{
 "record_id": "CW-2012-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0365",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Madurai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Madurai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Madurai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Madurai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Samayanallur Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Madurai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 15794 of 2003",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Manikumar, J."
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-07-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2003-04-17",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Article 21",
  "Constitution of India Article 226",
  "IPC 324",
  "Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 s.30"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "M. Kalifulla",
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Samayanallur Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.2,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.88,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "M. Kalifulla",
   "display": "M. Kalifulla (Inspector of Police)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Madurai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110762246/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/custodial-torture-madras-hc-upholds-the-decision-of-compensation-151953"
 ],
 "summary": "The Madras High Court held that Inspector M. Kalifulla of Samayanallur Police Station, Madurai, illegally detained petitioner [name withheld] from 17.04.2003 to 21.04.2003 and subjected him to third-degree methods and brutal custodial assault resulting in a fractured right thumb and severe physical injuries. Justice S. Manikumar observed that custodians of law and order must not become depredators of civil liberties, finding that police violence violated the petitioner's fundamental right to life and dignity under Article 21. On principles of vicarious liability, the Court directed the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 1,00,000 as compensation to the victim, with liberty to recover the entire sum from the delinquent officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court held that Inspector M. Kalifulla of Samayanallur Police Station, Madurai, illegally detained petitioner [name withheld] from 17.04.2003 to 21.04.2003 and subjected him to third-degree methods and brutal custodial assault resulting in a fractured right thumb and severe physical injuries. Justice S. Manikumar observed that custodians of law and order must not become depredators of civil liberties, finding that police violence violated the petitioner's fundamental right to life and dignity under Article 21. On principles of vicarious liability, the Court directed the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 1,00,000 as compensation to the victim, with liberty to recover the entire sum from the delinquent officer.",
 "court_quote": "As the 5th respondent has been found to have committed the act of illegal detention and caused injuries, he is liable to pay the amount to the petitioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "57",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court held police inspector guilty of illegal detention and custodial torture, awarding Rs 1,00,000 compensation recoverable from the officer.",
 "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 torture",
   "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": "2012-07-02",
   "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 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 15794 of 2003",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110762246/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/custodial-torture-madras-hc-upholds-the-decision-of-compensation-151953",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-001",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}