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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0039",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1277",
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 "display_title": "Puliyangudi Man vs The Government of Tamil Nadu and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Puliyangudi Man vs The Government of Tamil Nadu and Another",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tenkasi",
 "district_at_time": "Tirunelveli",
 "city_town": "Puliyangudi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Puliyangudi Police Station lock-up (Cr.No.277 of 1998)",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Puliyangudi Man vs The Government of Tamil Nadu and Another",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No.4516 of 2010 and M.P.(MD) No.2 of 2010",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-11-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "1998-09-16",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Grade I Police Constable",
   "unit": "Sankarankoil Police Station (on duty at Puliyangudi Police Station lock-up)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Grade I Police Constable, Sankarankoil Police Station (on duty at Puliyangudi Police Station lock-up)"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Puliyangudi man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1006682/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Accused a Puliyangudi man (Puliyangudi PS Cr.No.277 of 1998) hanged himself in the Puliyangudi lock-up on 16.09.1998 using his lungi as a noose. Grade I Constable faced departmental charges of letting the detainee keep the lungi, failing lock-up watch, fleeing after seeing him struggle, keeping no detention record and creating a false document, all held proved in PR No.125 of 2000. A Division Bench had ordered Rs.2 lakh compensation to widow [name withheld] (W.P. No.11569 of 1999, 2009 (3) MLJ 702), and the State fixed recovery shares on four policemen including Rs.33,684 on the petitioner. The Court held the petitioner had already suffered a penalty on the same score, the State was right in ordering recovery, and dismissed the writ. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Accused a Puliyangudi man (Puliyangudi PS Cr.No.277 of 1998) hanged himself in the Puliyangudi lock-up on 16.09.1998 using his lungi as a noose. Grade I Constable faced departmental charges of letting the detainee keep the lungi, failing lock-up watch, fleeing after seeing him struggle, keeping no detention record and creating a false document, all held proved in PR No.125 of 2000. A Division Bench had ordered Rs.2 lakh compensation to widow [name withheld] (W.P. No.11569 of 1999, 2009 (3) MLJ 702), and the State fixed recovery shares on four policemen including Rs.33,684 on the petitioner. The Court held the petitioner had already suffered a penalty on the same score, the State was right in ordering recovery, and dismissed the writ.",
 "court_quote": "In the present case, the division bench of this court had found that all policemen including the petitioner were guilty and liability was fixed on the State to pay the sum of Rs.2 lakhs. Hence the State is bound to give effect to the order of this court.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld recovery of lock-up-death compensation share from negligent constable (charges proved).",
 "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": "2010-11-24",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(MD) No.4516 of 2010 and M.P.(MD) No.2 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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1006682/",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-85-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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