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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Wallajahbad Police Sub-Inspector vs State rep. by Inspector of Police, Chennai",
 "display_title_redacted": "Wallajahbad Police Sub-Inspector vs State rep. by Inspector of Police, Chennai",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Kancheepuram",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Wallajahbad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Wallajahbad Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Wallajahbad Police Sub-Inspector vs State rep. by Inspector of Police, Chennai",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 105-106 of 2002",
 "citation": "(2003) 1 SCC 534; AIR 2003 SC 215",
 "judges": [
  "N. Santosh Hegde",
  "K.G. Balakrishnan"
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 "judgment_date": "2002-11-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1985-03-05",
 "incident_year": 1985,
 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 201"
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Wallajahbad Police Station"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Wallajahbad man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
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 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1622549/",
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 "summary": "A Wallajahbad man, a suspect in a double-murder case, was brought to Wallajahbad Police Station on 5 March 1985, beaten in custody by the appellant officers, driven away in a police jeep and found dead the next morning; the officers falsely claimed he had escaped. A habeas corpus petition led the Madras High Court to order a CBCID probe, after which the Sessions Judge, Chengalpattu convicted the officers and the High Court confirmed the conviction. The Supreme Court held the circumstantial chain of last-seen evidence, the false escape story and identification of the body proved custodial murder beyond doubt. It dismissed the appeals, sustaining life imprisonment under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC plus concurrent terms under Sections 330, 348 and 201 IPC.",
 "summary_verified": "A Wallajahbad man, a suspect in a double-murder case, was brought to Wallajahbad Police Station on 5 March 1985, beaten in custody by the appellant officers, driven away in a police jeep and found dead the next morning; the officers falsely claimed he had escaped. A habeas corpus petition led the Madras High Court to order a CBCID probe, after which the Sessions Judge, Chengalpattu convicted the officers and the High Court confirmed the conviction. The Supreme Court held the circumstantial chain of last-seen evidence, the false escape story and identification of the body proved custodial murder beyond doubt. It dismissed the appeals, sustaining life imprisonment under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC plus concurrent terms under Sections 330, 348 and 201 IPC.",
 "court_quote": "Torturing a person and using third degree methods are of medieval nature and they are barbaric and contrary to law.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; life sentences of two Wallajahbad SIs for custodial murder confirmed.",
 "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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   "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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   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2003) 1 SCC 534; AIR 2003 SC 215",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2002-11-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2003) 1 SCC 534; AIR 2003 SC 215",
   "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",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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