{
 "record_id": "CW-2003-0001",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0385",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Makthal Woman vs [name withheld] and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Makthal Woman vs [name withheld] and Ors.",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": "Narayanpet",
 "district_at_time": "Mahbubnagar",
 "city_town": "Makthal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Makthal Police Station",
 "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Makthal Woman vs [name withheld] and Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2003 (2) ALD 49",
 "judges": [
  "V.V.S. Rao"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-01-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "2001-05-14",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 226",
  "IPC 302"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Makthal Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.39,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.7,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Makthal Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Makthal Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Makthal Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Makthal man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Makthal woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1786570/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Makthal man of Karni village was apprehended on 9 May 2001 by Sub-Inspector and staff of Makthal Police Station as a suspect in his first wife death and held in unrecorded, illegal lock-up for five days without being produced before a magistrate. On 14 May 2001, while under severe mental strain and fleeing police custody, he climbed a 60-foot electric transmission tower and jumped to his death. On a writ petition by his widow, the High Court held that the deceased was subjected to unconstitutional, degrading detention violating fundamental rights and D.K. Basu guidelines. The Court ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation to the widow (recoverable from the Sub-Inspector), directed the Superintendent of Police to register a murder case under Section 302 IPC and initiate disciplinary proceedings, and initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against the officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Makthal man of Karni village was apprehended on 9 May 2001 by Sub-Inspector and staff of Makthal Police Station as a suspect in his first wife death and held in unrecorded, illegal lock-up for five days without being produced before a magistrate. On 14 May 2001, while under severe mental strain and fleeing police custody, he climbed a 60-foot electric transmission tower and jumped to his death. On a writ petition by his widow, the High Court held that the deceased was subjected to unconstitutional, degrading detention violating fundamental rights and D.K. Basu guidelines. The Court ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation to the widow (recoverable from the Sub-Inspector), directed the Superintendent of Police to register a murder case under Section 302 IPC and initiate disciplinary proceedings, and initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against the officer.",
 "court_quote": "A Makthal man was subjected to unreasonable inhuman and degrading pre-trial and pre-remand detention which is ex facie unconstitutional.",
 "court_quote_para": "44",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 50,000 compensation under Art. 226 for illegal 5-day lock-up preceding detainee death, ordered s.302 FIR and departmental action.",
 "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 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": "2003-01-29",
   "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 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2003 (2) ALD 49",
   "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1786570/",
   "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-13"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "TELANG-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}