{ "record_id": "CW-2016-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0697", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Vadakara Man vs Vadakara Man and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Vadakara Man vs Vadakara Man and Others", "state": "Kerala", "district": "Kozhikode", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Vadakara", "police_station_or_unit": "Vadakara Police Station", "court": "Kerala High Court", "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Vadakara Man vs Vadakara Man and Others", "case_number": "W.A. No. 1457 of 2016 in W.P.(C) No. 15863 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Mohan M. Shantanagoudar", "Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan" ], "judgment_date": "2016-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2012-05-01", "incident_year": 2012, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub Inspector", "unit": "Vadakara Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub Inspector, Vadakara Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 70, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Vadakara man, age 70" } ], "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/79783045/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/39403313/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. In May 2012, Sub Inspector of Vadakara Police Station took 70-year-old retired teacher a Vadakara man into custody for alleged smoking in public; the victim alleged he was dragged by the collar, abused in public, lost a gold chain, and suffered a heart attack after release on bail. A disciplinary enquiry followed and the officer did not oppose the writ petition; the Single Judge directed Rs.1,00,000 be paid out of the officer's salary. The Division Bench dismissed the officer's appeal, recording its own finding that he was guilty of misconduct, acted without due diligence and violated the D.K. Basu custody guidelines, and confirmed the salary-recovery direction within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "In May 2012, Sub Inspector of Vadakara Police Station took 70-year-old retired teacher a Vadakara man into custody for alleged smoking in public; the victim alleged he was dragged by the collar, abused in public, lost a gold chain, and suffered a heart attack after release on bail. A disciplinary enquiry followed and the officer did not oppose the writ petition; the Single Judge directed Rs.1,00,000 be paid out of the officer's salary. The Division Bench dismissed the officer's appeal, recording its own finding that he was guilty of misconduct, acted without due diligence and violated the D.K. Basu custody guidelines, and confirmed the salary-recovery direction within two months.", "court_quote": "we also find from the records that the appellant is guilty of misconduct", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "DB upheld Rs.1 lakh damages from officer's salary for D.K. Basu violations against 70-year-old detainee.", "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": "2016-08-03", "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": "W.A. No. 1457 of 2016 in W.P.(C) No. 15863 of 2015", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/79783045/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/39403313/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP11-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }