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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0020",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0737",
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 "display_title": "Virudhunagar Man v. Government of Tamil Nadu",
 "display_title_redacted": "Virudhunagar Man v. Government of Tamil Nadu",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Virudhunagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Virudhunagar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "District Crime Branch, Virudhunagar",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Virudhunagar Man v. Government of Tamil Nadu",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No. 1073 of 2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Manikumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-09-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2003-06-14",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "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"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "District Crime Branch, Virudhunagar",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.06,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, District Crime Branch, Virudhunagar"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "District Crime Branch, Virudhunagar",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:named_only",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, District Crime Branch, Virudhunagar"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Virudhunagar 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/56768587/",
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 "summary": "A Virudhunagar man, a vegetable vendor, was twice seized from his home by DCB officers seeking to extract a confession to a 2002 theft, beaten at a guest house and various stations, and held in illegal custody on 14-15 June 2003, sustaining injuries that caused foot drop in his right leg. His wife's telegrams to senior officers, her habeas corpus petition and his complaint to the RDO Sivakasi corroborated the detention, and hospital records showed he told doctors at the earliest point that the police assaulted him. The Court rejected the RDO Aruppukottai's clean-chit report and the State's denial, holding the State vicariously responsible for the human-rights violation and torture. It allowed the writ petition and directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation within one month, with liberty to recover from the responsible policemen. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Virudhunagar man, a vegetable vendor, was twice seized from his home by DCB officers seeking to extract a confession to a 2002 theft, beaten at a guest house and various stations, and held in illegal custody on 14-15 June 2003, sustaining injuries that caused foot drop in his right leg. His wife's telegrams to senior officers, her habeas corpus petition and his complaint to the RDO Sivakasi corroborated the detention, and hospital records showed he told doctors at the earliest point that the police assaulted him. The Court rejected the RDO Aruppukottai's clean-chit report and the State's denial, holding the State vicariously responsible for the human-rights violation and torture. It allowed the writ petition and directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation within one month, with liberty to recover from the responsible policemen.",
 "court_quote": "There are materials to arrive at a conclusion that the authorities have failed to consider the medical evidence in proper perspective. State is vicariously responsible for the violation of human rights and physical torture by the police.",
 "court_quote_para": "37",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held illegal custody + torture proved by medical evidence, awarded Rs 1 lakh; matches outcome.",
 "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": "2012-09-04",
   "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.(MD) No. 1073 of 2007",
   "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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  }
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 },
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-097",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}