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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0829",
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 "display_title": "Courtalam Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Courtalam Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tenkasi",
 "district_at_time": "Tirunelveli",
 "city_town": "Courtalam",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Courtalam Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 29074 of 2007",
 "citation": "(2008) 08 MAD CK 0069",
 "judges": [
  "P.K. Misra",
  "K. Kannan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-08-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "2007-07-26",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
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   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Courtalam/Tenkasi police (respondents 4-15)",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Courtalam/Tenkasi police (respondents 4-15)"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Courtalam man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Courtalam man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Courtalam man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Courtalam man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 4,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 40000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/66630/chairman-bar-council-of-tamil-nadu-appellant-hash-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others-respondent/",
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court (P.K. Misra and K. Kannan, JJ.) allowed the writ petition filed by the Chairman, Bar Council of Tamil Nadu for four Tuticorin advocates, a Courtalam man, a Courtalam man, a Courtalam man and a Courtalam man, who were rounded up at Courtalam in the early hours of 26 July 2007, detained at the police station and produced before the Magistrate at 11.30 a.m. with stick-mark injuries. Rejecting the police version of a public scuffle with a masseur, the court held the cane injuries proved assault in admitted police custody and that the State was vicariously liable. It awarded Rs.10,000 to each of the four advocates (Rs.40,000 total), leaving rival criminal complaints to trial. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court (P.K. Misra and K. Kannan, JJ.) allowed the writ petition filed by the Chairman, Bar Council of Tamil Nadu for four Tuticorin advocates, a Courtalam man, a Courtalam man, a Courtalam man and a Courtalam man, who were rounded up at Courtalam in the early hours of 26 July 2007, detained at the police station and produced before the Magistrate at 11.30 a.m. with stick-mark injuries. Rejecting the police version of a public scuffle with a masseur, the court held the cane injuries proved assault in admitted police custody and that the State was vicariously liable. It awarded Rs.10,000 to each of the four advocates (Rs.40,000 total), leaving rival criminal complaints to trial.",
 "court_quote": "The inference is obvious. It is the police who were responsible for the injuries on lawyers.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; police held responsible for custodial assault on 4 advocates; Rs.10,000 each.",
 "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": "2008-08-28",
   "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 40,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2008) 08 MAD CK 0069",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
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