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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0214",
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 "display_title": "S. M. vs State Of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "S. M. vs State Of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Pathanamthitta",
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 "city_town": "Mallappally",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Keezhvaipur Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "S. M. vs State Of Kerala",
 "case_number": "O.P. No. 26679 of 2002",
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 "judges": [
  "A.K. Basheer"
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 "judgment_date": "2008-02-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1999-06-30",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Article 21",
  "Constitution of India Article 226"
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   "display": "Police Constable, Keezhvaipur Police Station"
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mallappally man, age 26",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Mallappally woman",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": 3,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mallappally boy, age 3",
   "name": null
  }
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  {
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a woman"
  },
  {
   "age": 3,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 3-year-old boy"
  }
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 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 3,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/808112/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. a man was taken into illegal police custody on June 29, 1999, detained for over 24 hours at Keezhvaipur Police Station without registration of any case, and died of fatal internal abdominal injuries on June 30, 1999. The Kerala High Court held that the police's version was fabricated to conceal custodial torture, establishing a clear violation of Article 21 of the Constitution. Holding the State tortiously liable for the acts of its police officers, the High Court directed payment of Rs. 5,00,000 compensation with 9% interest to the victim's widow and minor son, and transferred the criminal investigation into the custodial death to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Mohanan was taken into illegal police custody on June 29, 1999, detained for over 24 hours at Keezhvaipur Police Station without registration of any case, and died of fatal internal abdominal injuries on June 30, 1999. The Kerala High Court held that the police's version was fabricated to conceal custodial torture, establishing a clear violation of Article 21 of the Constitution. Holding the State tortiously liable for the acts of its police officers, the High Court directed payment of Rs. 5,00,000 compensation with 9% interest to the victim's widow and minor son, and transferred the criminal investigation into the custodial death to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).",
 "court_quote": "UNVERIFIED — stated para-39 Article-21 quote absent from accessible judgment text (paras 32-40 missing from source). Replace with verified para-28 text: 'there had been a concerted effort on the part of the Police to fabricate or create documents apparently in a bid to camouflage or cover up the real incident.'",
 "court_quote_para": "39",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala High Court found custodial torture and death of Mohanan in illegal police custody, awarding Rs. 5 lakh compensation and transferring probe to CBI.",
 "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": "2008-02-13",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "O.P. No. 26679 of 2002",
   "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": [
    "court_quote"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/808112/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "KERALA-014",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}