{
 "record_id": "CW-1999-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0293",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "C. V. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "C. V. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Puducherry",
 "district": "Puducherry",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Puducherry",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Grand Bazaar Police Station, Pondicherry Police",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "C. V. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "Crl.O.P. No. 167 of 1998",
 "citation": "(1999) 04 MAD CK 0016",
 "judges": [
  "M. Karpagavinayagam"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1999-04-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1999,
 "incident_date": "1993-07-30",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "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": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 366",
  "IPC 376(2)(a)(iii)",
  "IPC 376(2)(g)"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 6,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Puducherry woman, age 22",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "the complainant"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/7900/c-vijaya-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Madras High Court recorded that prima facie materials proved 22-year-old the complainant, a Dalit woman, was gang-raped by Pondicherry Grand Bazaar police personnel who took her from Sitharasur village in a police van on the night of 29/30 July 1993 on the pretext of tracing a theft suspect. The Court noted the offence occurred in Tamil Nadu (Vellamai, Villupuram district) while she was in their custody, and held the Union Territory of Pondicherry vicariously liable as their employer. It directed the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 1,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered further investigation adding SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act provisions. The criminal trial outcome is not recorded in this order.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court recorded that prima facie materials proved 22-year-old Vijaya, a Dalit woman, was gang-raped by Pondicherry Grand Bazaar police personnel who took her from Sitharasur village in a police van on the night of 29/30 July 1993 on the pretext of tracing a theft suspect. The Court noted the offence occurred in Tamil Nadu (Vellamai, Villupuram district) while she was in their custody, and held the Union Territory of Pondicherry vicariously liable as their employer. It directed the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 1,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered further investigation adding SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act provisions. The criminal trial outcome is not recorded in this order.",
 "court_quote": "there are prima facie materials to prove that the victim [the complainant] was gang-raped by the Police personnel attached to the Pondicherry Grand Bazaar Police Station.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC recorded prima facie custodial gang-rape by Pondicherry police and awarded Rs 1 lakh; matches adverse_finding_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 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": "1999-04-19",
   "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": "(1999) 04 MAD CK 0016",
   "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/7900/c-vijaya-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others/",
   "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-29"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "PUDUCH-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}