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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Madurai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
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 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Madurai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Madurai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pudur Police Station (H2 Surya Nagar Police Station)",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Madurai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 33001 of 2002",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.B.K. Vasuki, J."
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 "judgment_date": "2014-04-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "2000-09-19",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Article 21",
  "Constitution of India Article 226"
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   "name": null,
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   "display": "Head Constable, Pudur Police Station"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable Grade I",
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   "role": "named_only",
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    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "display": "Police Constable Grade I, Pudur Police Station"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 42,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Madurai man, age 42"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/145507177/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 total compensation to the family of 42-year-old tailor a Madurai man, who was beaten in the course of enquiry at Pudur Police Station, Madurai, on 19.9.2000, handed over unconscious to his family, and died in hospital at 11 pm on 20.9.2000 (paras 2, 8). Justice K.B.K. Vasuki recorded that the post-mortem certificate showed 20 antemortem injuries plus chest contusion, temporal contusion and subdural hemorrhage (para 7), and held police personnel 'solely responsible for causing injuries, which are the major cause for the death' (para 10). The respondents contended death was due to ethyl alcohol poisoning and injuries sustained outside the station at Pudur bus stand (para 4). Citing Supreme Court precedents on State liability for Article 21 violations, the Court directed the State to deposit the remaining Rs 4,00,000 (after adjusting Rs 1,00,000 interim relief) for investment in bank deposits for the widow and two children (paras 12-13).",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 total compensation to the family of 42-year-old tailor a Madurai man, who was beaten in the course of enquiry at Pudur Police Station, Madurai, on 19.9.2000, handed over unconscious to his family, and died in hospital at 11 pm on 20.9.2000 (paras 2, 8). Justice K.B.K. Vasuki recorded that the post-mortem certificate showed 20 antemortem injuries plus chest contusion, temporal contusion and subdural hemorrhage (para 7), and held police personnel 'solely responsible for causing injuries, which are the major cause for the death' (para 10). The respondents contended death was due to ethyl alcohol poisoning and injuries sustained outside the station at Pudur bus stand (para 4). Citing Supreme Court precedents on State liability for Article 21 violations, the Court directed the State to deposit the remaining Rs 4,00,000 (after adjusting Rs 1,00,000 interim relief) for investment in bank deposits for the widow and two children (paras 12-13).",
 "court_quote": "this court is of the view that this is a fit case, wherein, the petitioners are entitled to get compensation for the death of their bread winner a Madurai man, due to police excess.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for custodial death of tailor a Madurai man following severe beating at Pudur PS.",
 "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 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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2014-04-15",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 33001 of 2002",
   "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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  }
 ],
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 "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-005",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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