{ "state": "West Bengal", "slug": "west-bengal", "count": 34, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/west-bengal", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1885-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0746", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "[name withheld] And Ors. vs Queen-Empress", "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] And Ors. vs Queen-Empress", "state": "West Bengal", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "[name withheld] And Ors. vs Queen-Empress", "case_number": null, "citation": "(1885) ILR 11 Cal 530", "judges": [ "Prinsep" ], "judgment_date": "1885-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1885, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 330" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": null, "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" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": null, "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" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": null, "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" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/834900/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Police arrested several persons on suspicion of murdering Mussamut Dhuri; two constables openly used violence on the prisoners and illegally detained them beyond the lawful period to obtain confessions which proved false, while Head Constable, in charge of the investigation, remained in their constant company. The Sessions Judge convicted all three under Section 330 IPC. The High Court upheld all convictions, holding [name withheld] an accomplice in the assaults and illegal detention, and, acting in revision, enhanced his sentence from four months simple to six months rigorous imprisonment while dismissing the constables' appeals. District and victim identities are not stated in the report (Bengal Presidency).", "summary_verified": "Police arrested several persons on suspicion of murdering Mussamut Dhuri; two constables openly used violence on the prisoners and illegally detained them beyond the lawful period to obtain confessions which proved false, while Head Constable, in charge of the investigation, remained in their constant company. The Sessions Judge convicted all three under Section 330 IPC. The High Court upheld all convictions, holding [name withheld] an accomplice in the assaults and illegal detention, and, acting in revision, enhanced his sentence from four months simple to six months rigorous imprisonment while dismissing the constables' appeals. District and victim identities are not stated in the report (Bengal Presidency).", "court_quote": "he was not only cognizant of those assaults, but he was an accomplice in them, and in the illegal detention as the means by which he intended to obtain false confessions.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "s.330 convictions of head constable and 2 constables upheld; head constable's term enhanced to 6 months 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 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 Calcutta High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1885) ILR 11 Cal 530", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1885-04-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(1885) ILR 11 Cal 530", "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_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/834900/", "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-50" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP6-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1954-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1150", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shalimar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Shalimar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Howrah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shalimar", "police_station_or_unit": "Shalimar Government Railway Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shalimar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule challenging dismissal order dated 21-8-1952", "citation": "AIR 1955 Cal 183", "judges": [ "Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "1954-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1954, "incident_date": "1948-01-01", "incident_year": 1948, "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", "Police Act 1861 s.35", "Police Act 1861 s.42", "Constitution Art. 311", "Constitution Art. 320(3)(c)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Shalimar Government Railway Police Station, Howrah", "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, Shalimar Government Railway Police Station, Howrah" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166907/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095edde4b01497112c8d39" ], "summary": "Sub-Inspector, officer-in-charge of Shalimar GRPS from December 1948, faced seven charges of misappropriation in malkhana goods sales during 1948-1950 following anonymous complaints, CID investigation and a DSP enquiry, and was dismissed on 21 August 1952. The court held that departmental findings honestly and impartially reached on circumstantial evidence were unexceptionable. It found no violation of Articles 311 or 320(3)(c), held the section 42 Police Act limitation inapplicable to departmental enquiries, and held the enquiry officer's dual role did not vitiate the findings. The application failed, the Rule was discharged and all interim orders vacated. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector, officer-in-charge of Shalimar GRPS from December 1948, faced seven charges of misappropriation in malkhana goods sales during 1948-1950 following anonymous complaints, CID investigation and a DSP enquiry, and was dismissed on 21 August 1952. The court held that departmental findings honestly and impartially reached on circumstantial evidence were unexceptionable. It found no violation of Articles 311 or 320(3)(c), held the section 42 Police Act limitation inapplicable to departmental enquiries, and held the enquiry officer's dual role did not vitiate the findings. The application failed, the Rule was discharged and all interim orders vacated.", "court_quote": "All that has to be seen is as to whether he had honestly and impartially come to a conclusion which a reasonable man could arrive at. Judged by this test I find no error on the face of his findings.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC discharged the Rule; dismissal of Shalimar GRPS officer-in-charge for malkhana misappropriation (1948-1950) 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": "1954-02-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1955 Cal 183", "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/1166907/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095edde4b01497112c8d39", "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-104" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1955-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0946", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranaghat Police Constable vs The State", "display_title_redacted": "Ranaghat Police Constable vs The State", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Nadia", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranaghat", "police_station_or_unit": "Ranaghat Government Railway Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranaghat Police Constable vs The State", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 1956 Cal 116", "judges": [ "Debabrata Mookerjee" ], "judgment_date": "1955-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1955, "incident_date": "1954-04-25", "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 161" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Ranaghat Government Railway Police Station", "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, Ranaghat Government Railway Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ranaghat 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/90300/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095ee0e4b01497112c8dde" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 25 April 1954 constable, on duty on Ranaghat station platform, accused traveller a Ranaghat man of blackmarketing two mats, marched him toward the GRP station, demanded money and took his purse containing Rs. 5. A Ranaghat man immediately complained to nearby witnesses, identified the constable on the platform, and lodged the FIR at the GRP station. The Special Court, Nadia convicted the constable under Section 161 IPC and fined him Rs. 100. The court believed the eyewitnesses, held the ingredients of Section 161 proved, rejected the extortion-only argument and the challenge to the Special Court trial, affirmed the conviction and retained the fine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 25 April 1954 constable, on duty on Ranaghat station platform, accused traveller a Ranaghat man of blackmarketing two mats, marched him toward the GRP station, demanded money and took his purse containing Rs. 5. A Ranaghat man immediately complained to nearby witnesses, identified the constable on the platform, and lodged the FIR at the GRP station. The Special Court, Nadia convicted the constable under Section 161 IPC and fined him Rs. 100. The court believed the eyewitnesses, held the ingredients of Section 161 proved, rejected the extortion-only argument and the challenge to the Special Court trial, affirmed the conviction and retained the fine.", "court_quote": "Taking the entire evidence as a whole I think there is no ground for interference with the conviction of the appellant.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "GRP constable's s.161 bribery conviction affirmed; Rs.5 gratification proved by eyewitnesses.", "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 Calcutta High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1956 Cal 116", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1955-12-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1956 Cal 116", "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/90300/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095ee0e4b01497112c8dde", "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-58" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-13-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1964-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1149", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Calcutta Police Constable v. Commissioner of Police and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Calcutta Police Constable v. Commissioner of Police and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": "Calcutta", "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Calcutta Police", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Calcutta Police Constable v. Commissioner of Police and Others", "case_number": "Matter No. 463 of 1963", "citation": "AIR 1967 Cal 381", "judges": [ "Banerjee" ], "judgment_date": "1964-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1964, "incident_date": "1962-03-02", "incident_year": 1962, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Calcutta Police Act 1898 s.9-B(2)", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Calcutta 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, Calcutta Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kolkata 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1218131/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/862955/ram-subhak-ojha-vs-commissioner-police" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Constable was charged with wrongfully detaining a bullion merchant's guard on 2 March 1962, seizing a 234-tola gold bar without authority and without reporting it, and misappropriating 134 tolas of it. The departmental enquiry found the detention/seizure and misappropriation charges proved, and the Deputy Commissioner dismissed him on 14 March 1963, affirmed by the Commissioner of Police in appeal. The court rejected challenges based on the dismissing authority's competence under section 9-B(2) of the Calcutta Police Act, natural justice, identity of the guard, and reliance on admissions. It held there was no substance in the Rule and discharged it, upholding the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable was charged with wrongfully detaining a bullion merchant's guard on 2 March 1962, seizing a 234-tola gold bar without authority and without reporting it, and misappropriating 134 tolas of it. The departmental enquiry found the detention/seizure and misappropriation charges proved, and the Deputy Commissioner dismissed him on 14 March 1963, affirmed by the Commissioner of Police in appeal. The court rejected challenges based on the dismissing authority's competence under section 9-B(2) of the Calcutta Police Act, natural justice, identity of the guard, and reliance on admissions. It held there was no substance in the Rule and discharged it, upholding the dismissal.", "court_quote": "Further apart from the admission, evidence was led to prove the charges against the petitioner. That evidence appealed to the disciplinary authority. Therefore, even though the admission, said to have been made by the petitioner, was treated as supporting the evidence against the petitioner that does not vitiate the proceeding.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC discharged the Rule; dismissal of Calcutta Police constable for wrongful detention, unauthorised gold seizure and misappropriation 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": "1964-12-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1967 Cal 381", "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/1218131/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/862955/ram-subhak-ojha-vs-commissioner-police", "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-104" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1969-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1151", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "West Bengal Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "West Bengal Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "South 24 Parganas", "district_at_time": "24 Parganas", "city_town": "Alipore", "police_station_or_unit": "West Bengal Police, 24 Parganas (District Enforcement)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "West Bengal Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 1305(W) of 1965", "citation": "AIR 1970 Cal 384", "judges": [ "D. Basu" ], "judgment_date": "1969-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1969, "incident_date": "1960-01-01", "incident_year": 1960, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act 1861 s.29", "Constitution Art. 311(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "West Bengal Police, 24 Parganas", "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, West Bengal Police, 24 Parganas" } ], "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/56886/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/createfile/859505/tp:pd" ], "summary": "Sub-Inspector, District Enforcement Officer of 24 Parganas, refused to comply with a December 1959 transfer order to Nadia, was convicted under section 29 of the Police Act by the Alipore Magistrate on 25 November 1961 (fine Rs 100), and his appeal and revision failed. The SP 24 Parganas recommended dismissal, effected on 2 July 1964 with DIG approval. The court held a section 29 conviction is a conviction on a criminal charge under proviso (a) to Article 311(2), so no inquiry was needed before dismissal. The Rule was made absolute only to the extent of granting full emoluments for the pre-dismissal period 2 January 1960 to 2 July 1964. