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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0034",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Ettumanoor Police Deputy Superintendent of Police vs State of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ettumanoor Police Deputy Superintendent of Police vs State of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kottayam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ettumanoor",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "case_title": "Ettumanoor Police Deputy Superintendent of Police vs State of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 86/2006, 193/2006 and 1796/2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Balakrishnan Nair J.",
  "P. Bhavadasan J."
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 "judgment_date": "2009-12-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "2005-02-15",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 364",
  "IPC 120B"
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   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Malappuram (posting at relevant time)",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Malappuram (posting at relevant time)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ettumanoor man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1756335/",
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 "summary": "The Kerala High Court Division Bench (judgment by P. Bhavadasan, J.) dismissed the appeals of [name withheld], a serving Deputy Superintendent of Police, and a second accused against their life sentences imposed by the Sessions Court, Kottayam (S.C. No. 145/2005) for the gruesome murder of an Ettumanoor man, a former driver, on 15 February 2005, and dismissed the State appeal seeking the death sentence. The Court held the prosecution proved murder by the guardian of law with hired accomplices over a personal grudge, with the body dismembered after death. It held that although a police officer crime must normally be viewed very seriously, the case fell outside the rarest-of-rare category, so capital punishment was refused. The Supreme Court dismissed [name withheld] further appeal (Crl.A. No. 1774/2010) on 4 February 2013, leaving the life sentence final. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Kerala High Court Division Bench (judgment by P. Bhavadasan, J.) dismissed the appeals of [name withheld], a serving Deputy Superintendent of Police, and a second accused against their life sentences imposed by the Sessions Court, Kottayam (S.C. No. 145/2005) for the gruesome murder of an Ettumanoor man, a former driver, on 15 February 2005, and dismissed the State appeal seeking the death sentence. The Court held the prosecution proved murder by the guardian of law with hired accomplices over a personal grudge, with the body dismembered after death. It held that although a police officer crime must normally be viewed very seriously, the case fell outside the rarest-of-rare category, so capital punishment was refused. The Supreme Court dismissed [name withheld] further appeal (Crl.A. No. 1774/2010) on 4 February 2013, leaving the life sentence final.",
 "court_quote": "The case from which these appeals arise reveals a gruesome and horrendous murder by the guardian of law along with four others, three of whom are mercenaries.",
 "court_quote_para": "1",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "DB confirmed life sentences of DySP [name withheld] and co-accused for murder; State death-sentence appeal dismissed.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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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   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 86/2006, 193/2006 and 1796/2007",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2009-12-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 86/2006, 193/2006 and 1796/2007",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-30-001",
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