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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0026",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0837",
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 "display_title": "Paramakudi Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Paramakudi Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Ramanathapuram",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Paramakudi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Paramakudi Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Paramakudi Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Crl.O.P. No. 3715 of 2004",
 "citation": "LAWS(MAD)-2008-9-249",
 "judges": [
  "K. N. Basha"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-09-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "2002-12-01",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "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": [
  "CrPC 482",
  "IPC 306",
  "IPC 454",
  "IPC 380",
  "CrPC 174",
  "Constitution Art 21"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Paramakudi Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Paramakudi Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Paramakudi Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:unclear",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Paramakudi Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Paramakudi woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/11060/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=218002901300&title=henri-tiphagne-vs-state-of-tamilnadu"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Paramakudi woman, a domestic worker taken into Paramakudi police custody for interrogation in a theft case (Cr. No. 455/2002), was found hanging at the wireless tower behind the station on 1 December 2002; the post-mortem showed ante-mortem injuries and the DSPs own counter regarded it as a custodial death. The RDO enquiry under PSO 151 found fault but led only to a Section 306 IPC private complaint (S.C. No. 105/2007). The court held the sequence and medical evidence revealed tell-tale custodial violence, expressed displeasure at the handling, stayed the sessions trial, directed a DSP-led CB-CID reinvestigation with final report in six months, and ordered Rs.3 lakhs compensation to the husband and daughter within four weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Paramakudi woman, a domestic worker taken into Paramakudi police custody for interrogation in a theft case (Cr. No. 455/2002), was found hanging at the wireless tower behind the station on 1 December 2002; the post-mortem showed ante-mortem injuries and the DSPs own counter regarded it as a custodial death. The RDO enquiry under PSO 151 found fault but led only to a Section 306 IPC private complaint (S.C. No. 105/2007). The court held the sequence and medical evidence revealed tell-tale custodial violence, expressed displeasure at the handling, stayed the sessions trial, directed a DSP-led CB-CID reinvestigation with final report in six months, and ordered Rs.3 lakhs compensation to the husband and daughter within four weeks.",
 "court_quote": "The sequence of events in respect of this case and the perusal of the medical evidence, viz., the Postmortem Certificate reveals the tell-tale of the custodial violence committed on the poor victim.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC (K.N. Basha, J.) disposed Crl.O.P. 3715/2004: prima facie custodial violence disclosed; Rs.3L compensation plus CB-CID reinvestigation ordered.",
 "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": "2008-09-06",
   "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 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "LAWS(MAD)-2008-9-249",
   "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": [
    "compensation_inr"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-38-010",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}