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector, District Enforcement Officer of 24 Parganas, refused to comply with a December 1959 transfer order to Nadia, was convicted under section 29 of the Police Act by the Alipore Magistrate on 25 November 1961 (fine Rs 100), and his appeal and revision failed. The SP 24 Parganas recommended dismissal, effected on 2 July 1964 with DIG approval. The court held a section 29 conviction is a conviction on a criminal charge under proviso (a) to Article 311(2), so no inquiry was needed before dismissal. The Rule was made absolute only to the extent of granting full emoluments for the pre-dismissal period 2 January 1960 to 2 July 1964.", "court_quote": "Consequently, the instant case would fall under the purview of Proviso (a) to Article 311(2) of the Constitution.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC upheld dismissal founded on s.29 Police Act conviction via Art 311(2)(a); relief limited to back emoluments for 2 Jan 1960-2 Jul 1964.", "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": "1969-05-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1970 Cal 384", "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/56886/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/createfile/859505/tp:pd", "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-104" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1990-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0459", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State v. Howrah Police Inspector", "display_title_redacted": "The State v. Howrah Police Inspector", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Howrah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Howrah", "police_station_or_unit": "Golabari PS", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State v. Howrah Police Inspector", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal u/s 378(1) CrPC with Criminal Revision (vs Addl. Sessions Judge, 3rd Court, Howrah order dated 20.08.1985)", "citation": "1990 Cri LJ 2093", "judges": [ "Ajit K. Sengupta" ], "judgment_date": "1990-05-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1990, "incident_date": "1980-02-26", "incident_year": 1980, "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 304 Part II/34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Golabari PS, Howrah", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector, Golabari PS, Howrah" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Golabari PS, Howrah", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Golabari PS, Howrah" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Golabari PS, Howrah", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Golabari PS, Howrah" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Howrah man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1676166/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1149295/" ], "summary": "The Calcutta High Court allowed the State appeal and complainant revision against the 1985 acquittals and convicted an Inspector, Sub-Inspector and Constable of Golabari PS for beating railway employee a Howrah man to death in custody on 26 February 1980. The Court held the assault was made to extort a confession, rejecting the alibi and fall-from-roof defence on eyewitness and medical evidence of ruptured kidney and liver. It sentenced two officers to 7 years RI and one to 5 years RI with fines payable to the complainant, affirming the fourth accused's acquittal. The judgment records the torture as an illegal extra-judicial execution in the lock-up. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court allowed the State appeal and complainant revision against the 1985 acquittals and convicted an Inspector, Sub-Inspector and Constable of Golabari PS for beating railway employee a Howrah man to death in custody on 26 February 1980. The Court held the assault was made to extort a confession, rejecting the alibi and fall-from-roof defence on eyewitness and medical evidence of ruptured kidney and liver. It sentenced two officers to 7 years RI and one to 5 years RI with fines payable to the complainant, affirming the fourth accused's acquittal. The judgment records the torture as an illegal extra-judicial execution in the lock-up.", "court_quote": "This case demonstrates the extent of inhuman torture and degrading treatment meted to a prisoner in police lock-up resulting in his illegal or extra-judicial execution.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC set aside acquittals and convicted 3 Golabari PS policemen u/s 304-II/34.", "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": "1990-05-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "1990 Cri LJ 2093", "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/1676166/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1149295/", "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-032", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1996-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1148", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Cooch Behar Police Constable v. State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Cooch Behar Police Constable v. State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Cooch Behar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Cooch Behar", "police_station_or_unit": "DAP, Cooch Behar", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Cooch Behar Police Constable v. State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "Appeal No. 1136 of 1990 (arising from C.R. No. 3878(W) of 1983)", "citation": "(1998) 1 DMC 450", "judges": [ "Satyabrata Sinha", "Satya Narayan Chakraborty" ], "judgment_date": "1996-07-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1980-01-01", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 494", "WB Government Servants Conduct Rules 1959 r.30", "WB Government Services (Duties, Rights and Obligations) Rules 1980 r.5(4)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "DAP, Cooch Behar", "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, DAP, Cooch Behar" } ], "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/1820615/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095fcfe4b01497112cb31b" ], "summary": "Constable of DAP Cooch Behar was charge-sheeted on 22 April 1980 for contracting a second marriage during his first wife's lifetime, and dismissed from service on 30 April 1981. In his written defence he stated he had remarried with his first wife's written consent, which the court treated as an admission of the charge. The Division Bench held the admitted bigamy was both an offence under section 494 IPC and misconduct, that a fact admitted need not be proved, and that wrong mentioning of the conduct rule caused no prejudice. It dismissed the appeal against the Single Judge's rejection of his writ, leaving the dismissal intact.", "summary_verified": "Constable of DAP Cooch Behar was charge-sheeted on 22 April 1980 for contracting a second marriage during his first wife's lifetime, and dismissed from service on 30 April 1981. In his written defence he stated he had remarried with his first wife's written consent, which the court treated as an admission of the charge. The Division Bench held the admitted bigamy was both an offence under section 494 IPC and misconduct, that a fact admitted need not be proved, and that wrong mentioning of the conduct rule caused no prejudice. It dismissed the appeal against the Single Judge's rejection of his writ, leaving the dismissal intact.", "court_quote": "As noticed hereinbefore, the appellant in his written statement categorically admitted the misconduct committed by him. His only defence was that he married Smt. Sefali De Chowdhury with the written consent of his first wife. It is not in dispute that in terms of the provision of Section 494 of IPC, Bigamy is a penal offence as well as in terms of the provision of the W.B. Government Servant Conduct Rules no employee is permitted to commit misconduct or a penal offence with the consent of any other person.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC Division Bench dismissed the constable's appeal; dismissal for admitted bigamy (IPC 494 offence and conduct-rule misconduct) 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": "1996-07-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(1998) 1 DMC 450", "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/1820615/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095fcfe4b01497112cb31b", "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-104" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0428", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Panskura Man vs State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Panskura Man vs State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Purba Medinipur", "district_at_time": "Midnapore", "city_town": "Panskura", "police_station_or_unit": "Panskura Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Panskura Man vs State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "C.C. No. 18207 (W) of 1995", "citation": "1997 Cri LJ 1762", "judges": [ "Bhagabati Prosad Banerjee", "Asok Kumar Chakravarty" ], "judgment_date": "1997-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1994-10-17", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (then Officer-in-Charge)", "unit": "Panskura Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.12, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector (then Officer-in-Charge), Panskura Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Panskura Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.09, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Panskura Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Panskura 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1910337/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/853371/lawyers-forum-for-human-rights-vs-state-of-west-bengal-and/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. A Panskura man, arrested with four others on 8 October 1994, was kept in the Panskura police lock-up without production before a Magistrate, mercilessly tortured, and died on 17 October 1994; police claimed he jumped from a running jeep. On a letter-petition by the Lawyers' Forum for Human Rights, a Division Bench rejected the police story, noting the post-mortem showed death from subdural haemorrhage caused by a hard blunt substance and that the police affidavits were full of contradictions. The court allowed the writ, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh divided equally between both widows within two months, and ordered every police station in the State to maintain lock-up and diet registers. Departmental proceedings against SI and ASI were already pending.", "summary_verified": "A Panskura man, arrested with four others on 8 October 1994, was kept in the Panskura police lock-up without production before a Magistrate, mercilessly tortured, and died on 17 October 1994; police claimed he jumped from a running jeep. On a letter-petition by the Lawyers' Forum for Human Rights, a Division Bench rejected the police story, noting the post-mortem showed death from subdural haemorrhage caused by a hard blunt substance and that the police affidavits were full of contradictions. The court allowed the writ, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh divided equally between both widows within two months, and ordered every police station in the State to maintain lock-up and diet registers. Departmental proceedings against SI and ASI were already pending.", "court_quote": "We have no hesitation in holding that this Court was sought to be misled from the very beginning by filing affidavits which could not be relied on as the same were full of contradictions. It is very unfortunate that the post-mortem report which clearly suggested that the death was due to hitting the head with some hard substance.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 1 lakh to two widows for custodial-death beating; statewide registers 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": "1997-01-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1997 Cri LJ 1762", "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/1910337/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/853371/lawyers-forum-for-human-rights-vs-state-of-west-bengal-and/", "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": "WESTBE-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1112", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "West Bengal Man vs State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "West Bengal Man vs State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "West Bengal Man vs State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 467 of 2000 (arising out of SLP (C) No. 1571 of 1999)", "citation": "(2000) 9 SCC 404; JT 2000 (4) SC 409", "judges": [ "G. B. Pattanaik", "R. C. Lahoti" ], "judgment_date": "2000-01-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "West Bengal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 70000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1738694/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/675314/amitadyuti-kumar-vs-state-w-b-ors" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court enhanced compensation for the custodial death of a West Bengal man in West Bengal from Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 70,000. The Court, hearing only the quantum question on limited notice, accepted the Calcutta High Court's custodial-death findings and held Rs. 20,000 too meagre for the widow's sustenance. It directed the State to pay the balance Rs. 50,000 to the widow within eight weeks, leaving the rest of the High Court's directions unaltered. No officer is named and no district or station is stated in the SC order, which records no independent liability reasoning. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court enhanced compensation for the custodial death of a West Bengal man in West Bengal from Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 70,000. The Court, hearing only the quantum question on limited notice, accepted the Calcutta High Court's custodial-death findings and held Rs. 20,000 too meagre for the widow's sustenance. It directed the State to pay the balance Rs. 50,000 to the widow within eight weeks, leaving the rest of the High Court's directions unaltered. No officer is named and no district or station is stated in the SC order, which records no independent liability reasoning.", "court_quote": "The counsel for the State of West Bengal on the other hand contends that the Human Rights Commission of the State has considered the matter from all angles including the profession which was being pursued by the deceased before his custodial death and therefore the compensation to the tune of Rs. 20,000/- is adequate. Having considered the rival submissions and on the findings arrived at by the High Court of Calcutta we think it appropriate to enhance the compensation to Rs. 70,000/-.