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 "display_title": "Puducherry Police personnel and others v. State by Superintendent of Police, CID",
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 "district": "Puducherry",
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 "police_station_or_unit": "Odiansalai Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Puducherry Police personnel and others v. State by Superintendent of Police, CID",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002",
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  "M. V. Muralidaran"
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 "judgment_date": "2018-10-29",
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 "incident_date": "1993-12-29",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "Custodial death",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Odiansalai Police Station"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Puducherry man"
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "mixed",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=218102180900&title=sundararaj-vs-state-by-superintendent-of-police-cid",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf",
  "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man was brought to Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 for interrogation and beaten to death by the station police officers; Assistant Surgeon V. Srinivasan (A11) then issued a false first post-mortem certificate attributing death to cirrhotic haemorrhage. A second post-mortem on 3 January 1994 showed death by shock from multiple blunt injuries. The II Additional Sessions Judge, Puducherry (S.C. No. 11/1995, 24.06.2002) convicted three policemen (A2-A4) under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC with seven years rigorous imprisonment plus Section 201 convictions, and convicted others including the doctor under Section 201. The High Court dismissed Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002 by common judgment dated 29 October 2018, upholding the convictions; the Supreme Court on 17 September 2025 affirmed the A2-A4 convictions while setting aside only the A6-A8 Section 201 convictions and reducing the doctors sentence to a fine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man was brought to Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 for interrogation and beaten to death by the station police officers; Assistant Surgeon V. Srinivasan (A11) then issued a false first post-mortem certificate attributing death to cirrhotic haemorrhage. A second post-mortem on 3 January 1994 showed death by shock from multiple blunt injuries. The II Additional Sessions Judge, Puducherry (S.C. No. 11/1995, 24.06.2002) convicted three policemen (A2-A4) under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC with seven years rigorous imprisonment plus Section 201 convictions, and convicted others including the doctor under Section 201. The High Court dismissed Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002 by common judgment dated 29 October 2018, upholding the convictions; the Supreme Court on 17 September 2025 affirmed the A2-A4 convictions while setting aside only the A6-A8 Section 201 convictions and reducing the doctors sentence to a fine.",
 "court_quote": "the public has lost faith in the police and had to seek help from the court for redress of grievances",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC (M.V. Muralidaran, J.) common judgment 29.10.2018 in Crl.A. 995, 996, 1051/2002 upheld trial-court convictions for 1993 Odiansalai custodial death; corroborated by SC order 17.09.2025 and PTI report (HC full text paywalled).",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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   "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.",
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   "action_type": "Conviction",
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   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "date": "2018-10-29",
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   "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002",
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