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 "display_title": "Sankarankoil Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
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 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tenkasi",
 "district_at_time": "Tirunelveli",
 "city_town": "Sankarankoil",
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 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Sankarankoil Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 11569 of 1999",
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  "K. Chandru, J."
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 "incident_date": "1998-09-16",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sankarankoil man"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/875091/",
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court ordered the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 2,00,000 as compensation for the custodial death of a Sankarankoil man inside the lockup of Sankarankoil Police Station on 16.09.1998. The deceased had been rounded up without arrest entries being recorded in the general diary, in direct breach of Article 22(1) of the Constitution and the Supreme Court's D.K. Basu guidelines. Justices P.K. Misra and K. Chandru held that the illegal arrest and total lack of care in preserving the detainee's life were sufficiently established to impose public law liability upon the State, irrespective of the RDO's preliminary finding of suicide by hanging. The Court directed disbursement of the compensation to the deceased's widow within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court ordered the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 2,00,000 as compensation for the custodial death of a Sankarankoil man inside the lockup of Sankarankoil Police Station on 16.09.1998. The deceased had been rounded up without arrest entries being recorded in the general diary, in direct breach of Article 22(1) of the Constitution and the Supreme Court's D.K. Basu guidelines. Justices P.K. Misra and K. Chandru held that the illegal arrest and total lack of care in preserving the detainee's life were sufficiently established to impose public law liability upon the State, irrespective of the RDO's preliminary finding of suicide by hanging. The Court directed disbursement of the compensation to the deceased's widow within eight weeks.",
 "court_quote": "the illegal arrest of Late a Sankarankoil man and lack of care in saving his life while in police custody are sufficiently proved and those findings established here are enough to order compensation by the State",
 "court_quote_para": "24",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation for lockup death of a Sankarankoil man following illegal arrest by Sankarankoil police.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
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   "date": "2009-03-14",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 11569 of 1999",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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)",
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