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 "record_id": "CW-2007-0029",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1271",
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 "display_title": "Madurai Police Head Constable vs The Director General of Police and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Madurai Police Head Constable vs The Director General of Police and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Madurai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Madurai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Patrol Vehicle No.1, Madurai City Control Room",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Madurai Police Head Constable vs The Director General of Police and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No. 4024 of 2005",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
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 "judgment_date": "2007-10-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "2004-03-26",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory_display": "extortion",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Tamil Nadu Police State and Subordinate Service Rules R.3(b)"
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Patrol Vehicle No.1, Madurai City Control Room",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_risk": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Patrol Vehicle No.1, Madurai City Control Room"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Madurai resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Madurai resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Madurai resident"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 3,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/660710/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. On 26 March 2004, Head Constable, on patrol in Vehicle No.1 of the Madurai City Control Room, threatened the supervisor and salesmen of TASMAC Shop No.5135 and forced Rs.100 from them on the pretext the shop was open past licence hours. The Assistant Commissioner's Rule 3(b) enquiry held the charge proved and the Commissioner of Police, Madurai City, removed him from service on 19 August 2004; his appeal and revision were rejected. The Madurai Bench held the enquiry procedure suffered no infirmity and its conclusion was not perverse, so the bribery finding stood. The Court agreed the misconduct attracted only a major penalty but held removal disproportionate to 29 years of unblemished service, modifying it to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits and directing pension papers within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 26 March 2004, Head Constable, on patrol in Vehicle No.1 of the Madurai City Control Room, threatened the supervisor and salesmen of TASMAC Shop No.5135 and forced Rs.100 from them on the pretext the shop was open past licence hours. The Assistant Commissioner's Rule 3(b) enquiry held the charge proved and the Commissioner of Police, Madurai City, removed him from service on 19 August 2004; his appeal and revision were rejected. The Madurai Bench held the enquiry procedure suffered no infirmity and its conclusion was not perverse, so the bribery finding stood. The Court agreed the misconduct attracted only a major penalty but held removal disproportionate to 29 years of unblemished service, modifying it to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits and directing pension papers within eight weeks.",
 "court_quote": "This Court is of the view that while the petitioner's misconduct cannot be condoned and he must be imposed only with major penalty, but, however, considering the penalty now imposed, it is clear that it will result in serious consequences of not only depriving the petitioner his employment but also the very survival of the family will be in question.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Bribe-extortion finding against head constable sustained; removal modified to compulsory retirement (major penalty upheld).",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2007-10-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "W.P.(MD) No. 4024 of 2005",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-84-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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