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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0357",
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 "display_title": "Tiruvannamalai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu",
 "display_title_redacted": "Tiruvannamalai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruvannamalai",
 "district_at_time": "Tiruvannamalai-Sambuvarayar",
 "city_town": "Tiruvannamalai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Tiruvannamalai Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Tiruvannamalai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu",
 "case_number": "W.A. No. 1018/2006 (against W.P. No. 22366/1993)",
 "citation": "(2008) 3 MLJ 167",
 "judges": [
  "Elipe Dharma Rao",
  "S.R. Singharavelu"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-02-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1993-09-11",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": null,
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit_note": "posting not stated; petitioner alleged Tiruvannamalai PS (para 2), G.O. finding mentions Veraiyur PS personnel (para 5)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:named_only",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.06,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tiruvannamalai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1962211/",
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court allowed the writ appeal of Rajammal, widow of pawn broker a Tiruvannamalai man, who was picked up by a Tiruvannamalai police party on 11 September 1993, died the same day from police excesses, and whose body was dumped in the Thachambattu Reserve Forest. Treating the custodial death as established and noting the State had sanctioned criminal prosecution of the officers (C.C. No. 1514 of 2000 before the Judicial Magistrate, Tiruvannamalai), the Court held compensation against the State the appropriate remedy for the established infringement of Article 21. Having regard to the widow large family of six children and financial distress, it enhanced the single judge award from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh as prayed for, relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Shyamsunder Trivedi on custodial violence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court allowed the writ appeal of Rajammal, widow of pawn broker a Tiruvannamalai man, who was picked up by a Tiruvannamalai police party on 11 September 1993, died the same day from police excesses, and whose body was dumped in the Thachambattu Reserve Forest. Treating the custodial death as established and noting the State had sanctioned criminal prosecution of the officers (C.C. No. 1514 of 2000 before the Judicial Magistrate, Tiruvannamalai), the Court held compensation against the State the appropriate remedy for the established infringement of Article 21. Having regard to the widow large family of six children and financial distress, it enhanced the single judge award from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh as prayed for, relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Shyamsunder Trivedi on custodial violence.",
 "court_quote": "from the said G.O. it is clear that the husband of the petitioner died due to the torture by the police personnel of Veraiyur Police Station and the said conclusion of the Government is sufficient for awarding compensation.",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras High Court Division Bench allowed writ appeal and enhanced compensation from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh for the custodial death of a Tiruvannamalai man at Tiruvannamalai.",
 "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": "2008-02-05",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2008) 3 MLJ 167",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "officers"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1962211/",
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  }
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}