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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0732",
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 "display_title": "Nagoor Man vs The State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Nagoor Man vs The State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Nagapattinam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Nagoor",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Nagoor Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Nagoor Man vs The State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.No.18154 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sanjay Kishan Kaul",
  "T.S. Sivagnanam"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-07-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2013-12-31",
 "incident_year": 2013,
 "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",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Nagoor Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Inspector of Police, Nagoor Police Station"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "named_only",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police, Nagoor Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Nagoor man"
  }
 ],
 "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/139431393/",
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 "summary": "The hospital affidavit records that a Nagoor man, brought by escort police for a preliminary check-up before lodgment in prison on the night of 31.12.2013, was conscious, stuttering and inebriated, then collapsed and died at 1.15 a.m.; the post-mortem recorded three external injuries and opined shock as the cause of death (paras 1-2). The petitioner, co-convenor of the Campaign for Custodial Justice and Abolition of Torture, sought an enquiry by a retired District Judge into the custodial torture and death. The Division Bench noted the Government Order dated 25.07.2015 sanctioning Rs.5,00,000 relief to the family and directed structured disbursal (Rs.2 lakh wife deposit, Rs.1 lakh per child deposit, Rs.1 lakh immediate release) (paras 3-4). It recorded that Inspector of Nagoor Police Station had exceeded his powers and used unwarranted force, noting the magisterial enquiry findings, his suspension, and the decision to initiate criminal and departmental proceedings (para 5). The writ petition was disposed of and listed for compliance on 09.10.2015 (paras 6-7). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The hospital affidavit records that a Nagoor man, brought by escort police for a preliminary check-up before lodgment in prison on the night of 31.12.2013, was conscious, stuttering and inebriated, then collapsed and died at 1.15 a.m.; the post-mortem recorded three external injuries and opined shock as the cause of death (paras 1-2). The petitioner, co-convenor of the Campaign for Custodial Justice and Abolition of Torture, sought an enquiry by a retired District Judge into the custodial torture and death. The Division Bench noted the Government Order dated 25.07.2015 sanctioning Rs.5,00,000 relief to the family and directed structured disbursal (Rs.2 lakh wife deposit, Rs.1 lakh per child deposit, Rs.1 lakh immediate release) (paras 3-4). It recorded that Inspector of Nagoor Police Station had exceeded his powers and used unwarranted force, noting the magisterial enquiry findings, his suspension, and the decision to initiate criminal and departmental proceedings (para 5). The writ petition was disposed of and listed for compliance on 09.10.2015 (paras 6-7).",
 "court_quote": "In so far as the fate of Tr.[name withheld] is concerned, who was the then Inspector of Police, Nagoor Police Station, who has exceeded his powers and has used unwarranted force",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC recorded unwarranted force by Nagoor Inspector; Rs.5L State relief structured by court; criminal and dept proceedings initiated.",
 "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": "2015-07-28",
   "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.18154 of 2014",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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",
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   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/139431393/",
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  }
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 },
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP5-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}