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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Njarackal Man vs State Of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Njarackal Man vs State Of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Ernakulam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Njarackal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Njarackal Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Njarackal Man vs State Of Kerala",
 "case_number": "WP(C) No. 9963 of 2012",
 "citation": "2013 (1) KLT 103",
 "judges": [
  "K. M. Joseph",
  "K. Harilal"
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 "judgment_date": "2012-12-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2012-04-14",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art 21",
  "Constitution Art 226"
 ],
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "District Crime Records Bureau, Aluva Rural",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Home Guard",
   "unit": "Njarackal Police Station",
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    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "key2": "no",
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   "key2_union": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Home Guard, Njarackal Police Station"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 25,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Njarackal man, age 25"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46257919/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Njarackal man, a 25-year-old lawyer returning home by motorcycle after a second-show film on the night of 14 April 2012, was intercepted by the Njarackal police vehicle-check squad on the Vypin-Munambam highway and struck in the face, losing five teeth; the respondents admitted the injury and loss of teeth but disputed the manner of causing it. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held the admitted facts amounted to infringement of his right to life and personal liberty at the hands of respondents 5 to 7 by abuse of power. The court awarded Rs 50,000 exemplary compensation payable by the State within one month, with liberty to recover from the three officers after due enquiry, leaving criminal liability in Crime 644/2012 to the criminal court. The listed officer of Njarackal police station is a Home Guard, not a member of the police force; the court recorded his admitted lathi blow. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Njarackal man, a 25-year-old lawyer returning home by motorcycle after a second-show film on the night of 14 April 2012, was intercepted by the Njarackal police vehicle-check squad on the Vypin-Munambam highway and struck in the face, losing five teeth; the respondents admitted the injury and loss of teeth but disputed the manner of causing it. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held the admitted facts amounted to infringement of his right to life and personal liberty at the hands of respondents 5 to 7 by abuse of power. The court awarded Rs 50,000 exemplary compensation payable by the State within one month, with liberty to recover from the three officers after due enquiry, leaving criminal liability in Crime 644/2012 to the criminal court.",
 "court_quote": "Considering entire facts and circumstances of the case, we feel that an award of compensation of Rs.50,000/-, the relief which is prayed for, is just and proper to meet the ends of justice. We direct the first respondent to pay a compensation of Rs.50,000/-(Rupees fifty thousand only) to the petitioner within one month from the date of the judgment.",
 "court_quote_para": "40",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala HC Division Bench awarded Rs 50,000 compensation for lathi assault that cost a young lawyer five teeth during a night vehicle check, with recovery from the SI, constable and home guard.",
 "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": "2012-12-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2013 (1) KLT 103",
   "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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