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 "record_id": "CW-2019-0035",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1292",
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 "display_title": "Sivagangai Woman vs State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sivagangai Woman vs State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Sivagangai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ulagampatti Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sivagangai Woman vs State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.16442 of 2004",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "M. S. Ramesh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2019-08-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2002-07-07",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "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": [
  "CrPC 107",
  "Constitution Art.21",
  "Constitution Art.22",
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "unit": "Ulagampatti Police Station, Sivagangai District",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Ulagampatti Police Station, Sivagangai District"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 25,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Sivagangai woman, age 25"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2374189/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. replace ' ' — paras 4/7/11 record respondents' counter (matrimonial + land disputes, Cr.No.21/2001 u/s 107 CrPC, 4th respondent expired, transfer administrative not punitive, no State liability); 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 4/7/11 record respondents' counter (matrimonial + land disputes, Cr.No.21/2001 u/s 107 CrPC, 4th respondent expired, transfer administrative not punitive, no State liability); summarize it per R52",
 "court_quote": "In view of the undisputable facts establishing that the petitioner in the instant case was subjected to illegal arrest and torture and by applying the ratio laid down in D.K.Basu's case (supra), this Court is of the view that the petitioner requires to be monetarily compensated.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held assault and illegal arrest by police proved; Rs.2 lakh compensation ordered.",
 "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": "2019-08-07",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No.16442 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": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2374189/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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  "chunk-123"
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-88-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}