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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0028",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1288",
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 "display_title": "Pollachi Man and [name withheld] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pollachi Man and [name withheld] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Coimbatore",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pollachi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pollachi West Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pollachi Man and [name withheld] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 8910 and 9106 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-04-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1997-06-13",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Pollachi West Police Station, Coimbatore District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police, Pollachi West Police Station, Coimbatore District"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Coastal Security Group (formerly Sub-Inspector, Pollachi West Police Station)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Coastal Security Group (formerly Sub-Inspector, Pollachi West Police Station)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 40,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pollachi man, age 40"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "fine",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 450000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/7349705/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court dismissed writ petitions by Special Sub-Inspector and Inspector challenging the recovery of Rs.1,93,548 and Rs.2,56,452 from their salaries toward the compensation the State paid for the 1997 custodial death of lorry driver [name withheld] at Pollachi West police station. The court held that the findings of third-degree torture recorded in the earlier compensation judgment (W.P. No.19702 of 2000) had become final and could not be collaterally challenged. It held that the officers' acquittal in the criminal trial and the outcomes of departmental proceedings did not debar recovery, since the State, having paid compensation on vicarious liability, was entitled to be indemnified by the officers whose liability was direct. Both writ petitions were dismissed and the recovery orders sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court dismissed writ petitions by Special Sub-Inspector and Inspector challenging the recovery of Rs.1,93,548 and Rs.2,56,452 from their salaries toward the compensation the State paid for the 1997 custodial death of lorry driver [name withheld] at Pollachi West police station. The court held that the findings of third-degree torture recorded in the earlier compensation judgment (W.P. No.19702 of 2000) had become final and could not be collaterally challenged. It held that the officers' acquittal in the criminal trial and the outcomes of departmental proceedings did not debar recovery, since the State, having paid compensation on vicarious liability, was entitled to be indemnified by the officers whose liability was direct. Both writ petitions were dismissed and the recovery orders sustained.",
 "court_quote": "It is not as if the petitioners can indulge in illegal acts for which the State has only vicarious liability, whereas the liability of the petitioners is direct.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed officers' writs; recovery of custodial-death compensation from two policemen upheld.",
 "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"
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 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial death",
   "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": "2012-04-10",
   "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 450,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. Nos. 8910 and 9106 of 2009",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-86-002",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
}