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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0012",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0089",
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 "display_title": "Pondi Man v. State of Chhattisgarh and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pondi Man v. State of Chhattisgarh and Ors.",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Koriya",
 "district_at_time": "Surguja",
 "city_town": "Pondi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pondi Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pondi Man v. State of Chhattisgarh and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 5703 of 2012",
 "citation": "(2012) 8 SCC 1; AIR 2012 SC 2573",
 "judges": [
  "Dipak Misra",
  "K. S. Radhakrishnan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-08-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1992-09-24",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "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 Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 32"
 ],
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   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Pondi Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "display": "Station House Officer, Pondi Police Station"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Pondi Police Station"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pondi 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/24661153/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court held that the appellant, an Ayurvedic doctor taken to Pondi Police Station on 24 September 1992 instead of Baikunthpur Jail, was abused, assaulted and photographed holding a self-humiliating placard that the police then circulated. The Court found, as the High Court had, that he suffered physical and mental torture in custody in violation of Article 21. It set aside the High Court direction requiring a fresh representation after 19 years and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation. The Court directed payment within six weeks, recoverable from the erring officers in equal shares from their salaries. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held that the appellant, an Ayurvedic doctor taken to Pondi Police Station on 24 September 1992 instead of Baikunthpur Jail, was abused, assaulted and photographed holding a self-humiliating placard that the police then circulated. The Court found, as the High Court had, that he suffered physical and mental torture in custody in violation of Article 21. It set aside the High Court direction requiring a fresh representation after 19 years and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation. The Court directed payment within six weeks, recoverable from the erring officers in equal shares from their salaries.",
 "court_quote": "A sum of Rs.5.00 lacs (Rupees five lacs only) should be granted towards compensation to the appellant.",
 "court_quote_para": "46",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC held custodial torture proved; Rs 5 lakh compensation recoverable from officers.",
 "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": "2012-08-03",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2012) 8 SCC 1; AIR 2012 SC 2573",
   "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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  "basis": null
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 "merged_case_id": "CHHATT-019",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}