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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Keelamangalam Man vs The State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Keelamangalam Man vs The State",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Krishnagiri",
 "district_at_time": "Dharmapuri",
 "city_town": "Keelamangalam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Keelamangalam Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Keelamangalam Man vs The State",
 "case_number": "Crl.M.P. No. 15045 of 1989",
 "citation": "1993 Cri LJ 3646",
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 "judgment_date": "1992-02-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1992,
 "incident_date": "1986-12-30",
 "incident_year": 1986,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "CrPC 173"
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   "display": "Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri District"
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   "display": "Inspector, Dharmapuri District"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Keelamangalam Police Station"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Keelamangalam man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 20000,
 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court disposed of the petition of a Keelamangalam man, a primary-school teacher and accused No. 11 in Crime No. 156 of 1986, who remained under interim suspension for over six years because investigating officers never filed a final report and disobeyed two earlier High Court orders. The court recorded that Inspector retained the case diary for years, SP and Inspector failed to act, and SI closed a connected case, violating the petitioner's Article 21 rights. Holding the State bound to compensate, the court awarded Rs.20,000 payable within six weeks (recoverable from erring officials), vacated the stay and directed the charge-sheet within ten days, while dropping contempt. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court disposed of the petition of a Keelamangalam man, a primary-school teacher and accused No. 11 in Crime No. 156 of 1986, who remained under interim suspension for over six years because investigating officers never filed a final report and disobeyed two earlier High Court orders. The court recorded that Inspector retained the case diary for years, SP and Inspector failed to act, and SI closed a connected case, violating the petitioner's Article 21 rights. Holding the State bound to compensate, the court awarded Rs.20,000 payable within six weeks (recoverable from erring officials), vacated the stay and directed the charge-sheet within ten days, while dropping contempt.",
 "court_quote": "The State is bound to compensate the petitioner. It cannot evade its responsibility, on the ground, that the acts done by the officials were individual wrongs or misdeeds.",
 "court_quote_para": "18-C",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Petition disposed; Rs.20,000 for 6-year investigative inaction violating Article 21; charge-sheet in 10 days.",
 "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"
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 "allegations": [
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   "category": "Other",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
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   "date": "1992-02-24",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 20,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1993 Cri LJ 3646",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": []
  }
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-37-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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