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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0027",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0835",
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 "display_title": "Tiruchirappalli Man v. State of Tamil Nadu \\& Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Tiruchirappalli Man v. State of Tamil Nadu \\& Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Tiruchirappalli Man v. State of Tamil Nadu \\& Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 17837 of 2008",
 "citation": "MANU/TN/0425/2010",
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-04-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2008-01-04",
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (Vigilance)",
   "unit": "Vigilance",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (Vigilance), Vigilance"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tiruchirappalli man"
  }
 ],
 "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://www.legalindia.com/judgments/prabavathy-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-april-2010",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/287052/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Tiruchirappalli man, a retired Fire Officer, was picked up on 4 January 2008 and illegally detained at Edamalaipattiputhur police station, where he was beaten with lathis with his hands tied by a group led by DSP (Vigilance) [name withheld]. An FIR was registered only on 6 January 2008 before remand; the jail doctor recorded contusions on both hands at admission. He was hospitalised on 12 January 2008 and died on 22 January 2008. The court held the illegal arrest without D.K. Basu compliance and the lock-up torture proved by the jail admission record, accident register and hospital history sheet, and directed the State to pay Rs.5 lakhs within eight weeks, declining recovery from officers since the Government had dropped further action on the RDO report. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Tiruchirappalli man, a retired Fire Officer, was picked up on 4 January 2008 and illegally detained at Edamalaipattiputhur police station, where he was beaten with lathis with his hands tied by a group led by DSP (Vigilance) [name withheld]. An FIR was registered only on 6 January 2008 before remand; the jail doctor recorded contusions on both hands at admission. He was hospitalised on 12 January 2008 and died on 22 January 2008. The court held the illegal arrest without D.K. Basu compliance and the lock-up torture proved by the jail admission record, accident register and hospital history sheet, and directed the State to pay Rs.5 lakhs within eight weeks, declining recovery from officers since the Government had dropped further action on the RDO report.",
 "court_quote": "This Court is of the view that the petitioner has made out a strong case regarding the illegal arrest of her husband and the subsequent torture in the police lock-up before the admission to Central Prison. Moreover, the petitioner's husband was arrested without following the guidelines laid down in D.K.Basu case.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC (K. Chandru, J.) allowed W.P. 17837/2008: illegal arrest/detention and lock-up torture proved; Rs.5L compensation ordered.",
 "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": "2010-04-23",
   "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": "MANU/TN/0425/2010",
   "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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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-38-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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