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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0465",
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 "display_title": "Madurai Man v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Madurai Man v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Madurai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Madurai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Keeraithurai PS",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Madurai Man v. State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No. 5272 of 2006",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Manikumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-08-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2004-12-04",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "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": [
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   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Keeraithurai PS, Madurai",
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   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.66,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Police Constable, Keeraithurai PS, Madurai"
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   "unit": "Keeraithurai PS, Madurai",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Keeraithurai PS, Madurai"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Madurai man, age 26"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1109401/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) allowed Sangaiyya's writ for his 26-year-old son's custodial death at Keeraithurai police station in December 2004 after being picked up for drinking near a liquor shop. The Court awarded Rs 5 lakh to the legal heirs, structured as Rs 1 lakh each to the father and widow and Rs 3 lakh in fixed deposit for the minor children. It noted the Government had already ordered prosecution and departmental action against the responsible personnel. Recovery of the compensation from their salaries was directed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) allowed Sangaiyya's writ for his 26-year-old son's custodial death at Keeraithurai police station in December 2004 after being picked up for drinking near a liquor shop. The Court awarded Rs 5 lakh to the legal heirs, structured as Rs 1 lakh each to the father and widow and Rs 3 lakh in fixed deposit for the minor children. It noted the Government had already ordered prosecution and departmental action against the responsible personnel. Recovery of the compensation from their salaries was directed.",
 "court_quote": "The said amount is further directed to be recovered from the salary of the police personnel, who were prima facie found by the government to be responsible for the death.",
 "court_quote_para": "45",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 5L with recovery from salaries of responsible personnel.",
 "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": "2010-08-06",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(MD) No. 5272 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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1109401/",
   "link_checked": null
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-041",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}