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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0021",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1283",
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 "display_title": "Nagapattinam Man vs Superintendent of Police, Nagapattinam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Nagapattinam Man vs Superintendent of Police, Nagapattinam and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Nagapattinam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Nagapattinam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Nagapattinam Town Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Nagapattinam Man vs Superintendent of Police, Nagapattinam and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.77 of 2010",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
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 "judgment_date": "2010-01-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2008-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "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": [
  "CrPC s.59",
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Nagapattinam Town Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Nagapattinam Town Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Nagapattinam Town Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Head Constable, Nagapattinam Town Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Nagapattinam man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 513195,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1902024/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector challenged the Government order recovering Rs.5,13,195 in equal shares from him and Head Constable toward compensation paid to the widow and minor children of a Nagapattinam man The court recalled that a Division Bench in habeas corpus proceedings had held both policemen responsible for a Nagapattinam man's illegal detention and consequent death, applying the last-seen principle to the missing detenu, and that the Supreme Court had dismissed the State's SLP. The court held that recovery of State-borne tort liability from the guilty officers' salaries was lawful. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector challenged the Government order recovering Rs.5,13,195 in equal shares from him and Head Constable toward compensation paid to the widow and minor children of a Nagapattinam man The court recalled that a Division Bench in habeas corpus proceedings had held both policemen responsible for a Nagapattinam man's illegal detention and consequent death, applying the last-seen principle to the missing detenu, and that the Supreme Court had dismissed the State's SLP. The court held that recovery of State-borne tort liability from the guilty officers' salaries was lawful. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs.",
 "court_quote": "In any event, when there is liability fixed on the State for payment of compensation, the petitioner, who was directly responsible for the State's liability to pay the amount, is also bound to make good the loss.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed SI's writ; upheld equal recovery of Rs.5,13,195 compensation for illegal detention and death of detenu.",
 "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": "2010-01-08",
   "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 513,195.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No.77 of 2010",
   "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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  {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-85-012",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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