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 "record_id": "CW-1996-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0470",
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 "display_title": "Theni Man v. The Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Theni Man v. The Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Theni",
 "district_at_time": "Madurai",
 "city_town": "Theni",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Narcotics Intelligence Bureau office, Theni",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Theni Man v. The Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 7925 of 1995",
 "citation": "1996(2) CTC 478",
 "judges": [
  "Kanakaraj"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1996-08-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1996,
 "incident_date": "1995-04-05",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "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",
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   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Madras",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.73,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.58,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Madras"
  },
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Madras",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Madras"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 37,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Theni man, age 37"
  }
 ],
 "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/1818499/",
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 "summary": "Justice Kanakaraj held that a Theni man died in the custody of Narcotics Intelligence Bureau officials at Theni and awarded his widow Rs 1 lakh interim compensation (Rs 25,000 immediate, Rs 75,000 in bank deposit), adjustable against regular compensation. A Theni man was detained on 5 April 1995, taken to the NIB office at Theni, chained and tortured while relatives heard his cries. The Sub-Collector/Collector enquiry under PSO 145 rejected the police version and the Government directed prosecution of Inspector and ASI. The Court held the widow entitled to compensation without waiting for the outcome of that prosecution. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Justice Kanakaraj held that a Theni man died in the custody of Narcotics Intelligence Bureau officials at Theni and awarded his widow Rs 1 lakh interim compensation (Rs 25,000 immediate, Rs 75,000 in bank deposit), adjustable against regular compensation. A Theni man was detained on 5 April 1995, taken to the NIB office at Theni, chained and tortured while relatives heard his cries. The Sub-Collector/Collector enquiry under PSO 145 rejected the police version and the Government directed prosecution of Inspector and ASI. The Court held the widow entitled to compensation without waiting for the outcome of that prosecution.",
 "court_quote": "It is a matter of grave violation of human rights and one should take pride in upholding the right of a citizen in this country.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC held NIB custodial death of a Theni man; Rs 1 lakh interim compensation; prosecution of 2 officers 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": "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": "1996-08-14",
   "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 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1996(2) CTC 478",
   "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "SOUTH-001",
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 "service": "police",
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