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 "display_title": "Chennai Man, [name withheld] and [name withheld] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chennai Man, [name withheld] and [name withheld] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chennai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chennai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "E-2 Royapettah Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chennai Man, [name withheld] and [name withheld] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 21806 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K. Chandru"
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 "judgment_date": "2012-04-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1993-06-21",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.226"
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   "display": "Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Grade-I Police Constable",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 24,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Chennai man, age 24"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "fine",
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 "compensation_inr": 380000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159929378/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court dismissed the writ petition of three police constables and upheld the recovery of Rs.76,000 from each toward the Rs.3,80,000 compensation the State paid to the mother of a Chennai man, aged 24, who was beaten to death in the custody of E-2 Royapettah police station in June 1993. The court held that the petitioners, who were heard as party-respondents in the compensation writ (W.P. No.14879 of 1994), had let the findings and the recovery direction become final without appeal. It held that neither their acquittal in the criminal trial, where witnesses turned hostile, nor the setting aside of departmental penalties debarred recovery, since public-law compensation serves a different purpose. The writ petition was dismissed and the recovery sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court dismissed the writ petition of three police constables and upheld the recovery of Rs.76,000 from each toward the Rs.3,80,000 compensation the State paid to the mother of a Chennai man, aged 24, who was beaten to death in the custody of E-2 Royapettah police station in June 1993. The court held that the petitioners, who were heard as party-respondents in the compensation writ (W.P. No.14879 of 1994), had let the findings and the recovery direction become final without appeal. It held that neither their acquittal in the criminal trial, where witnesses turned hostile, nor the setting aside of departmental penalties debarred recovery, since public-law compensation serves a different purpose. The writ petition was dismissed and the recovery sustained.",
 "court_quote": "This court clearly found that the petitioners were responsible for inflicting injuries against the deceased [name withheld].",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed constables' writ; Rs.76,000 recovery each toward custodial-death compensation upheld.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "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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   "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 380,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 21806 of 2009",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "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",
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