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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0028",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1279",
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 "display_title": "Avadi Woman vs The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Avadi Woman vs The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruvallur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Avadi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi; GC, CRPF, Avadi",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Avadi Woman vs The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.14781 of 2004",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
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 "judgment_date": "2010-04-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "2004-01-23",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "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": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "CrPC s.160"
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   "rank": "Subedar Major (Inspector of Police)",
   "unit": "GC, CRPF, Avadi, Chennai",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "unit": "Muthapudhupet, Incharge F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi",
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   "display": "Inspector of Police, Muthapudhupet, Incharge F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Muthapudhupet, F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "display": "Head Constable, Muthapudhupet, F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi"
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Avadi woman"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Avadi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1841762/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. On the night of 23.1.2004, local police led by Inspector with CRPF men led by Subedar raided the quarters of widower an Avadi man during a birthday dinner, abused and assaulted him, and dragged petitioner [name withheld], a postgraduate teacher, by her hair into a jeep, outraging her modesty. Both families with children were kept at F2 Tank Factory Police Station till 2 a.m. and freed without enquiry, and the incident was widely published, causing the petitioner public disgrace. The Court held the CrPC does not permit taking a woman to a police station at midnight for questioning and that moral policing and snooping into private affairs are unlawful. It directed CRPF respondents 2 and 3 to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On the night of 23.1.2004, local police led by Inspector with CRPF men led by Subedar raided the quarters of widower an Avadi man during a birthday dinner, abused and assaulted him, and dragged petitioner [name withheld], a postgraduate teacher, by her hair into a jeep, outraging her modesty. Both families with children were kept at F2 Tank Factory Police Station till 2 a.m. and freed without enquiry, and the incident was widely published, causing the petitioner public disgrace. The Court held the CrPC does not permit taking a woman to a police station at midnight for questioning and that moral policing and snooping into private affairs are unlawful. It directed CRPF respondents 2 and 3 to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation within eight weeks.",
 "court_quote": "That there was a complaint from neighbours was not borne out by records and the assault and outraging the modesty of the petitioner and public humiliation heaped on her is not denied by any counter affidavit either by the State Police and in the counter affidavit by the other respondents.",
 "court_quote_para": "33",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held midnight raid, assault, modesty outrage and illegal detention proved; Rs.5 lakh compensation.",
 "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": [
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   "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2010-04-27",
   "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. No.14781 of 2004",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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": "GAP3-85-008",
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 "service": "police",
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