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 "display_title": "Pallavaram Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
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 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chengalpattu",
 "district_at_time": "Kancheepuram",
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 "case_title": "Pallavaram Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 15229 of 1999",
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 "incident_date": "1993-06-20",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pallavaram man"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Justice K. Chandru held that mason a Pallavaram man, picked up on 20.06.1993 over alleged illicit liquor, was tortured to death in Pallavaram police custody and his body returned to his widow for burial on 23.06.1993. The Court noted the State itself had found policemen guilty yet let them off with minor punishments, which it condemned. It awarded Rs.5 lakh compensation to the widow payable within four weeks with a compliance report, and directed the State to proceed against the guilty officers for violating constitutional safeguards, recovering the amount from their salaries if necessary. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Justice K. Chandru held that mason a Pallavaram man, picked up on 20.06.1993 over alleged illicit liquor, was tortured to death in Pallavaram police custody and his body returned to his widow for burial on 23.06.1993. The Court noted the State itself had found policemen guilty yet let them off with minor punishments, which it condemned. It awarded Rs.5 lakh compensation to the widow payable within four weeks with a compliance report, and directed the State to proceed against the guilty officers for violating constitutional safeguards, recovering the amount from their salaries if necessary.",
 "court_quote": "Since the policemen who were found guilty even by the State have been let out with minor punishments, the action of the State is highly condemnable.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; custodial torture-death finding with Rs.5L compensation + action vs officers.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2008-11-05",
   "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": "W.P. No. 15229 of 1999",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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",
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  }
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