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 "display_title": "Namakkal Man v. The Secretary, Public (L&O-A) Dept.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Namakkal Man v. The Secretary, Public (L&O-A) Dept.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Namakkal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Namakkal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Namakkal PS",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Namakkal Man v. The Secretary, Public (L&O-A) Dept.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 9540 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy"
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 "judgment_date": "2021-02-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2021,
 "incident_date": "1995-06-21",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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   "display": "Constable, Namakkal PS"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 19,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Namakkal man, age 19"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120376931/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court allowed the writ and ordered Rs 3 lakh additional compensation to the mother of 19-year-old a Namakkal man, tortured to death at Namakkal police station on 21 June 1995. The Court held the Rs 50,000 paid in 1996 was mere ex-gratia since police culpability was then unestablished, whereas guilt now stood established beyond reasonable doubt through the SDM enquiry and the life-term convictions of the Sub-Inspector and three constables. It treated State liability as the logical corollary of the established custodial death. Default interest of 9% was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court allowed the writ and ordered Rs 3 lakh additional compensation to the mother of 19-year-old a Namakkal man, tortured to death at Namakkal police station on 21 June 1995. The Court held the Rs 50,000 paid in 1996 was mere ex-gratia since police culpability was then unestablished, whereas guilt now stood established beyond reasonable doubt through the SDM enquiry and the life-term convictions of the Sub-Inspector and three constables. It treated State liability as the logical corollary of the established custodial death. Default interest of 9% was ordered.",
 "court_quote": "The responsibility of the Government and its officials for the tragic death of the Petitioner's son has been established beyond reasonable doubt in this case. Indeed, it is the admitted position that the Petitioner's son died while in custody at the Namakkal Police station and that such death was caused by the convicted police officials.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC allowed writ; Rs 3L additional compensation for established custodial death.",
 "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": "2021-02-26",
   "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. 9540 of 2009",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-040",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}