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC accepted HC custodial-death findings and enhanced compensation Rs.20,000 to Rs.70,000 against the State; officers/district unstated.", "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": "2000-01-21", "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 70,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2000) 9 SCC 404; JT 2000 (4) SC 409", "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/1738694/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/675314/amitadyuti-kumar-vs-state-w-b-ors", "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-99" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-128-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1154", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Barrackpore Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (retired)", "display_title_redacted": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Barrackpore Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (retired)", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "North 24 Parganas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barrackpore", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Training College, Barrackpore (CID, West Bengal)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Barrackpore Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (retired)", "case_number": "W.P.S.T. No. 486 of 2000", "citation": "2001 (3) CHN 740; 106 CWN 99; (2001) 09 CAL CK 0005", "judges": [ "Tarun Chatterjee", "Hrishikesh Banerji" ], "judgment_date": "2001-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1980-10-09", "incident_year": 1980, "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": [ "WB Services (DCRB) Rules 1971 r.10(1)", "WB Government Servants Conduct Rules 1959 rr.3-4" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (retired)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Criminal Investigation Department, West Bengal", "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 (retired), Criminal Investigation Department, West Bengal" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barrackpore man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/839487/state-of-west-bengal-and-others-appellant-hash-gobinda-chandra-mukherjee-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=501002135000&title=state-of-west-bengal-and-ors-vs-gobinda-chandra-mukherjee", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e120e3607dba3896618f42" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. While Chief Law Instructor at the Police Training College, Barrackpore, DySP [name withheld] demanded Rs. 6,000 from Cadet SI on 9 October 1980 on the false plea of placating the DIG (Training) and accepted it on 13 October 1980, besides attempting a further Rs. 4,000. A Vigilance Commission enquiry found him guilty of both charges, and the Governor permanently withheld 50% of his pension with effect from 1 March 1982. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the cut, but the Calcutta High Court held Rule 10 of the WBS (DCRB) Rules, 1971 permits post-retirement pension action and set aside the Tribunal's order. The Governor's pension-withholding order was affirmed on 21 September 2001. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "While Chief Law Instructor at the Police Training College, Barrackpore, DySP [name withheld] demanded Rs. 6,000 from Cadet SI on 9 October 1980 on the false plea of placating the DIG (Training) and accepted it on 13 October 1980, besides attempting a further Rs. 4,000. A Vigilance Commission enquiry found him guilty of both charges, and the Governor permanently withheld 50% of his pension with effect from 1 March 1982. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the cut, but the Calcutta High Court held Rule 10 of the WBS (DCRB) Rules, 1971 permits post-retirement pension action and set aside the Tribunal's order. The Governor's pension-withholding order was affirmed on 21 September 2001.", "court_quote": "For the reasons aforesaid the impugned order of Tribunal is set aside. The writ application filed before us stands allowed. The order of the Governor withholding pension in the manner indicated above is hereby affirmed.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; Governor's 50% pension cut for DySP's bribery restored.", "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": "2001-09-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2001 (3) CHN 740; 106 CWN 99; (2001) 09 CAL CK 0005", "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/839487/state-of-west-bengal-and-others-appellant-hash-gobinda-chandra-mukherjee-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=501002135000&title=state-of-west-bengal-and-ors-vs-gobinda-chandra-mukherjee", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e120e3607dba3896618f42", "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-105" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-29-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0747", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Phool Bagan Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2002) 3 CALLT 618", "judges": [ "P.K. Biswas", "S.K. Banerjee" ], "judgment_date": "2002-05-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1992-09-23", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 376", "IPC 366" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Special Constable", "unit": "Phool Bagan Police Station", "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": "Special Constable, Phool Bagan Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 27, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Kolkata woman, age 27", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 27, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "the complainant" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/536057/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 2 a.m. on 23 September 1992, Special Constable of Phool Bagan Police Station, in plain clothes, twice came to pavement-dweller the complainant's jhupri on CIT Road, then forcibly took her in a police vehicle to the station, confined her in a mezzanine barrack room and raped her until about 4:40 a.m. The trial court sentenced him to life under Section 376 IPC with concurrent six years RI under Section 366 IPC. The Division Bench dismissed his appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, while acquitting the two co-appellants under Section 366 IPC for want of proof of participation. Trial reference: Sessions Trial No.1(1) of 1993, Phool Bagan P.S. Case No.108 dated 23.09.1992. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Around 2 a.m. on 23 September 1992, Special Constable of Phool Bagan Police Station, in plain clothes, twice came to pavement-dweller Nehar Banu's jhupri on CIT Road, then forcibly took her in a police vehicle to the station, confined her in a mezzanine barrack room and raped her until about 4:40 a.m. The trial court sentenced him to life under Section 376 IPC with concurrent six years RI under Section 366 IPC. The Division Bench dismissed his appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, while acquitting the two co-appellants under Section 366 IPC for want of proof of participation. Trial reference: Sessions Trial No.1(1) of 1993, Phool Bagan P.S. Case No.108 dated 23.09.1992.", "court_quote": "The appeal preferred by the convict/appellant [name withheld] is dismissed on contest and the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned trial Judge, so far as it relates to convict/appellant [name withheld] is, hereby, affirmed.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Life term u/s 376 (+6y u/s 366) of Special Constable for barrack rape affirmed; co-accused acquitted.", "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 Calcutta High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2002) 3 CALLT 618", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2002-05-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2002) 3 CALLT 618", "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/536057/", "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-50" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP6-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0748", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dum Dum Man vs State of West Bengal And Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Dum Dum Man vs State of West Bengal And Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "North 24 Parganas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dum Dum", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dum Dum Man vs State of West Bengal And Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2005) 1 CALLT 261", "judges": [ "Asok Kumar Ganguly", "Tapan Kumar Dutt" ], "judgment_date": "2004-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": "2002-07-05", "incident_year": 2002, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Dum Dum 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/201974/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. At about 1 a.m. on the night of 4-5 July 2002, a 15-20 member police party dragged Central Excise Inspector from his Dum Dum home and returned him only at 11 a.m.; he later died by suicide, which his widow linked to the arrest and interrogation. The Division Bench held the high-handedness clearly established, a Dum Dum man under arrest throughout, and the D.K. Basu guidelines, having the force of law, admittedly not followed at all, invading the family's Article 21 privacy. Though no compensation was prayed for, the Court moulded relief and directed Rs.1 lakh within a fortnight as a deterrent, preserving the widow's right to sue the wrongdoers. Individual officers were not identified in the order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "At about 1 a.m. on the night of 4-5 July 2002, a 15-20 member police party dragged Central Excise Inspector from his Dum Dum home and returned him only at 11 a.m.; he later died by suicide, which his widow linked to the arrest and interrogation. The Division Bench held the high-handedness clearly established, a Dum Dum man under arrest throughout, and the D.K. Basu guidelines, having the force of law, admittedly not followed at all, invading the family's Article 21 privacy. Though no compensation was prayed for, the Court moulded relief and directed Rs.1 lakh within a fortnight as a deterrent, preserving the widow's right to sue the wrongdoers. Individual officers were not identified in the order.", "court_quote": "high-handedness of the police arresting late a Dum Dum man is clearly established in the facts of this case.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Midnight-arrest high-handedness established; D.K. Basu wholly violated; Rs.1L deterrent compensation to widow.", "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": "2004-08-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2005) 1 CALLT 261", "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/201974/", "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-50" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP6-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0420", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Howrah Man vs Secretary, Department of Home & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Howrah Man vs Secretary, Department of Home & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Howrah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Howrah", "police_station_or_unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Howrah Man vs Secretary, Department of Home & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2007) 1 CALLT 589 (HC); 2007 (1) CHN 351", "judges": [ "Bhaskar Bhattacharya", "Prabuddh Sankar Banerjee" ], "judgment_date": "2006-11-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1980-02-26", "incident_year": 1980, "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", "IPC 34", "Constitution of India Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "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, Golabari Police Station, Howrah" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "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, Golabari Police Station, Howrah" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "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, Golabari Police Station, Howrah" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Howrah 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/1149295/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56096051e4b01497112cc667", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/882823/padma-rani-thakur-vs-secretary-department" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. The appellant's son, a railway employee in his twenties, was arrested on 26 February 1980 and beaten to death at Golabari police station, Howrah; police refused to register the family's complaint, forcing the father to approach the SDJM. The Sessions Court acquitted all accused policemen, but a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court reversed the acquittal in 1990 and convicted three policemen under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC, a finding the Supreme Court affirmed while unifying the sentences at five years' rigorous imprisonment each. After the victim's father was murdered at the instance of the convicted policemen, the victim's mother sought compensation. The Division Bench held the State vicariously liable for the custodial death, rejected the delay objection, and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The appellant's son, a railway employee in his twenties, was arrested on 26 February 1980 and beaten to death at Golabari police station, Howrah; police refused to register the family's complaint, forcing the father to approach the SDJM. The Sessions Court acquitted all accused policemen, but a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court reversed the acquittal in 1990 and convicted three policemen under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC, a finding the Supreme Court affirmed while unifying the sentences at five years' rigorous imprisonment each. After the victim's father was murdered at the instance of the convicted policemen, the victim's mother sought compensation. The Division Bench held the State vicariously liable for the custodial death, rejected the delay objection, and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs.", "court_quote": "ends of justice will be met if we direct the State Government to pay a lump sum of Rs. 5 lakh to the appellant in addition to the fines realised from the convicted persons", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC Division Bench awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for 1980 custodial death at Golabari PS after convictions were affirmed by SC.", "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": "2006-11-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 1 CALLT 589 (HC); 2007 (1) CHN 351", "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/1149295/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56096051e4b01497112cc667", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/882823/padma-rani-thakur-vs-secretary-department", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0425", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Nandigram