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 "record_id": "CW-2017-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0471",
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 "display_title": "Theni Man v. The Government of Tamilnadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Theni Man v. The Government of Tamilnadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Theni",
 "district_at_time": "Madurai",
 "city_town": "Theni",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Narcotics Intelligence Bureau office, Theni",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Theni Man v. The Government of Tamilnadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 21312 of 2004",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Vaidyanathan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2017-09-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "1995-04-05",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 302"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Pandiaraj",
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Narcotics Intelligence Bureau",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
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   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.11,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.89,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Pandiaraj",
   "display": "Pandiaraj (Inspector of Police)"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Narcotics Intelligence Bureau",
   "role": "named_only",
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    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no",
    "redteam:conviction_set_aside_acquittal_recorded"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.12,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Narcotics Intelligence Bureau"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Theni man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1050000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165910510/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. replace ' ' — paras 3-4 record the Government Advocate's counter (custodial-death denial, deceased a hard-core criminal, Crl.A.No.946/2003 acquittal bars relief); summarize it per R52. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "replace 'The police version is not recorded in the cited text.' — paras 3-4 record the Government Advocate's counter (custodial-death denial, deceased a hard-core criminal, Crl.A.No.946/2003 acquittal bars relief); summarize it per R52",
 "court_quote": "There are categorical findings based on the evidence that had been discussed indicating that the said Pandiaraj, Inspector of Police, who led the team, was directly responsible for the death of a Theni man",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC awarded Rs 10.5L total for a Theni man's NIB custodial death; criminal acquittal held no bar.",
 "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": "2017-09-15",
   "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 1,050,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 21312 of 2004",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165910510/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SOUTH-002",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}