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 "record_id": "CW-2005-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0814",
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 "display_title": "Ernakulam Woman vs State of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ernakulam Woman vs State of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Ernakulam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ernakulam (Pulleppady)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "case_title": "Ernakulam Woman vs State of Kerala",
 "case_number": "O.P. No. 11681 of 1997",
 "citation": "(2005) 3 Ker LJ 404; AIR 2006 (NOC) 238 (Ker); 2006 Cri LJ 59",
 "judges": [
  "A.K. Basheer J."
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 "judgment_date": "2005-07-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": "1997-05-24",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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   "unit": "Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam"
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   "rank": "Head Constable (woman)",
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   "display": "Head Constable (woman), Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Ernakulam woman"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1530485/",
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 "summary": "The Kerala High Court (A.K. Basheer, J.) allowed the writ petition, holding that Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam illegally detained young housewife an Ernakulam woman for about 80 hours from 24 to 27 May 1997 without registering any crime, producing her before a Magistrate, or effecting an arrest, and lodged her against her will in the Palluruthy Relief Settlement among sickly and old destitutes. The Court held the detention violated her dignity and personal liberty and inflicted mental torture more baneful than physical torture, calling the police action reprehensible and liable to exemplary punishment. It directed the State to pay Rs.50,000 with 8% interest from 24 May 1997 within two months, citing D.K. Basu, Rudul Sah, Nilabati Behera and Saheli on public-law compensation. The individual police personnel are not named in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Kerala High Court (A.K. Basheer, J.) allowed the writ petition, holding that Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam illegally detained young housewife an Ernakulam woman for about 80 hours from 24 to 27 May 1997 without registering any crime, producing her before a Magistrate, or effecting an arrest, and lodged her against her will in the Palluruthy Relief Settlement among sickly and old destitutes. The Court held the detention violated her dignity and personal liberty and inflicted mental torture more baneful than physical torture, calling the police action reprehensible and liable to exemplary punishment. It directed the State to pay Rs.50,000 with 8% interest from 24 May 1997 within two months, citing D.K. Basu, Rudul Sah, Nilabati Behera and Saheli on public-law compensation. The individual police personnel are not named in the judgment.",
 "court_quote": "I have no hesitation to hold that the action of the Police personnel concerned is not only reprehensible but is also liable to be visited with exemplary punishment.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "O.P. allowed; 80-hour illegal detention and mental torture found; Rs.50,000 with 8% interest awarded.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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 "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"
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2005-07-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2005) 3 Ker LJ 404; AIR 2006 (NOC) 238 (Ker); 2006 Cri LJ 59",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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",
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-30-003",
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 "service": "police",
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