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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0472",
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 "display_title": "Karur Woman v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Karur Woman v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Karur",
 "district_at_time": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "city_town": "Karur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Karur Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Karur Woman v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 13577 of 1996",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "D. Murugesan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-10-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "1995-03-23",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "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",
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Karur Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "sentence_reduced_only",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Karur Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 29,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Karur man, age 29"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 900000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/779868/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Justice D. Murugesan held that a Karur man died in police custody due to torture by SI of Karur police station and awarded Rs 9 lakh total just compensation (Rs 8 lakh balance after the Rs 1 lakh ex-gratia already paid), apportioned equally among the widow, two minor sons and mother, payable within one month. A Karur man was taken into custody at 5 a.m. on 23 March 1995 and beaten to death in the police van; the Sub-Collector Karur enquiry under PSO 145 found death solely due to torture by the SI and the post-mortem showed neurogenic shock from chest injuries. The State did not deny torture in its counter. The court held [name withheld] to have tortured and beaten the deceased to death and ordered Rs 9 lakh total compensation with departmental punishment; the related criminal case ended in acquittal with the State appeal pending, so no criminal conviction subsists on this record. The Court computed quantum on the motor-accident multiplier method (Rs 6,000/month income, multiplier 18), noting the SI's criminal prosecution had ended in acquittal with a State appeal pending.",
 "summary_verified": "Justice D. Murugesan held that a Karur man died in police custody due to torture by SI of Karur police station and awarded Rs 9 lakh total just compensation (Rs 8 lakh balance after the Rs 1 lakh ex-gratia already paid), apportioned equally among the widow, two minor sons and mother, payable within one month. A Karur man was taken into custody at 5 a.m. on 23 March 1995 and beaten to death in the police van; the Sub-Collector Karur enquiry under PSO 145 found death solely due to torture by the SI and the post-mortem showed neurogenic shock from chest injuries. The State did not deny torture in its counter. The Court computed quantum on the motor-accident multiplier method (Rs 6,000/month income, multiplier 18), noting the SI's criminal prosecution had ended in acquittal with a State appeal pending.",
 "court_quote": "The deceased [name withheld] died while he was in police custody and that too, due to harassment at the hands of the Sub Inspector of Police, Karur Police Station.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC held a Karur man tortured to death by Karur SI; Rs 9L total compensation (Rs 8L balance).",
 "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": "2003-10-29",
   "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 900,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 13577 of 1996",
   "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",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/779868/",
   "link_checked": null
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  "basis": null
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SOUTH-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}