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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0030",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1285",
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 "display_title": "Ayilpatty Man vs Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ayilpatty Man vs Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range and Another",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Salem",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ayilpatty",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ayilpatty Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ayilpatty Man vs Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range and Another",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.36278 of 2006",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2009-10-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "1994-11-15",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable Grade I",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Ayilpatty Police Station, Salem District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police Constable Grade I, Ayilpatty Police Station, Salem District"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ayilpatty man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ayilpatty man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ayilpatty man"
  }
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1449034/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Grade-I Constable challenged the penalty of reduction in pay by two stages for two years with cumulative effect for stripping three schoolboys naked and beating them with a stick at Ayilpatty police station in November 1994. The court examined the PSO 145 enquiry, medical evidence, and hospital records showing the boys' admission as inpatients, and found the evidence sufficient to hold him guilty despite later retractions. The court held that custodial torture strikes at Article 21 and that the penalty was commensurate with the misconduct. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Grade-I Constable challenged the penalty of reduction in pay by two stages for two years with cumulative effect for stripping three schoolboys naked and beating them with a stick at Ayilpatty police station in November 1994. The court examined the PSO 145 enquiry, medical evidence, and hospital records showing the boys' admission as inpatients, and found the evidence sufficient to hold him guilty despite later retractions. The court held that custodial torture strikes at Article 21 and that the penalty was commensurate with the misconduct. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs.",
 "court_quote": "This Court is fully satisfied that the evidence recorded by the authorities are sufficient to hold the petitioner guilty.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed constable's writ; upheld pay-reduction penalty for stripping and beating three schoolboys.",
 "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": "2009-10-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "W.P. No.36278 of 2006",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-85-014",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}