Man & Ors vs State of West Bengal & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Nandigram Man & Ors vs State of West Bengal & Ors", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Purba Medinipur", "district_at_time": "Purba Medinipur", "city_town": "Nandigram", "police_station_or_unit": "Nandigram Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Nandigram Man & Ors vs State of West Bengal & Ors", "case_number": "W.P. No. 8596(W) of 2007", "citation": "2007 (4) CHN 842, 2007 SCC OnLine Cal 672", "judges": [ "S.S. Nijjar", "Pinaki Chandra Ghose" ], "judgment_date": "2007-11-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2007-03-14", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Protest policing", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": true, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 14", "Constitution of India Art. 19", "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "Police Act 1861", "Police Regulations Bengal 1943 Regulation 153", "Police Regulations Bengal 1943 Regulation 154", "Police Regulations Bengal 1943 Regulation 155", "CrPC s.144" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Nandigram woman", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Nandigram woman", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nandigram man", "name": null }, { "age": 35, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Nandigram woman, age 35", "name": null }, { "age": 27, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Nandigram woman, age 27", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Nandigram woman", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": 35, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": 27, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 176, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 23800000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1186017/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/asa200012008eng.pdf" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 14 March 2007, West Bengal Police opened prolonged, indiscriminate gunfire on villagers protesting land acquisition in Nandigram, killing 14 persons, injuring 162, and sexually assaulting several women. Acting on writ petitions and suo motu proceedings, the Calcutta High Court held the police firing wholly unconstitutional, unjustified under the CrPC, Police Act, 1861, or Police Regulations Bengal, 1943, and struck down Regulation 155(b) as unconstitutional. Rejecting the State's plea of sovereign immunity, the High Court ordered the State of West Bengal to pay immediate compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased, not less than Rs. 1 lakh to each injured person, and Rs. 2 lakh to each identified rape victim. The Court also ordered the CBI to conduct an independent investigation and initiate criminal proceedings against responsible officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 14 March 2007, West Bengal Police opened prolonged, indiscriminate gunfire on villagers protesting land acquisition in Nandigram, killing 14 persons, injuring 162, and sexually assaulting several women. Acting on writ petitions and suo motu proceedings, the Calcutta High Court held the police firing wholly unconstitutional, unjustified under the CrPC, Police Act, 1861, or Police Regulations Bengal, 1943, and struck down Regulation 155(b) as unconstitutional. Rejecting the State's plea of sovereign immunity, the High Court ordered the State of West Bengal to pay immediate compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased, not less than Rs. 1 lakh to each injured person, and Rs. 2 lakh to each identified rape victim. The Court also ordered the CBI to conduct an independent investigation and initiate criminal proceedings against responsible officials.", "court_quote": "The action of the police department to open fire at Nandigram on 14.03.2007 was wholly unconstitutional and cannot be justified under any provision of the law.", "court_quote_para": "140", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC held Nandigram police firing wholly unconstitutional and illegal, awarding compensation to families of deceased, injured, and rape victims.", "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": "Protest policing", "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": "2007-11-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 23,800,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2007 (4) CHN 842, 2007 SCC OnLine Cal 672", "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/1186017/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/asa200012008eng.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-14" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0947", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Man v. The State of West Bengal & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Man v. The State of West Bengal & Anr.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Narcotics Control Bureau, Calcutta", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Man v. The State of West Bengal & Anr.", "case_number": "C.R.A. No. 628 of 2005", "citation": "(2008) 3 CALLT 345", "judges": [ "Girish Chandra Gupta", "Kishore Kumar Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2008-05-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1999-07-19", "incident_year": 1999, "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": [ "NDPS Act s.21", "NDPS Act s.29", "NDPS Act s.69", "CrPC s.482" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer (P.W.4)", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Narcotics Control Bureau, Calcutta", "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": "Officer (P.W.4), Narcotics Control Bureau, Calcutta" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent (P.W.7)", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Narcotics Control Bureau, Calcutta", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent (P.W.7), Narcotics Control Bureau, Calcutta" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Kolkata man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/893167/md-salim-akthar-vs-the-state-of-west-bengal-and-another/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 19 July 1999 NCB officers intercepted a Kolkata man and Debashish Dutta at Central Restaurant, B.B. Ganguly Street, Calcutta; 570 grams of heroin was recovered from Dutta and nothing from a Kolkata man, though the arrest memo falsely showed recovery from him. The trial court convicted both men under Sections 21/29 NDPS Act with 10 years RI each, and a Kolkata man spent over 9 years in jail. The court held a Kolkata man was arrested groundlessly and coerced into signing a confessional statement drafted by P.W.4, that the officers acted otherwise than in good faith so Section 69 NDPS gave no protection, and that he was a victim of unlawful arrest and detention. Allowing the appeal, the court set aside the conviction and directed Rs. 1,00,000 token compensation within twelve weeks under its inherent powers, relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Shakila Abdul Gafar Khan. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 19 July 1999 NCB officers intercepted a Kolkata man and Debashish Dutta at Central Restaurant, B.B. Ganguly Street, Calcutta; 570 grams of heroin was recovered from Dutta and nothing from a Kolkata man, though the arrest memo falsely showed recovery from him. The trial court convicted both men under Sections 21/29 NDPS Act with 10 years RI each, and a Kolkata man spent over 9 years in jail. The court held a Kolkata man was arrested groundlessly and coerced into signing a confessional statement drafted by P.W.4, that the officers acted otherwise than in good faith so Section 69 NDPS gave no protection, and that he was a victim of unlawful arrest and detention. Allowing the appeal, the court set aside the conviction and directed Rs. 1,00,000 token compensation within twelve weeks under its inherent powers, relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Shakila Abdul Gafar Khan.", "court_quote": "The appellant in this case was arrested groundlessly by the officers of NCB; the officers in further abuse of their power coerced the appellant to subscribe his signature to a confessional statement drafted by the P.W.4", "court_quote_para": "35", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "NDPS acquittal with Rs.1L compensation for groundless arrest and coerced confession by NCB 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": "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": "2008-05-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2008) 3 CALLT 345", "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/893167/md-salim-akthar-vs-the-state-of-west-bengal-and-another/", "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-58" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-14-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1158", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Calcutta Police Constable v. State of West Bengal & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Calcutta Police Constable v. State of West Bengal & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Calcutta Police", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Calcutta Police Constable v. State of West Bengal & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.S.T. No. 21 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Subhro Kamal Mukherjee", "Nishita Mhatre" ], "judgment_date": "2012-02-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "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": [ "Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 Chap 19 Reg 11" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Calcutta 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, Calcutta 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/81310704/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e4ad4a93261aa7947d7c", "WBAT order dated 4 Dec 2009 in O.A. No. 335 of 2005" ], "summary": "Calcutta Police constable had at least 31 punishments, mostly for habitual unauthorised absence, before a disciplinary proceeding found him guilty and recommended dismissal. His departmental appeal was dismissed as time-barred with no explanation for delay, and the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal held the punishment not disproportionate given his past conduct. The Calcutta High Court noted he had remained absent throughout the proceedings without cooperating and endorsed the Tribunal's proportionality view. The writ application was dismissed on 8 February 2012 with no order as to costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Calcutta Police constable had at least 31 punishments, mostly for habitual unauthorised absence, before a disciplinary proceeding found him guilty and recommended dismissal. His departmental appeal was dismissed as time-barred with no explanation for delay, and the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal held the punishment not disproportionate given his past conduct. The Calcutta High Court noted he had remained absent throughout the proceedings without cooperating and endorsed the Tribunal's proportionality view. The writ application was dismissed on 8 February 2012 with no order as to costs.", "court_quote": "We find no merit in the writ application and the same, thus, stands dismissed without any order as to costs.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified (Indian Kanoon); dismissal of habitual-absentee constable 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": "2012-02-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P.S.T. No. 21 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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81310704/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e4ad4a93261aa7947d7c", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "WBAT order dated 4 Dec 2009 in O.A. No. 335 of 2005", "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-105" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-32-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1257", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 1024 of 2000", "citation": "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278", "judges": [ "Rajendra Menon" ], "judgment_date": "2012-09-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1999-06-29", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "BSF Act 1968 s.20(a)", "BSF Act 1968 s.20(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF", "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, E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "West Bengal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/603895/ramashray-prasad-dwivedi-vs-the-union-of-india-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. BSF Constable was charge-sheeted for slapping Assistant Commandant a West Bengal man, his Company Commandant, on the left cheek and threatening to shoot and kill him without provocation on 29 June 1999 at about 19:45 hours. A Summary Security Force Court convened on 5 July 1999 established his guilt and the Commandant dismissed him from service the same day. An earlier dismissal of his writ on jurisdiction grounds was set aside by a Division Bench in 2007 and the matter was heard on merits. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the assault on a superior officer was proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, the cited judgments had no relevance to the peculiar facts, and dismissed the petition, sustaining the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "BSF Constable was charge-sheeted for slapping Assistant Commandant a West Bengal man, his Company Commandant, on the left cheek and threatening to shoot and kill him without provocation on 29 June 1999 at about 19:45 hours. A Summary Security Force Court convened on 5 July 1999 established his guilt and the Commandant dismissed him from service the same day. An earlier dismissal of his writ on jurisdiction grounds was set aside by a Division Bench in 2007 and the matter was heard on merits. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the assault on a superior officer was proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, the cited judgments had no relevance to the peculiar facts, and dismissed the petition, sustaining the dismissal.", "court_quote": "Accordingly, finding the petitioner - a Member of the Disciplined Armed Force, to have been punished for the act of assaulting a Superior Officer, which has been proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, I see no reason to interfere into the matter.