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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0604",
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 "display_title": "Vellamunda Man v. State of Kerala and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Vellamunda Man v. State of Kerala and Others",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Wayanad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Vellamunda",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vellamunda Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Vellamunda Man v. State of Kerala and Others",
 "case_number": "WP(C) No. 24902 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A. Muhamed Mustaque"
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 "judgment_date": "2015-05-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2014-05-20",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "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": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Mananthavady, Wayanad",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:no",
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   "key2_union": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.94,
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   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mananthavady, Wayanad"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Vellamunda Police Station, Wayanad",
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    "key2_agy:no",
    "key2_union:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.93,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.04,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Vellamunda Police Station, Wayanad"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Vellamunda 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/168621613/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-dismisses-kerala-govts-petition-challenging-hc-direction-to-pay-rs1-lakh-compensation-to-man-illegally-detained-as-maoist-256842",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/freedom-political-ideology-fundamental-right-kerala-high-court-maoist-compensation"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Vellamunda man was taken in a police jeep on 20-05-2014 by the anti-naxal squad on mere suspicion of being a Maoist, interrogated, body-searched and had his house searched and devices seized, then released without any crime registered. The court disbelieved the police rescue-from-mob plea on the General Diary, held mere Maoist ideology is no ground for custody, and found the State bound to compensate. It directed the State to pay Rs. 1 lakh compensation plus Rs. 10,000 costs within two months, declining individual-officer liability and departmental action. The compensation direction survived the State's appeal and its SLP was dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2024.",
 "summary_verified": "A Vellamunda man was taken in a police jeep on 20-05-2014 by the anti-naxal squad on mere suspicion of being a Maoist, interrogated, body-searched and had his house searched and devices seized, then released without any crime registered. The court disbelieved the police rescue-from-mob plea on the General Diary, held mere Maoist ideology is no ground for custody, and found the State bound to compensate. It directed the State to pay Rs. 1 lakh compensation plus Rs. 10,000 costs within two months, declining individual-officer liability and departmental action. The compensation direction survived the State's appeal and its SLP was dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2024.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, Police cannot detain a person merely because he is a Maoist, unless Police forms a reasonable opinion that his activities are unlawful.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: Maoist-suspicion detention held illegal; Rs.1 lakh + costs; upheld to SC.",
 "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": "2015-05-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "WP(C) No. 24902 of 2014",
   "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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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-dismisses-kerala-govts-petition-challenging-hc-direction-to-pay-rs1-lakh-compensation-to-man-illegally-detained-as-maoist-256842",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/freedom-political-ideology-fundamental-right-kerala-high-court-maoist-compensation",
   "link_checked": null
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-025",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}