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 "record_id": "CW-2006-0012",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0354",
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 "display_title": "Ramasamy vs State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ramasamy vs State",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Cuddalore",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kammapuram",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kammapuram Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Ramasamy vs State",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 735 & 738 of 2004 (with Crl.A. No. 668 of 2005)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "R. Balasubramanian",
  "A.C. Arumugaperumal Adityan"
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 "judgment_date": "2006-12-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2006,
 "incident_date": "1993-03-21",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 220",
  "IPC 218",
  "IPC 323"
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   "name": "Anthonysamy",
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   "name_public": "Anthonysamy",
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   "name": "Veerasamy",
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   "unit": "Kammapuram Police Station",
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.64,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.77,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Veerasamy",
   "display": "Veerasamy (Constable)"
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   "name": "Ramasamy",
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   "unit": "Kammapuram Police Station",
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   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.68,
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   "name_public": "Ramasamy",
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   "rank": "Inspector",
   "unit": "Kammapuram",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.69,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Kammapuram"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kammapuram man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165147/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/182869297/"
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court confirmed the murder convictions and life sentences (with Rs 2,000 fine) of Sub-Inspector Anthonysamy and Constable Veerasamy of Kammapuram Police Station for beating burglary suspect [name withheld] to death in the station on 21-22 March 1993, dumping his body on a road and passing the death off as an escape from custody. Relying on the evidence of the victim wife and a co-detenu, the Court held it proved beyond doubt that a Kammapuram man died in the station after a brutal assault by the two officers, and confirmed the allied convictions for wrongful confinement, extortion of confession by hurt, destruction of evidence and related offences while setting aside the conspiracy charge. A-3 Constable Ramasamy was convicted only under Section 323 IPC and admonished under Section 3 of the Probation of Offenders Act with no sentence, being acquitted of the graver charges with fines refunded; the life sentences in this judgment concern his co-accused. Constable Ramasamy was acquitted of the grave charges, convicted only under Section 323 IPC and admonished under the Probation of Offenders Act; Inspector accepted his fine-only conviction and the State appeal against the doctor acquittal was dismissed.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court confirmed the murder convictions and life sentences (with Rs 2,000 fine) of Sub-Inspector Anthonysamy and Constable Veerasamy of Kammapuram Police Station for beating burglary suspect [name withheld] to death in the station on 21-22 March 1993, dumping his body on a road and passing the death off as an escape from custody. Relying on the evidence of the victim wife and a co-detenu, the Court held it proved beyond doubt that a Kammapuram man died in the station after a brutal assault by the two officers, and confirmed the allied convictions for wrongful confinement, extortion of confession by hurt, destruction of evidence and related offences while setting aside the conspiracy charge. Constable Ramasamy was acquitted of the grave charges, convicted only under Section 323 IPC and admonished under the Probation of Offenders Act; Inspector accepted his fine-only conviction and the State appeal against the doctor acquittal was dismissed.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore the evidence of P.Ws.1 and 7 establish beyond doubt that a Kammapuram man definitely met his end in the police station itself after the brutal attack on him by A.1 and A.2.",
 "court_quote_para": "24",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras High Court confirmed life sentences of SI Anthonysamy and Constable Veerasamy for the custodial murder of a Kammapuram man; convicted Constable Ramasamy only under s.323 IPC and admonished him.",
 "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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 "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"
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   "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": "Crl.A. Nos. 735 & 738 of 2004 (with Crl.A. No. 668 of 2005)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2006-12-04",
   "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": "Crl.A. Nos. 735 & 738 of 2004 (with Crl.A. No. 668 of 2005)",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
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