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC upheld SSFC dismissal of BSF constable for slapping and threatening to kill his Company Commandant; purely internal-discipline matter, incident in West Bengal per jurisdiction discussion.", "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": "2012-09-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278", "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/603895/ramashray-prasad-dwivedi-vs-the-union-of-india-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278", "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-118" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0652", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Kolkata Armed Police Sepoy", "display_title_redacted": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Kolkata Armed Police Sepoy", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "North 24 Parganas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Khardah", "police_station_or_unit": "2nd Battalion, Kolkata Armed Police (on deputation to Traffic Department, Kolkata Police)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Kolkata Armed Police Sepoy", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 10729 of 2013", "citation": "(2014) 3 SCC 610; AIR 2014 SC 405", "judges": [ "K.S. Radhakrishnan", "A.K. Sikri" ], "judgment_date": "2013-11-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2003-11-12", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 392", "IPC 395", "IPC 412", "Arms Act s.25", "Arms Act s.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sepoy", "unit": "2nd Battalion, Kolkata Armed Police", "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": 0.17, "jev_p_culpable": 0.84, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sepoy, 2nd Battalion, Kolkata Armed 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/16056318/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af33e4b0149711415cc2" ], "summary": "Sepoy (2nd Battalion KAP, on deputation to Kolkata Traffic Police) was arrested on 26 November 2003 for complicity in a dacoity (Khardah PS Case 383, Sections 392/395/412 IPC and Arms Act), suspended and dismissed after a departmental enquiry found gross misconduct. Though acquitted by the Sessions Court, Barrackpore, he won reinstatement from the WB Administrative Tribunal, affirmed by the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court held under the Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 that criminal acquittal is no bar to departmental punishment, allowed the State's appeal and set aside the reinstatement.", "summary_verified": "Sepoy (2nd Battalion KAP, on deputation to Kolkata Traffic Police) was arrested on 26 November 2003 for complicity in a dacoity (Khardah PS Case 383, Sections 392/395/412 IPC and Arms Act), suspended and dismissed after a departmental enquiry found gross misconduct. Though acquitted by the Sessions Court, Barrackpore, he won reinstatement from the WB Administrative Tribunal, affirmed by the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court held under the Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 that criminal acquittal is no bar to departmental punishment, allowed the State's appeal and set aside the reinstatement.", "court_quote": "The Tribunal as well as the High Court have not considered the above-mentioned provision and have committed a mistake in holding that since the respondent was acquitted by a Criminal Court of the same charges, reinstatement was automatic. We find it difficult to support the finding recorded by the Tribunal which was confirmed by the High Court. We, therefore, allow the appeal and set aside the order of the Tribunal, which was affirmed by the High Court.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Tribunal reinstatement set aside, dacoity-accused sepoy's dismissal 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": "2013-11-28", "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": "(2014) 3 SCC 610; AIR 2014 SC 405", "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/16056318/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af33e4b0149711415cc2", "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-016", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1156", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Police Constable (Traffic) v. State of West Bengal", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Police Constable (Traffic) v. State of West Bengal", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Kolkata Police (Traffic)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Police Constable (Traffic) v. State of West Bengal", "case_number": "W.P.S.T. No. 143 of 2013", "citation": "(2014) 4 CHN 487; (2014) 04 CAL CK 0026", "judges": [ "Nishita Mhatre", "Tapash Mookherjee" ], "judgment_date": "2014-04-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2005-05-04", "incident_year": 2005, "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 (Traffic)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kolkata 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 (Traffic), Kolkata 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/872516/prollad-das-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "WBAT order dated 17 Dec 2012 in O.A. No. 661 of 2012" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Kolkata Police traffic constable absented himself from 4 May 2005 after medical rest only until 6 May 2005, sending no intimation and evading examination by the Kolkata Police doctor while producing a private angina certificate from a consulting obstetrician and gynaecologist. An ex-parte enquiry led to his dismissal on 12 June 2007, affirmed in appeal and review and by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal. The Calcutta High Court disbelieved the medical defence and stressed his eight prior punishments for similar misconduct. The writ petition was dismissed on 8 April 2014 with no order as to costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Kolkata Police traffic constable absented himself from 4 May 2005 after medical rest only until 6 May 2005, sending no intimation and evading examination by the Kolkata Police doctor while producing a private angina certificate from a consulting obstetrician and gynaecologist. An ex-parte enquiry led to his dismissal on 12 June 2007, affirmed in appeal and review and by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal. The Calcutta High Court disbelieved the medical defence and stressed his eight prior punishments for similar misconduct. The writ petition was dismissed on 8 April 2014 with no order as to costs.", "court_quote": "Considering the entire material on record, in our opinion, the petitioner does not deserve any sympathy, especially since he has been punished on eight occasions earlier for the similar acts of misconduct.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; Kolkata Police constable's dismissal for 700+ days' absence 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": "2014-04-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2014) 4 CHN 487; (2014) 04 CAL CK 0026", "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/872516/prollad-das-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "WBAT order dated 17 Dec 2012 in O.A. No. 661 of 2012", "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-105" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-32-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0040", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1159", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Woman & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Woman & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Kolkata Police Force", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Woman & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.S.T. No. 109 of 2013 with CAN No. 8104 of 2013", "citation": "(2014) 12 CAL CK 0101", "judges": [ "Jayanta Kumar Biswas", "Ishan Chandra Das" ], "judgment_date": "2014-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2000-12-15", "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": [ "Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 Chap 19 Reg 8", "Administrative Tribunals Act 1985 s.21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kolkata Police Force", "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, Kolkata Police Force" } ], "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.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e3c64a93261a672b94d1", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/873436/maya-rani-das-appellant-hash-the-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "WBAT order dated 10 Sep 2012 in O.A. No. 748 of 2012" ], "summary": "Kolkata Police constable pleaded guilty to unauthorised absence from 15 December 2000, with 16 prior punishments and 164 days of extraordinary leave on record, and was dismissed with effect from 6 April 2001. His legal representatives later sought rescission citing a December 2011 criminal acquittal, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal dismissed the 2012 original application. The Calcutta High Court held the Tribunal could not condone the nine-year delay, that Regulation 8 permits dismissal for absence, and that the penalty was not shockingly disproportionate. The WPST was dismissed on 19 December 2014. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Kolkata Police constable pleaded guilty to unauthorised absence from 15 December 2000, with 16 prior punishments and 164 days of extraordinary leave on record, and was dismissed with effect from 6 April 2001. His legal representatives later sought rescission citing a December 2011 criminal acquittal, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal dismissed the 2012 original application. The Calcutta High Court held the Tribunal could not condone the nine-year delay, that Regulation 8 permits dismissal for absence, and that the penalty was not shockingly disproportionate. The WPST was dismissed on 19 December 2014.", "court_quote": "For these reasons, we affirm the Tribunal order dismissing the OA and dismiss the WPST.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified via CourtKutchehry mirror; dismissal upheld, WPST dismissed as time-barred.", "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": "2014-12-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2014) 12 CAL CK 0101", "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.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e3c64a93261a672b94d1", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/873436/maya-rani-das-appellant-hash-the-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "WBAT order dated 10 Sep 2012 in O.A. No. 748 of 2012", "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-105" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-32-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0948", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "West Bengal Police Constable v. State of West Bengal", "display_title_redacted": "West Bengal Police Constable v. State of West Bengal", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Hooghly", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Uttarpara", "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarpara Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "West Bengal Police Constable v. State of West Bengal", "case_number": "CRA 310 of 2008", "citation": "(2015) 01 CAL CK 0031", "judges": [ "S. Chatterjee", "Nishita Mhatre" ], "judgment_date": "2015-01-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2003-09-04", "incident_year": 2003, "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 304 Part II" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "West Bengal Police (vehicle-check duty, Ballykhal, G.T. Road, Uttarpara)", "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, West Bengal Police (vehicle-check duty, Ballykhal, G.T. Road, Uttarpara)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Uttarpara resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 6.83, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/871382/purnendu-samanta-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 0.30 a.m. on 4 September 2003 constable, on routine two-wheeler checking duty at Ballykhal on G.T. Road, Uttarpara, blocked the road to stop a yellow Hero Honda motorcycle that had sped past the first picket and fired a shot from his service revolver, killing the rider. The trial court convicted him under Section 302 IPC with life imprisonment plus Rs. 10,000 fine on 18 April 2008. The court held there was no dispute he was on duty and that he fired in good faith in due discharge of duty without intent to kill, so the act fell under Exception 3 to Section 300 IPC. It set aside the murder conviction, convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC instead, and held the 6 years 10 months already undergone commensurate, ordering release if not required in any other case. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Around 0.30 a.m. on 4 September 2003 constable, on routine two-wheeler checking duty at Ballykhal on G.T. Road, Uttarpara, blocked the road to stop a yellow Hero Honda motorcycle that had sped past the first picket and fired a shot from his service revolver, killing the rider. The trial court convicted him under Section 302 IPC with life imprisonment plus Rs. 10,000 fine on 18 April 2008. The court held there was no dispute he was on duty and that he fired in good faith in due discharge of duty without intent to kill, so the act fell under Exception 3 to Section 300 IPC. It set aside the murder conviction, convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC instead, and held the 6 years 10 months already undergone commensurate, ordering release if not required in any other case.", "court_quote": "The conviction of the appellant under Section 302 of the IPC is set aside. Instead, he is convicted under Section 304 Part II.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "On-duty fatal shooting reduced from murder to s.304-II; 6y10m undergone held sufficient.", "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 Calcutta High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2015) 01 CAL CK 0031", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2015-01-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2015) 01 CAL CK 0031", "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/871382/purnendu-samanta-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-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-58" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-15-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0423", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Man and Another vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Man and Another vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Man and Another vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 33241 (W) of 2013", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dipankar Datta" ], "judgment_date": "2015-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2012-04-12", "incident_year": 2012, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "IPC 509", "IT Act 2000 s.66A", "IPC 500", "IPC 114" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (R-4)", "unit": "Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police", "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": "Sub-Inspector (R-4), Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Officer-in-Charge (R-5)", "unit": "Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police", "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": "Additional Officer-in-Charge (R-5), Purba Jadavpur Police Station, Kolkata Police" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kolkata man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kolkata man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38644431/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://punjabtimes.com.au/2015/03/11/hc-directs-mamata-govt-to-compensate-ju-prof-for-arrest/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Jadavpur University professor a Kolkata man and his neighbour a Kolkata man were manhandled by a mob and then arrested by Purba Jadavpur police on the night of 12 April 2012 for circulating an email cartoon featuring the Chief Minister, spending the night in custody for bailable and non-cognizable offences. The State defended the detention as protective custody and rejected the WBHRC recommendation of Rs 50,000 compensation each plus departmental action. The Calcutta High Court held the arrests were in brazen violation of law, called the protective-custody plea a bogey, and upheld the WBHRC recommendation by awarding Rs 50,000 each plus Rs 50,000 costs. It directed disciplinary proceedings against the two respondent officers (R-4 and R-5, names redacted in the reported text) to be initiated within a month and taken to a logical conclusion. