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 "record_id": "CW-2002-0011",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0498",
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 "display_title": "Chidambaram Police Sub-Inspector and Others v. State represented by Superintendent of Police",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chidambaram Police Sub-Inspector and Others v. State represented by Superintendent of Police",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Cuddalore",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chidambaram",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Chidambaram Town Police Station; Annamalainagar Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chidambaram Police Sub-Inspector and Others v. State represented by Superintendent of Police",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 677 and 680 of 1997 (against Sessions Case No. 99 of 1993, Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "N. Dhinakar",
  "F. M. Ibrahim Kalifulla"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2002-11-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1992-05-30",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "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": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 218",
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 343"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Mehboob Batcha (A1)",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Chidambaram Town Police Station, Cuddalore",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Mehboob Batcha (A1)",
   "display": "Mehboob Batcha (A1) (Sub-Inspector)"
  },
  {
   "name": "S. Parthasaraty (A2)",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector, Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Annamalainagar Police Station, Cuddalore",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "S. Parthasaraty (A2)",
   "display": "S. Parthasaraty (A2) (Sub-Inspector, Station House Officer)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chidambaram man",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Chidambaram woman",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a woman"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/26071083/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeals of Sub-Inspectors (A1) and S. Parthasaraty (A2) arising from the illegal detention and torture of theft suspect a man from 30 May to 2 June 1992 and the gang-rape of his wife a woman by special-team policemen. The Court held A1 and A2 prepared false records (Exs.P-76 to P-78, including a false FIR as Crime No. 159/1992) to show a 2 June 1992 arrest and thereby save their subordinate constables. The Court confirmed their convictions under Section 218 IPC along with convictions under Sections 348, 330, 354 and 376(2) IPC against the appellants, acquitting only on the Section 220 charges. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeals of Sub-Inspectors (A1) and S. Parthasaraty (A2) arising from the illegal detention and torture of theft suspect [name withheld] from 30 May to 2 June 1992 and the gang-rape of his wife [name withheld] by special-team policemen. The Court held A1 and A2 prepared false records (Exs.P-76 to P-78, including a false FIR as Crime No. 159/1992) to show a 2 June 1992 arrest and thereby save their subordinate constables. The Court confirmed their convictions under Section 218 IPC along with convictions under Sections 348, 330, 354 and 376(2) IPC against the appellants, acquitting only on the Section 220 charges.",
 "court_quote": "and the officers, in order to save their sub-ordinate police constables, prepared Exs.P-76 to P-78. Therefore, the conviction of A1 under Charge No. 30 framed u/s 218 IPC and the conviction of A2 for the same offence framed under Charge No. 31, are justified.",
 "court_quote_para": "30",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SIs 218 IPC convictions for false cover-up records confirmed; appeals dismissed.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 677 and 680 of 1997 (against Sessions Case No. 99 of 1993, Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2002-11-28",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 677 and 680 of 1997 (against Sessions Case No. 99 of 1993, Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore)",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "sections"
   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/26071083/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWDERELI-007",
 "officers_named_public": 2,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}