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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0205",
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 "display_title": "State of Kerala vs Wayanad Man",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Kerala vs Wayanad Man",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Wayanad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Kerala vs Wayanad Man",
 "case_number": "W.A. No. 1330 of 2015",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Hrishikesh Roy",
  "A. K. Jayasankaran Nambiar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2019-07-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art 21",
  "Constitution Art 226"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Wayanad 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-361999.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32516640/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/kerala-hc-upholds-compensation-illegally-detained-suspicion-maoist-146167",
  "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"
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 "summary": "Author and researcher a Wayanad man was detained and interrogated by police in Wayanad on 20 May 2014 on suspicion of being a Maoist, a suspicion the court found was not based on any valid material, and his residence was thereafter searched by officers accompanied by Thunderbolt commandos without following CrPC procedure. The single judge awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation with Rs 10,000 costs. A Division Bench affirmed, holding that the detention, interrogation and search were wholly unjustified, that a person cannot be persecuted merely for holding Maoist ideology, and that the compensation was neither exorbitant nor unreasonable, dismissing the State's writ appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "Author and researcher a Wayanad man was detained and interrogated by police in Wayanad on 20 May 2014 on suspicion of being a Maoist, a suspicion the court found was not based on any valid material, and his residence was thereafter searched by officers accompanied by Thunderbolt commandos without following CrPC procedure. The single judge awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation with Rs 10,000 costs. A Division Bench affirmed, holding that the detention, interrogation and search were wholly unjustified, that a person cannot be persecuted merely for holding Maoist ideology, and that the compensation was neither exorbitant nor unreasonable, dismissing the State's writ appeal.",
 "court_quote": "Accordingly, merely on a suspicion that the petitioner has embraced the Maoist ideology, he cannot be persecuted by the State authorities. Article 21 of the Constitution mandates that no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to a procedure established by law.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala HC Division Bench upheld Rs 1 lakh compensation for unjustified Maoist-suspicion detention, interrogation and house search, dismissing the State's writ appeal.",
 "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": "2019-07-08",
   "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. 1330 of 2015",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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   "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",
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 "merged_case_id": "KERALA-005",
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