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Jadavpur University professor a Kolkata man and his neighbour a Kolkata man were manhandled by a mob and then arrested by Purba Jadavpur police on the night of 12 April 2012 for circulating an email cartoon featuring the Chief Minister, spending the night in custody for bailable and non-cognizable offences. The State defended the detention as protective custody and rejected the WBHRC recommendation of Rs 50,000 compensation each plus departmental action. The Calcutta High Court held the arrests were in brazen violation of law, called the protective-custody plea a bogey, and upheld the WBHRC recommendation by awarding Rs 50,000 each plus Rs 50,000 costs. It directed disciplinary proceedings against the two respondent officers (R-4 and R-5, names redacted in the reported text) to be initiated within a month and taken to a logical conclusion.", "court_quote": "Relief claimed is moulded by declaring that the petitioners' human rights were indeed violated by public servants; consequently, the State Government shall adequately compensate the petitioners. They shall be entitled to Rs. 50,000/- each as compensatory relief, to be released within a month from date of service of a certified copy of this judgment and order.", "court_quote_para": "71", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 50,000 each for illegal arrest over email cartoon; disciplinary proceedings directed.", "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": "2015-03-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P. No. 33241 (W) of 2013", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/38644431/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://punjabtimes.com.au/2015/03/11/hc-directs-mamata-govt-to-compensate-ju-prof-for-arrest/", "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": "WESTBE-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0422", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Hooghly", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Uttarpara", "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarpara Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Tapabrata Chakraborty" ], "judgment_date": "2015-07-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2003-09-04", "incident_year": 2003, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (C-1172)", "unit": "Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (C-1172), Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 35, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Uttarpara man, age 35" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86219018/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84566491/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 4 September 2003 a Uttarpara man (35) was riding home on G.T. Road when he failed to stop at a night check; police constable shot him dead with his service revolver and then fabricated a firearm injury on himself to plead private defence. A Sessions Court convicted [name withheld] of murder with life imprisonment in April 2008, and a departmental enquiry held the firing intentional, excessive and unjustified; the State still rejected the mother's compensation claim. The Calcutta High Court held the infringement of the fundamental right established through the criminal verdict, rejected the State's limitation and scheme objections, and directed the State to pay a lump sum of Rs 3 lakh within eight weeks. On the mother's intra-court appeal a Division Bench in December 2022 upheld the findings and enhanced compensation by a further Rs 5 lakh (total Rs 8 lakh).", "summary_verified": "On 4 September 2003 a Uttarpara man (35) was riding home on G.T. Road when he failed to stop at a night check; police constable shot him dead with his service revolver and then fabricated a firearm injury on himself to plead private defence. A Sessions Court convicted [name withheld] of murder with life imprisonment in April 2008, and a departmental enquiry held the firing intentional, excessive and unjustified; the State still rejected the mother's compensation claim. The Calcutta High Court held the infringement of the fundamental right established through the criminal verdict, rejected the State's limitation and scheme objections, and directed the State to pay a lump sum of Rs 3 lakh within eight weeks. On the mother's intra-court appeal a Division Bench in December 2022 upheld the findings and enhanced compensation by a further Rs 5 lakh (total Rs 8 lakh).", "court_quote": "In the instant case, the infringement of fundamental right stands established inasmuch as the petitioner’s son has been murdered by a police personnel and the same stands proved through the verdict given by the competent criminal forum and furthermore in the instant case the sufferings of the petitioner has assumed more gruesome dimension since the perpetrator of the crime is a \"man in uniform\".", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 3 lakh compensation for unjustified police shooting; Article 21 violation held established.", "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": "2015-07-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P. No. 8925 (W) 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": [ "court_quote" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86219018/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84566491/", "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": "WESTBE-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0653", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. State Armed Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. State Armed Police Constable", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Uttar Dinajpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raiganj", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. State Armed Police Constable", "case_number": "WPST No. 20 of 2016", "citation": "2016 SCC OnLine Cal 4259", "judges": [ "Nishita Mhatre", "Rakesh Tiwari" ], "judgment_date": "2016-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2007-10-09", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 419", "IPC 420", "IPC 120-B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "State Armed Police, West Bengal", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.44, "jev_p_culpable": 0.76, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "unclear", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, State Armed Police, West Bengal" } ], "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/105609604/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/policeman-dismissed-service-not-entitled-reinstatement-acquittal-criminal-case-calcutta-hc-read-judgment" ], "summary": "State Armed Police constable, posted at Raiganj, was accused in Raiganj PS Case 383/2007 (Sections 419/420/120-B IPC) over impersonation to procure constable employment, and was dismissed in January 2012 after a departmental enquiry for tarnishing the police image. Though honourably acquitted in the criminal trial, the Division Bench followed State of WB v. [name withheld] and held there is no provision under the Police Regulations to reinstate an employee acquitted of a criminal charge. The State's petition was allowed and the Tribunal's reinstatement order quashed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "State Armed Police constable, posted at Raiganj, was accused in Raiganj PS Case 383/2007 (Sections 419/420/120-B IPC) over impersonation to procure constable employment, and was dismissed in January 2012 after a departmental enquiry for tarnishing the police image. Though honourably acquitted in the criminal trial, the Division Bench followed State of WB v. [name withheld] and held there is no provision under the Police Regulations to reinstate an employee acquitted of a criminal charge. The State's petition was allowed and the Tribunal's reinstatement order quashed.", "court_quote": "However, there is no provision under the Police Regulations to reinstate an employee who has been acquitted of a criminal charge. We do not, therefore, find that the Tribunal was correct, in allowing the original application.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Tribunal reinstatement quashed, constable's dismissal 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": "2016-08-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2016 SCC OnLine Cal 4259", "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/105609604/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/policeman-dismissed-service-not-entitled-reinstatement-acquittal-criminal-case-calcutta-hc-read-judgment", "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-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1018", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "BSF Non-Commissioned Officer vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "BSF Non-Commissioned Officer vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Dakshin Dinajpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patiram", "police_station_or_unit": "57th Battalion, BSF, Patiram (Kote/armoury)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "BSF Non-Commissioned Officer vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 2115 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Hemant Gupta", "Ahsanuddin Amanullah" ], "judgment_date": "2016-08-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2007-06-01", "incident_year": 2007, "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": "Non-Commissioned Officer", "unit": "57th Battalion, BSF", "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": "Non-Commissioned Officer, 57th Battalion, BSF" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/63374546/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], a BSF non-commissioned officer in charge of the Kote (armoury) of 57 Battalion at Patiram, was dismissed in July 2007 after an enquiry found Rs.53,440 concealed in an old register inside the Kote under his control. The court found he had been given a fair hearing with a defence assistant and that concealment of private money in the armoury was unauthorized. The court held that even on re-appreciation of the evidence no illegality tainted the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a BSF non-commissioned officer in charge of the Kote (armoury) of 57 Battalion at Patiram, was dismissed in July 2007 after an enquiry found Rs.53,440 concealed in an old register inside the Kote under his control. The court found he had been given a fair hearing with a defence assistant and that concealment of private money in the armoury was unauthorized. The court held that even on re-appreciation of the evidence no illegality tainted the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "even on re-appreciation of evidence, we find no illegality in the order of punishment against the appellant.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed the LPA; dismissal of BSF NCO for concealing cash in the armoury 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": "2016-08-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 2115 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/63374546/", "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-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-019", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0427", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Raninagar Man vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Raninagar Man vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Murshidabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raninagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Raninagar Police Station area (per interim order; final judgment names no PS)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Raninagar Man vs The State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 16457 (W) of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Debangsu Basak" ], "judgment_date": "2017-09-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2014-02-15", "incident_year": 2014, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 18, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Raninagar man, age 18" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165043988/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/india1216_web_0.pdf" ], "summary": "A Raninagar man (18) died in police custody on 15 February 2014, taken into custody in the afternoon and found dead the same evening, with the State claiming he hanged himself in the male-lockup latrine and opposing compensation citing a pending criminal proceeding. His widow [name withheld] limited her writ claim to compensation for custodial death. The Calcutta High Court held custody at the time of death was established, distinguished Dalbir Singh, and held the pending case did not denude her right to compensation. It directed the State to pay Rs 3 lakh within six weeks, leaving other heirs free to claim further compensation before the appropriate forum. District and police station are per the interim order and HRW report (Raninagar PS, Murshidabad); the final judgment names no station. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Raninagar man (18) died in police custody on 15 February 2014, taken into custody in the afternoon and found dead the same evening, with the State claiming he hanged himself in the male-lockup latrine and opposing compensation citing a pending criminal proceeding. His widow [name withheld] limited her writ claim to compensation for custodial death. The Calcutta High Court held custody at the time of death was established, distinguished Dalbir Singh, and held the pending case did not denude her right to compensation. It directed the State to pay Rs 3 lakh within six weeks, leaving other heirs free to claim further compensation before the appropriate forum. District and police station are per the interim order and HRW report (Raninagar PS, Murshidabad); the final judgment names no station.", "court_quote": "The death occurred at the time when the accused was admittedly in the custody of the police on such date. The explanation and justification of the cause of death are issues, which are to be considered in the appropriate criminal proceeding. The fact that one of the police officers has been proceeded against also will not denude the right of the petitioner to receive compensation for custodial death of her husband.