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 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/59561839/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. replace 'minor XI-standard student a minor boy' with role noun ('a minor boy studying in XI standard'); replace ' ' with the recorded counter (DSP clean-chit; respondents' chase/fall + wayward-life claims, paras 5-7) per R52. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "replace 'minor XI-standard student a minor boy' with role noun ('a minor boy studying in XI standard'); replace 'The police version is not recorded in the cited text.' with the recorded counter (DSP clean-chit; respondents' chase/fall + wayward-life claims, paras 5-7) per R52",
 "court_quote": "Thus, the available medical records would go to clearly show that the petitioner sustained severe injuries at the hands of the respondents 5 to 10 while he was in police custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary text verified: Rs 3L compensation for custodial torture of minor; DIG enquiry ordered.",
 "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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   "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"
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  {
   "date": "2019-11-27",
   "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. 17503 of 2013",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "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)",
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