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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0026",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0845",
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 "display_title": "Mettur Man and Others vs The Secretary and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mettur Man and Others vs The Secretary and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Salem",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mettur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Karumalaikudal Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mettur Man and Others vs The Secretary and Others",
 "case_number": "H.C.P. No.897 of 2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.N. Basha",
  "P. Devadass"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-04-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2007-06-11",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "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": [
  "IPC 341",
  "IPC 147",
  "IPC 148",
  "IPC 188",
  "IPC 332",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Karumalaikudal Police Station, Mettur, Salem District",
   "role": "named_only",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Inspector of Police, Karumalaikudal Police Station, Mettur, Salem District"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Mettur, Salem District",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mettur, Salem District"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mettur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102387875/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Bar leaders filed this habeas corpus petition for Advocate a Mettur man of Mettur, detained after an 11.06.2007 road-roko and brutally beaten in custody with lathis and boots, as recorded in the Legal Services Authority report dated 03.07.2007. The Division Bench rejected the police claim of a mild lathi-charge, holding the materials established custodial torture, and noted the foisted case against him (S.C. No.166/2010) had been quashed on 10.01.2011 as abuse of process. It directed the State to pay Rs.3,00,000 compensation within eight weeks, holding it the State's bounden duty to compensate custodial-torture victims adequately. It also directed the DGP to take appropriate action against the erring officials in a manner known to law. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Bar leaders filed this habeas corpus petition for Advocate a Mettur man of Mettur, detained after an 11.06.2007 road-roko and brutally beaten in custody with lathis and boots, as recorded in the Legal Services Authority report dated 03.07.2007. The Division Bench rejected the police claim of a mild lathi-charge, holding the materials established custodial torture, and noted the foisted case against him (S.C. No.166/2010) had been quashed on 10.01.2011 as abuse of process. It directed the State to pay Rs.3,00,000 compensation within eight weeks, holding it the State's bounden duty to compensate custodial-torture victims adequately. It also directed the DGP to take appropriate action against the erring officials in a manner known to law.",
 "court_quote": "As the victim, Mr.a Mettur man, suffered custodial torture at the hands of the police officials while he was in the police custody, it is the bounden duty of the State to compensate him adequately and reasonably.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Custodial torture of advocate established; Rs.3L compensation plus DGP-directed action against erring officials.",
 "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": "2013-04-22",
   "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 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "H.C.P. No.897 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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-39-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}