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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Arakkandanallur Woman and Others vs The Secretary, Public Department, Government of Tamil Nadu and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Arakkandanallur Woman and Others vs The Secretary, Public Department, Government of Tamil Nadu and Another",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Villupuram",
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 "city_town": "Arakkandanallur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Arakkandanallur Police Station, Villupuram",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Arakkandanallur Woman and Others vs The Secretary, Public Department, Government of Tamil Nadu and Another",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 18315 of 2010",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "V. Bharathidasan"
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 "judgment_date": "2019-11-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2006-08-05",
 "incident_year": 2006,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Arakkandanallur Police Station, Villupuram",
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   "display": "Head Constable, Arakkandanallur Police Station, Villupuram"
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   "display": "Head Constable, Arakkandanallur Police Station, Villupuram"
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 26,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Arakkandanallur man, age 26"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/96074660/",
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 "summary": "An Arakkandanallur man @ an Arakkandanallur man, aged 26, arrested in a prohibition case and detained in the Arakkandanallur police lock-up, was found dead on 5 August 2006 and declared brought dead at the Government Hospital. The family alleged custodial violence; the State contended suicide by hanging due to police negligence. A Revenue Divisional Officer inquiry examining 45 persons concluded suicide without custodial violence but fixed negligence on one Sub-Inspector and two Head Constables, who were suspended and faced criminal proceedings (later quashed in 2014). The Court held it admitted that the deceased died an unnatural death in police custody, applied Supreme Court precedents on State liability, and allowed the writ, quantifying fair compensation at Rs. 3,00,000 less Rs. 1,00,000 already paid, with 9% interest on default. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "An Arakkandanallur man @ an Arakkandanallur man, aged 26, arrested in a prohibition case and detained in the Arakkandanallur police lock-up, was found dead on 5 August 2006 and declared brought dead at the Government Hospital. The family alleged custodial violence; the State contended suicide by hanging due to police negligence. A Revenue Divisional Officer inquiry examining 45 persons concluded suicide without custodial violence but fixed negligence on one Sub-Inspector and two Head Constables, who were suspended and faced criminal proceedings (later quashed in 2014). The Court held it admitted that the deceased died an unnatural death in police custody, applied Supreme Court precedents on State liability, and allowed the writ, quantifying fair compensation at Rs. 3,00,000 less Rs. 1,00,000 already paid, with 9% interest on default.",
 "court_quote": "Since the deceased died while he was in the custody of the police in connection with a criminal case and the death was unnatural, the petitioners are entitled for compensation.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; admitted unnatural custodial death, Rs. 3 lakh total (Rs. 2 lakh additional) on State liability.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2019-11-07",
   "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 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 18315 of 2010",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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   ]
  }
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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