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 "record_id": "CW-2020-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0201",
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 "display_title": "Jayakumar vs State Of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jayakumar vs State Of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kollam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "East Police Station, Kollam",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jayakumar vs State Of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A. Hariprasad",
  "N. Anil Kumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2020-01-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2020,
 "incident_date": "2005-04-06",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 348"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Jayakumar",
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "East Police Station, Kollam",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.59,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.78,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Jayakumar",
   "display": "Jayakumar (Police Constable)"
  },
  {
   "name": "M. Venugopal",
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "East Police Station, Kollam",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.68,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.5,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "M. Venugopal",
   "display": "M. Venugopal (Police Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 37,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kollam man, age 37"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121952943/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UP-87-2005/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Kollam man, picked up from Sanker's Hospital, Kollam, on 6 April 2005 on suspicion of mobile-phone theft, was informally detained without recording arrest and tortured by two crime-squad constables of Kollam East Police Station at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel police museum lock-up to extract a confession; he died the same evening and the death was homicidal. The trial court convicted both constables of custodial murder under Sections 302 and 348 read with Section 34 IPC. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held the deceased was in the exclusive custody of the two accused and, finding no intent to kill, altered the murder conviction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder with five years rigorous imprisonment each, confirmed the wrongful-confinement conviction and sentences to run concurrently, and left the Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim's mother undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Kollam man, picked up from Sanker's Hospital, Kollam, on 6 April 2005 on suspicion of mobile-phone theft, was informally detained without recording arrest and tortured by two crime-squad constables of Kollam East Police Station at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel police museum lock-up to extract a confession; he died the same evening and the death was homicidal. The trial court convicted both constables of custodial murder under Sections 302 and 348 read with Section 34 IPC. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held the deceased was in the exclusive custody of the two accused and, finding no intent to kill, altered the murder conviction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder with five years rigorous imprisonment each, confirmed the wrongful-confinement conviction and sentences to run concurrently, and left the Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim's mother undisturbed.",
 "court_quote": "We are satisfied with the evidence that the deceased was tortured by A1 and A2 with an intention to extract confession in connection with a theft case.",
 "court_quote_para": "74",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala HC Division Bench upheld custodial-death conviction of two Kollam East constables, altering s.302 to s.304 Part II with 5 years RI and confirming s.348 conviction and Rs 2 lakh compensation.",
 "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 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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2020-01-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala 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. No. 1267 of 2014",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121952943/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UP-87-2005/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "KERALA-001",
 "officers_named_public": 2,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}