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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Tadipatri Man vs S.H.O. and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Tadipatri Man vs S.H.O. and Ors.",
 "state": "Andhra Pradesh",
 "district": "Ananthapuramu",
 "district_at_time": "Anantapur",
 "city_town": "Tadipatri",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Tadipatri Rural Police Station",
 "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Tadipatri Man vs S.H.O. and Ors.",
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 "citation": "1997 (6) ALT 278",
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  "Y. Bhaskar Rao",
  "K.B. Siddappa"
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 "judgment_date": "1997-11-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1997-08-31",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 21",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226",
  "IPC 302"
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   "display": "Inspector of Police, Tadipatri"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tadipatri man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/851781/",
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 "summary": "Acting on newspaper reports in Eenadu, the High Court held that a Tadipatri man, a poor coolie, was illegally detained at Tadipatri Rural Police Station on 31 August 1997 and tortured to death by police personnel after failing to satisfy their demands. The CID investigation and post-mortem report confirmed severe multiple ante-mortem injuries, including a skull fracture and broken ribs, holding the Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, and Constable responsible. Finding a gross violation of Article 21, the Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation to the deceased wife and son and directed the Assistant Sessions Judge, Tadipatri to conduct an enquiry into broader allegations of police extortion and torture in the area. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Acting on newspaper reports in Eenadu, the High Court held that a Tadipatri man, a poor coolie, was illegally detained at Tadipatri Rural Police Station on 31 August 1997 and tortured to death by police personnel after failing to satisfy their demands. The CID investigation and post-mortem report confirmed severe multiple ante-mortem injuries, including a skull fracture and broken ribs, holding the Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, and Constable responsible. Finding a gross violation of Article 21, the Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation to the deceased wife and son and directed the Assistant Sessions Judge, Tadipatri to conduct an enquiry into broader allegations of police extortion and torture in the area.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, it is established that the deceased succumbed to the injuries due to torture by the police in the lock-up.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court held coolie a Tadipatri man was tortured to death in lock-up at Tadipatri Rural PS and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation to widow and son.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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": "1997-11-13",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1997 (6) ALT 278",
   "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-009",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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}