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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0033",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1284",
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 "display_title": "Chennai Man vs The Secretary to Government and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chennai Man vs The Secretary to Government and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chennai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chennai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "E-2 Royapettah Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chennai Man vs The Secretary to Government and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.12599 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
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 "judgment_date": "2009-11-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "1993-06-22",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Central Crime Branch, Chennai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Central Crime Branch, Chennai"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chennai man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 380000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1478506/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Inspector challenged the recovery of Rs.76,000 from his salary toward the Rs.3.8 lakh compensation paid to Tmt. Meena for the 1993 custodial death of her husband [name withheld] at the E-2 Royapettah lock-up. The court found that the earlier compensation order fixing joint tort responsibility on five policemen, with liberty to recover from them, had become final without appeal and after hearing him. The court held that neither his criminal acquittal nor the quashing of departmental proceedings could defeat the tort recovery. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Inspector challenged the recovery of Rs.76,000 from his salary toward the Rs.3.8 lakh compensation paid to Tmt. Meena for the 1993 custodial death of her husband [name withheld] at the E-2 Royapettah lock-up. The court found that the earlier compensation order fixing joint tort responsibility on five policemen, with liberty to recover from them, had become final without appeal and after hearing him. The court held that neither his criminal acquittal nor the quashing of departmental proceedings could defeat the tort recovery. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs.",
 "court_quote": "The payment of compensation arose out of a tort liability of the State in which the petitioner also had a joint responsibility in compensating for such tortious acts.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed Inspector's writ; upheld Rs.76,000 salary recovery toward Rs.3.8 lakh custodial-death compensation.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": [
  {
   "date": "2009-11-05",
   "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 380,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No.12599 of 2009",
   "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1478506/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-85-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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