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 3 lakh for custodial death; custody at death admitted, pending case no bar.", "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": "2017-09-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P. No. 16457 (W) 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/165043988/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/india1216_web_0.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-31" ], "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1121", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CISF Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Union of India & Ors. v. CISF Constable", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit KoPT Kolkata", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CISF Constable", "case_number": "Civil Appeal Nos. 7939-7942 of 2022", "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine SC 1617", "judges": [ "D.Y. Chandrachud", "Hima Kohli" ], "judgment_date": "2022-11-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2007-11-07", "incident_year": 2007, "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF Unit KoPT Kolkata", "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, CISF Unit KoPT Kolkata" } ], "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://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2022/4532/4532_2022_1_1502_39982_Judgement_23-Nov-2022.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/92994769/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Constable of the CISF Unit at Kolkata Port Trust was on armed C-shift guard at the Alif Nagar Scrap Yard, Garden Reach, on the night of 7/8 November 2007, when about 800 kg of copper wire was stolen from the yard and intercepted by local police outside the port. Charged with gross negligence and dereliction of duty plus an incorrigible record of eight punishments in thirteen years, he was dismissed on 27 November 2008 after inquiry, upheld in departmental appeal and revision. A Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court substituted compulsory retirement and the Division Bench ordered reinstatement with back wages. The Supreme Court held the dismissal commensurate with the misconduct and past record, allowed the Union appeals, dismissed the constable appeals and restored the dismissal.", "summary_verified": "Constable of the CISF Unit at Kolkata Port Trust was on armed C-shift guard at the Alif Nagar Scrap Yard, Garden Reach, on the night of 7/8 November 2007, when about 800 kg of copper wire was stolen from the yard and intercepted by local police outside the port. Charged with gross negligence and dereliction of duty plus an incorrigible record of eight punishments in thirteen years, he was dismissed on 27 November 2008 after inquiry, upheld in departmental appeal and revision. A Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court substituted compulsory retirement and the Division Bench ordered reinstatement with back wages. The Supreme Court held the dismissal commensurate with the misconduct and past record, allowed the Union appeals, dismissed the constable appeals and restored the dismissal.", "court_quote": "In our view, the penalty of dismissal from service imposed on the respondent is commensurate with the gross negligence and dereliction of duty on his part.", "court_quote_para": "30", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC allowed UOI appeals; dismissal of CISF constable for guard-duty negligence restored.", "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": "2022-11-23", "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": "2022 SCC OnLine SC 1617", "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://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2022/4532/4532_2022_1_1502_39982_Judgement_23-Nov-2022.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/92994769/", "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": "GAP3-134-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0563", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur Woman v. State of West Bengal & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur Woman v. State of West Bengal & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Hooghly", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur", "police_station_or_unit": "West Bengal Police (vehicle-check party, Shrirampur-Belur; PS Case No. 128 of 2003)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur Woman v. State of West Bengal & Ors.", "case_number": "FMA No. 3613 of 2015 (Single Bench: W.P. No. 8925(W) of 2009)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T.S. Sivagnanam", "Hiranmay Bhattacharyya" ], "judgment_date": "2022-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2003-09-03", "incident_year": 2003, "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": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "West Bengal Police (vehicle-check party)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.5, "jev_p_culpable": 0.54, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, West Bengal Police (vehicle-check party)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 35, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man, age 35" } ], "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/127584471/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. At midnight on 3 September 2003, 35-year-old scrap dealer a G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man was shot dead by Constable on G.T. Road for riding past a vehicle check; the constable was separately convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. An Executive Magistrate inquiry under the Police Regulations of Bengal found the firing wholly unjustified, brutal and excessive, but no follow-up action was taken. The Single Bench awarded Rs 3,00,000 in 2015 (paid only in 2016); the Division Bench held the Article 21 violation indisputably established and directed an additional Rs 5,00,000 (Rs 8,00,000 total) within 60 days, noting thirteen years of delay. Compensation recorded here is the Rs 5,00,000 ordered by this judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "At midnight on 3 September 2003, 35-year-old scrap dealer a G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man was shot dead by Constable on G.T. Road for riding past a vehicle check; the constable was separately convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. An Executive Magistrate inquiry under the Police Regulations of Bengal found the firing wholly unjustified, brutal and excessive, but no follow-up action was taken. The Single Bench awarded Rs 3,00,000 in 2015 (paid only in 2016); the Division Bench held the Article 21 violation indisputably established and directed an additional Rs 5,00,000 (Rs 8,00,000 total) within 60 days, noting thirteen years of delay. Compensation recorded here is the Rs 5,00,000 ordered by this judgment.", "court_quote": "The Executive Magistrate's report which has been referred to by the learned Single Bench clearly shows that the writ petitioner's son was done to death by police personnel using a firearm and there was absolutely no justification to use the firearm and the same was held to be brutal and excessive.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Unjustified midnight shooting by constable (already life-convicted); HC added Rs 5L.", "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": "2022-12-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "FMA No. 3613 of 2015 (Single Bench: W.P. 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S., District - Birbhum", "display_title_redacted": "Mallarpur Boy vs State of West Bengal & Ors; Court on its own motion, In Re: Unnatural death of a teenaged boy in Mallarpur P. S., District - Birbhum", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Birbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mallarpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Mallarpur Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mallarpur Boy vs State of West Bengal & Ors; Court on its own motion, In Re: Unnatural death of a teenaged boy in Mallarpur P. S., District - Birbhum", "case_number": "WPA (P) 9 of 2020 with WPA (P) 13 of 2020", "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 107", "judges": [ "T. S. Sivagnanam", "Hiranmay Bhattacharyya" ], "judgment_date": "2023-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2020-10-29", "incident_year": 2020, "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": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226", "Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 s.10", "West Bengal Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Rules 2017 Rule 8" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mallarpur boy, age 15" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/76171503/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court-state-govt-pay-15-lakh-compensation-family-teenager-died-police-custody-226477" ], "summary": "The Calcutta High Court, hearing a PIL alongside a suo motu writ petition, adjudicated the unnatural death of a 15-year-old boy in the custody of Mallarpur Police Station, Birbhum in October 2020. Finding that the minor had been kept in police lockup in direct violation of the Juvenile and the West Bengal Juvenile, 2017, the Court termed the incident a \"sorry state of affairs.\" The Court observed that the internal disciplinary punishment imposed on the stationed police personnel—stoppage of annual increment for one year—was thoroughly inadequate considering the gravity of the charge. The Division Bench directed the Government of West Bengal to pay Rs. 15 lakh compensation to the victim boy's family within 15 days and issued binding directions for statewide police sensitization. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court, hearing a PIL alongside a suo motu writ petition, adjudicated the unnatural death of a 15-year-old boy in the custody of Mallarpur Police Station, Birbhum in October 2020. Finding that the minor had been kept in police lockup in direct violation of the Juvenile and the West Bengal Juvenile, 2017, the Court termed the incident a \"sorry state of affairs.\" The Court observed that the internal disciplinary punishment imposed on the stationed police personnel—stoppage of annual increment for one year—was thoroughly inadequate considering the gravity of the charge. The Division Bench directed the Government of West Bengal to pay Rs. 15 lakh compensation to the victim boy's family within 15 days and issued binding directions for statewide police sensitization.", "court_quote": "On going through the reports and the factual matrix, we find that there is a sorry state of affairs in which a young boy of 15 years died in police custody.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta High Court found 15-year-old died in Mallarpur PS custody, condemned inadequate departmental punishment, and ordered Rs. 15 lakh 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 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": "2023-04-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 107", "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/76171503/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court-state-govt-pay-15-lakh-compensation-family-teenager-died-police-custody-226477", "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-14" ], "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0040", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0421", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0932", "CWC-1473" ], "display_title": "Titagarh Man vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Titagarh Man vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "North 24 Parganas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Titagarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Titagarh Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Titagarh Man vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "case_number": "WPA 7882 of 2022", "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 116, 2023 Supreme(Cal) 500", "judges": [ "Shampa Sarkar" ], "judgment_date": "2023-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2022-03-09", "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": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "CrPC s.151", "NDPS Act 1985 s.21(c)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Titagarh Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.67, "jev_p_culpable": 0.45, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Titagarh Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Titagarh 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/22026689/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court/calcutta-high-court-cctv-footage-destructed-lapses-arrest-2-lakh-compensation-man-implicated-falsely-ndps-act-police-227189", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/04/28/writ-petition-calcutta-high-court-police-atrocity-violation-fundamental-rights-compensation-scc-blog-legal-research-news/", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/calcutta-high-court-orders-2-lakh-compensation-lapses-mans-arrest" ], "summary": "The Calcutta High Court held that the arrest and detention of a Titagarh man by Titagarh police on March 9, 2022 demonstrated abuse of power and procedural irregularities. Shukla was picked up in plainclothes without notice following municipal elections, allegedly assaulted, and later booked under Section 21(c) of the NDPS Act, while police station CCTV footage was destroyed. The Court noted multiple lapses including unjustified invocation of Section 151 CrPC and destruction of material evidence. While declining to quash the chargesheet or transfer the investigation, the Court awarded Rs. 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner family for violation of human dignity, recoverable from erring officers after an inquiry by the Commissioner of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court held that the arrest and detention of a Titagarh man by Titagarh police on March 9, 2022 demonstrated abuse of power and procedural irregularities. Shukla was picked up in plainclothes without notice following municipal elections, allegedly assaulted, and later booked under Section 21(c) of the NDPS Act, while police station CCTV footage was destroyed. The Court noted multiple lapses including unjustified invocation of Section 151 CrPC and destruction of material evidence. While declining to quash the chargesheet or transfer the investigation, the Court awarded Rs. 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner family for violation of human dignity, recoverable from erring officers after an inquiry by the Commissioner of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate.", "court_quote": "However, the sequence of events and the discrepancies and irregularities which have been pointed out hereinabove indicate that the police authorities failed to discharge their duty in accordance with law. Disturbing features have been noticed by the court in the process of arrest of a Titagarh man on March 9, 2022, and further arrest on March 10, 2022 for commission of offence under the NDPS Act.", "court_quote_para": "37", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta High Court found police abuse of power, illegal detention, and destruction of station CCTV footage, awarding Rs. 2 lakh compensation.