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 "display_title": "Vaiyampatti Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Vaiyampatti Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "district_at_time": "Trichy",
 "city_town": "Vaiyampatti",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vaiyampatti Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Vaiyampatti Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 10 of 1990",
 "citation": "1998(3) CTC 628",
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  "P. Sathasivam"
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 "judgment_date": "1998-09-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1998,
 "incident_date": "1989-12-13",
 "incident_year": 1989,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 340",
  "IPC 343",
  "IPC 321"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Crime)",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Grade I Police Constable 1682",
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   "display": "Grade I Police Constable 1682, Vaiyampatti Police Station"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Vaiyampatti man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Vaiyampatti man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 11,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 245000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/906606/",
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  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/38215/r-nandakumar-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-2-others/"
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court (P. Sathasivam, J.) allowed a public interest writ petition over the events of 13 December 1989 at Vaiyampatti, where a Vaiyampatti man, picked up for interrogation in a theft complaint, was found hanging from a tree inside the police station premises, and police firing on the protesting mob killed a Vaiyampatti man and injured nine others. The court held that the Vaiyampatti police officers alone were responsible for a Vaiyampatti man's custodial death, noting the Sub-Collector's enquiry and the Sessions Judge's observations. While accepting that the police firing itself was justified, the court enhanced the ex gratia relief, awarding Rs.1,00,000 to a Vaiyampatti man's widow, Rs.50,000 each to a Vaiyampatti man's parents, Rs.5,000 each to the nine injured, and Rs.1,000 costs, all payable within four weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court (P. Sathasivam, J.) allowed a public interest writ petition over the events of 13 December 1989 at Vaiyampatti, where a Vaiyampatti man, picked up for interrogation in a theft complaint, was found hanging from a tree inside the police station premises, and police firing on the protesting mob killed a Vaiyampatti man and injured nine others. The court held that the Vaiyampatti police officers alone were responsible for a Vaiyampatti man's custodial death, noting the Sub-Collector's enquiry and the Sessions Judge's observations. While accepting that the police firing itself was justified, the court enhanced the ex gratia relief, awarding Rs.1,00,000 to a Vaiyampatti man's widow, Rs.50,000 each to a Vaiyampatti man's parents, Rs.5,000 each to the nine injured, and Rs.1,000 costs, all payable within four weeks.",
 "court_quote": "The fact remains that the Police Officers concerned in that Police Station were alone responsible for the death of a Vaiyampatti man",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "PIL allowed; police held solely responsible for custodial death; Rs.2.45 lakh total compensation.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1998-09-09",
   "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 245,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "1998(3) CTC 628",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "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",
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