173578843/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-police-station-cctv-safeguards-arrested-interrogation-552464" ], "summary": "The High Court recorded that a sand-mining businessman, accused in a cheating and breach-of-trust FIR arising from what the informant himself called a civil dispute, was brought into P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot at 9:00 a.m. on 13.07.2026, taken out at 10:19 a.m. in the informant's vehicle accompanied by the Investigating Officer, and brought back at 8:24 p.m., while the arrest memo showed arrest at 3:30 p.m. and the general diary showed him in the lock-up from 6:41 p.m. Footage from the three cameras inside the police station was not produced. The court rejected the explanation for the missing footage as false and mischievous, held the feeds were deliberately deleted or not saved, found the grounds of arrest woefully inadequate, set aside the arrest, and awarded Rs. 10,000 for 24 hours' illegal detention, recoverable from the person found responsible after inquiry. It observed that the police appeared to have acted as recovery agents for the complainant, and laid down that police-station CCTV must run 24/7 with general-diary entries and release receipts whenever it fails.", "summary_verified": "The High Court recorded that a sand-mining businessman, accused in a cheating and breach-of-trust FIR arising from what the informant himself called a civil dispute, was brought into P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot at 9:00 a.m. on 13.07.2026, taken out at 10:19 a.m. in the informant's vehicle accompanied by the Investigating Officer, and brought back at 8:24 p.m., while the arrest memo showed arrest at 3:30 p.m. and the general diary showed him in the lock-up from 6:41 p.m. Footage from the three cameras inside the police station was not produced. The court rejected the explanation for the missing footage as false and mischievous, held the feeds were deliberately deleted or not saved, found the grounds of arrest woefully inadequate, set aside the arrest, and awarded Rs. 10,000 for 24 hours' illegal detention, recoverable from the person found responsible after inquiry. It observed that the police appeared to have acted as recovery agents for the complainant, and laid down that police-station CCTV must run 24/7 with general-diary entries and release receipts whenever it fails.", "court_quote": "the feeds within the police Thana were deliberately either deleted or deliberately not saved in the DVR as there is no argument put forth with regard to malfunction of any CCTV cameras", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Checked against the Allahabad High Court order dated 23.09.2026 in HABC No. 1169 of 2026 (Indian Kanoon), reported by LiveLaw on 30.09.2026. CCTV timings at paras 11 and 15-17, the finding on deleted feeds at paras 13-15, grounds of arrest at para 19, CCTV directions at paras 20-21, and release and compensation at paras 24-25. The underlying cheating case is not assessed by the court. Officers and the petitioner are not named here.", "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": "Court finding", "position_explainer": "A court has made a finding on this allegation.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-09-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Judicature at Allahabad", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court set aside the arrest for inadequate grounds, ordered release, awarded Rs. 10,000 for 24 hours' illegal detention recoverable after inquiry, and directed that police-station CCTV run 24/7 with general-diary safeguards when it fails.", "disposition": "Adverse finding (illegal detention, deliberate loss of CCTV footage) · arrest set aside · Rs. 10,000 compensation · CCTV directions", "source": "HABC No. 1169 of 2026", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-10-05", "scope": "Past-week sweep (26 Sep-5 Oct): order dated 23.09.2026 reported on 30.09.2026; record written from the order text on Indian Kanoon; quote checked verbatim; officers and the petitioner are not named." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-10-05", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173578843/", "link_checked": "2026-10-05" }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-hc-police-station-cctv-safeguards-arrested-interrogation-552464", "link_checked": "2026-10-05" } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "claude-opus-5.5-week-1005" ], "merged_case_id": null, "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }