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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0019",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0696",
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 "display_title": "Kerala Police personnel vs The State of Kerala (with Crl.R.P. No. 2924 of 2009)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kerala Police personnel vs The State of Kerala (with Crl.R.P. No. 2924 of 2009)",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kannur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kannur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kannur Town Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kerala Police personnel vs The State of Kerala (with Crl.R.P. No. 2924 of 2009)",
 "case_number": "Crl.R.P. Nos. 2924 and 3906 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "V. K. Mohanan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-09-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "1988-02-12",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 427"
 ],
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   "unit": "Kerala Police, Kannur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Kerala Police, Kannur"
  },
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Kerala Police, Kannur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kannur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 0,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/498073/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 12 February 1988, following critical reports against the SP Kannur, police picked up a Kannur man, Editor, Printer and Publisher of the evening daily Sudhinam, from Fort Road, Kannur, and confined him in the Kannur Town lock-up from 8.30 p.m. till production at 4.30 a.m. despite bailable offences and offered sureties; the same night police broke open the Sudhinam office and Jyothi Printing Press, dismantled machinery and posted a picket. The CBI charge-sheeted 12 police personnel; the trial court convicted four and the appellate court retained only the Sections 342 and 427 convictions of accused Nos.2 and 3. In revision the High Court held the detention was wrongful confinement and the search unjustified, dismissed both revisions, and confirmed imprisonment till rising of court with Rs.25,000 compensation each under Section 357(3) CrPC, while confirming acquittals on conspiracy and assault charges. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 12 February 1988, following critical reports against the SP Kannur, police picked up a Kannur man, Editor, Printer and Publisher of the evening daily Sudhinam, from Fort Road, Kannur, and confined him in the Kannur Town lock-up from 8.30 p.m. till production at 4.30 a.m. despite bailable offences and offered sureties; the same night police broke open the Sudhinam office and Jyothi Printing Press, dismantled machinery and posted a picket. The CBI charge-sheeted 12 police personnel; the trial court convicted four and the appellate court retained only the Sections 342 and 427 convictions of accused Nos.2 and 3. In revision the High Court held the detention was wrongful confinement and the search unjustified, dismissed both revisions, and confirmed imprisonment till rising of court with Rs.25,000 compensation each under Section 357(3) CrPC, while confirming acquittals on conspiracy and assault charges.",
 "court_quote": "I find no reason to interfere with the conviction recorded by both the trial court as well as the appellate court against the revision petitioners under Section 342 of I.P.C.",
 "court_quote_para": "98 (quote sits at end of para 98; '99. The next challenge...' follows)",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed both revisions; s.342/427 IPC convictions of two police officers with Rs.25,000 each compensation confirmed.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "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.R.P. Nos. 2924 and 3906 of 2009",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2010-09-16",
   "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.R.P. Nos. 2924 and 3906 of 2009",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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/498073/",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP11-001",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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