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 "record_id": "CW-2007-0027",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1235",
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 "display_title": "Pooyappally Man vs Pooyappally Man",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pooyappally Man vs Pooyappally Man",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pooyappally",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pooyappally Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pooyappally Man vs Pooyappally Man",
 "case_number": "Crl.R.P. No. 20 of 1999",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "J.B. Koshy"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2007-07-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "1993-06-01",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 323"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Pooyappally Police Station, Kollam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "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": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Pooyappally Police Station, Kollam"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pooyappally man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1286096/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 1 June 1993, auto-rickshaw driver [name withheld] was taken to Pooyappally police station after failing to stop instantly at a constable's signal, and inside the station constable slapped him on the left ear, causing bleeding and hearing loss that needed inpatient ENT treatment till 11 June 1993. The driver filed a private complaint, and the trial and appellate courts convicted the constable under Section 323 IPC with release on probation. The Kerala High Court held the complainant's version was supported by an independent occurrence witness and medical evidence, and dismissed the revision. The court confirmed the conviction, the probation release and Rs.1,000 compensation, remarking the appellate court had taken a very lenient view. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 1 June 1993, auto-rickshaw driver [name withheld] was taken to Pooyappally police station after failing to stop instantly at a constable's signal, and inside the station constable slapped him on the left ear, causing bleeding and hearing loss that needed inpatient ENT treatment till 11 June 1993. The driver filed a private complaint, and the trial and appellate courts convicted the constable under Section 323 IPC with release on probation. The Kerala High Court held the complainant's version was supported by an independent occurrence witness and medical evidence, and dismissed the revision. The court confirmed the conviction, the probation release and Rs.1,000 compensation, remarking the appellate court had taken a very lenient view.",
 "court_quote": "Both courts concurrently found that the version of PW1, supported by PW2, eye witness, and corroborated by medical evidence was correct. I see no ground to interfere in the same in the revisional jurisdiction and the conviction is confirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC order verified on Indian Kanoon; Section 323 conviction of on-duty constable for station-house assault confirmed.",
 "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 torture",
   "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": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Crl.R.P. No. 20 of 1999",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2007-07-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Crl.R.P. No. 20 of 1999",
   "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/1286096/",
   "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": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-66-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}