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2023-04-25", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 116, 2023 Supreme(Cal) 500", "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": [] }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2023-0011 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-25", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/22026689/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court/calcutta-high-court-cctv-footage-destructed-lapses-arrest-2-lakh-compensation-man-implicated-falsely-ndps-act-police-227189", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/04/28/writ-petition-calcutta-high-court-police-atrocity-violation-fundamental-rights-compensation-scc-blog-legal-research-news/", "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-14" ], "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0426", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. Versus Kolkata Police Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. Versus Kolkata Police Police Constable", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Malda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ratua", "police_station_or_unit": "Kolkata Police", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. Versus Kolkata Police Police Constable", "case_number": "WP.ST 508 of 2013", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Debangsu Basak", "Md. Shabbar Rashidi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-08-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "1994-02-09", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 456", "IPC 329", "IPC 34", "Arms Act 1959 s.25", "Arms Act 1959 s.27", "Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 Chapter XIX Regulation 4", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kolkata Police", "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": 0.5, "jev_p_culpable": 0.6, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Kolkata Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ratua 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/28168571/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Calcutta Police constable was dismissed from service following Departmental Proceeding No. 110 of 1999 for unauthorized absence from duty, failing to report his implication in a criminal case, and involvement in the murder of a Ratua man under Ratua Police Station in Malda on 9 February 1994. Although Roy was subsequently acquitted in the criminal trial (Sessions Trial No. 1(4) of 2008), the Commissioner of Police rejected his reinstatement plea under Regulation 4, Chapter XIX of the Police Regulations of Calcutta. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal quashed the dismissal, but the Calcutta High Court allowed the State's writ petition and set aside the Tribunal's order. The High Court held that acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically bar disciplinary punishment or mandate reinstatement, as the standards of proof and scope of charges differ, thereby restoring the constable's dismissal from service. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Calcutta Police constable was dismissed from service following Departmental Proceeding No. 110 of 1999 for unauthorized absence from duty, failing to report his implication in a criminal case, and involvement in the murder of a Ratua man under Ratua Police Station in Malda on 9 February 1994. Although Roy was subsequently acquitted in the criminal trial (Sessions Trial No. 1(4) of 2008), the Commissioner of Police rejected his reinstatement plea under Regulation 4, Chapter XIX of the Police Regulations of Calcutta. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal quashed the dismissal, but the Calcutta High Court allowed the State's writ petition and set aside the Tribunal's order. The High Court held that acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically bar disciplinary punishment or mandate reinstatement, as the standards of proof and scope of charges differ, thereby restoring the constable's dismissal from service.", "court_quote": "Therefore, in the light of discussions made hereinbefore, the impugned order passed by the tribunal in O.A. 1275 of 2012 is liable to be set aside. We accordingly, set aside the impugned order passed by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal.", "court_quote_para": "35", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta High Court allowed State's writ petition and restored constable's dismissal from service for murder implication and unauthorized absence despite criminal trial acquittal.", "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": "2023-08-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "WP.ST 508 of 2013", "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/28168571/", "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-14" ], "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0051", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0954", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Calcutta Police (Central Bank guard duty)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable", "case_number": "WP.ST 627 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Debangsu Basak", "Md. Shabbar Rashidi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-09-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2000-07-23", "incident_year": 2000, "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": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 170", "IPC 419", "IPC 511" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Calcutta 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, Calcutta 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.casemine.com/judgement/in/6571589e7eb9195f0af3c66d", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/69361740/" ], "summary": "Constable of Calcutta Police was booked for Central Bank guard duty with firearms on 23 July 2000, left without informing any authority and without depositing his firearm, and remained absent until 8 August 2000, during which he was arrested on 31 July 2000 in an English Bazar impersonation case and held in custody until 7 August 2000. The disciplinary authority dismissed him on 22 September 2003, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the dismissal and directed reinstatement. The court held the charges stood established by the respondent's own admission, that abandoning guard duty and issued arms was serious dereliction unbecoming of police personnel, and that the enquiry complied with natural justice. It held the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction in interfering with the quantum of punishment, set aside the Tribunal order, and restored the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable of Calcutta Police was booked for Central Bank guard duty with firearms on 23 July 2000, left without informing any authority and without depositing his firearm, and remained absent until 8 August 2000, during which he was arrested on 31 July 2000 in an English Bazar impersonation case and held in custody until 7 August 2000. The disciplinary authority dismissed him on 22 September 2003, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the dismissal and directed reinstatement. The court held the charges stood established by the respondent's own admission, that abandoning guard duty and issued arms was serious dereliction unbecoming of police personnel, and that the enquiry complied with natural justice. It held the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction in interfering with the quantum of punishment, set aside the Tribunal order, and restored the dismissal.", "court_quote": "In such circumstances, the impugned order of the Tribunal is set aside. The order of dismissal from service of the respondent is restored.", "court_quote_para": "32", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta Police constable's dismissal restored for abandoning armed bank-guard duty and firearms.", "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": "2023-09-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "WP.ST 627 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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/6571589e7eb9195f0af3c66d", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/69361740/", "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-58" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-16-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0749", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Suti Man v. State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Suti Man v. State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Murshidabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Suti", "police_station_or_unit": "Suti Police Station, Murshidabad", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Suti Man v. State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "WPA 24157 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Suvra Ghosh" ], "judgment_date": "2025-11-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-04-15", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Unknown", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Suti Police Station, Murshidabad", "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": "Unknown, Suti Police Station, Murshidabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Suti 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/12905607/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Calcutta High Court (Justice Suvra Ghosh) ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 within seven days to a Suti man @ a Suti man for 30 days of admittedly illegal detention. It was the admitted position that the petitioner, who had no nexus whatsoever with Suti PS Case No.404/2025 dated 15 April 2025 (though accused in other cases), was kept in custody in that case, with the State attributing it to inadvertent clerical mistake and unintentional error. The Court held such faultless 30-day custody unacceptable, granted compensation citing D.G. & I.G. of Police v. Prem Sagar (1999) 5 SCC 700, and made the order peremptory and mandatory. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court (Justice Suvra Ghosh) ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 within seven days to a Suti man @ a Suti man for 30 days of admittedly illegal detention. It was the admitted position that the petitioner, who had no nexus whatsoever with Suti PS Case No.404/2025 dated 15 April 2025 (though accused in other cases), was kept in custody in that case, with the State attributing it to inadvertent clerical mistake and unintentional error. The Court held such faultless 30-day custody unacceptable, granted compensation citing D.G. & I.G. of Police v. Prem Sagar (1999) 5 SCC 700, and made the order peremptory and mandatory.", "court_quote": "It is not acceptable that a person is detained in custody for as many as 30 days without any fault on his part merely on the ground of some clerical mistake or unintentional error.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC short order verified verbatim on Indian Kanoon; admitted 30-day detention, Rs 50,000 in 7 days matches.", "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": "2025-11-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "WPA 24157 of 2025", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/12905607/", "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-53" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-076", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0049", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1160", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Serampore Man v. State of West Bengal and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Serampore Man v. State of West Bengal and Anr.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Hooghly", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Serampore", "police_station_or_unit": "Serampore Women Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Serampore Man v. State of West Bengal and Anr.", "case_number": "CRA (DB) No. 25 of 2025", "citation": "2026:CHC-AS:811-DB", "judges": [ "Arijit Banerjee", "Apurba Sinha Ray" ], "judgment_date": "2026-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2022-03-23", "incident_year": 2022, "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": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 376(2)(f)", "IPC 328", "IPC 506", "POCSO Act 2012 s.6" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Serampore Women Police Station", "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, Serampore Women Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Serampore 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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/25/display-6watermark-1778205.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/calcutta-high-court/pratap-digal-v-state-of-west-bengal-2026chc-as811-db-reverse-burden-us-29-pocso-act-interested-1614641" ], "summary": "Professor a Serampore man was convicted by the Serampore trial court in July 2024 in Women PS Case No. 12 of 2022 and spent over four years in custody. The Calcutta High Court held the investigation by S.[name withheld] was perfunctory and biased: a vaginal swab was never sent for forensic examination, neutral residents were ignored, and key witnesses were omitted from the chargesheet. The Court set aside the conviction, acquitted the appellant, and held his prolonged deprivation of liberty was directly precipitated by the IO's gross incompetence. It ordered Rs. 10 lakh compensation within three months, recoverable from the delinquent officials, and directed the DGP to consider disciplinary proceedings against the IO. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Professor a Serampore man was convicted by the Serampore trial court in July 2024 in Women PS Case No. 12 of 2022 and spent over four years in custody. The Calcutta High Court held the investigation by S.[name withheld] was perfunctory and biased: a vaginal swab was never sent for forensic examination, neutral residents were ignored, and key witnesses were omitted from the chargesheet. The Court set aside the conviction, acquitted the appellant, and held his prolonged deprivation of liberty was directly precipitated by the IO's gross incompetence. It ordered Rs. 10 lakh compensation within three months, recoverable from the delinquent officials, and directed the DGP to consider disciplinary proceedings against the IO.", "court_quote": "The Investigating Officer (IO) failed to take even rudimentary steps to verify the allegations against Professor a Serampore man", "court_quote_para": "60", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary HC PDF verified; conviction set aside, Rs.10L compensation for IO-caused wrongful incarceration.", "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": "2026-05-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta 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:CHC-AS:811-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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/25/display-6watermark-1778205.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/calcutta-high-court/pratap-digal-v-state-of-west-bengal-2026chc-as811-db-reverse-burden-us-29-pocso-act-interested-1614641", "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-105" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-36-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }