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 "record_id": "CW-2021-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0207",
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 "display_title": "Ezhukone Man vs Ezhukone Man",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ezhukone Man vs Ezhukone Man",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ezhukone",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ezhukone Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ezhukone Man vs Ezhukone Man",
 "case_number": "Crl.R.P. Nos. 519 & 520 of 2013",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Mary Joseph"
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 "judgment_date": "2021-06-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2021,
 "incident_date": "1996-02-08",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 324",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
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  {
   "name": "D. Rajagopal",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (at time of offence)",
   "unit": "Ezhukone Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.78,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "D. Rajagopal",
   "display": "D. Rajagopal (Sub-Inspector (at time of offence))"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable (No.4690)",
   "unit": "Ezhukone Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
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    "ledger:no_row"
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   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (No.4690), Ezhukone Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": "Baby",
   "rank": "Police Constable (No.3817)",
   "unit": "Ezhukone Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "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": 0.4,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.57,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Baby",
   "display": "Baby (Police Constable (No.3817))"
  },
  {
   "name": "Sharafudeen",
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Ezhukone Police Station",
   "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": 0.46,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.59,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Sharafudeen",
   "display": "Sharafudeen (Police Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ezhukone man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": 10000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/125749818/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/kerala-high-court-section-197-crpc-sanction-not-required-to-prosecute-policemen-for-their-illegal-acts-183571"
 ],
 "summary": "Complainant [name withheld] was picked up and held overnight in the Ezhukone police lock-up on 8-9 February 1996, where he was beaten and burnt on the tongue with a cigarette so that he could not complain to the Magistrate; the trial court and appellate court concurrently convicted the SI and three constables under Sections 323 and 324 read with Section 34 IPC. The Kerala High Court rejected the Section 197 CrPC sanction defence, holding custodial torture is not an act done in the discharge of official duty. The court dismissed both criminal revision petitions, confirming one year simple imprisonment with Rs 2,500 fine each under Section 324 and Rs 1,000 fine each under Section 323, with Rs 10,000 of the fine payable to the complainant as Section 357(1) CrPC compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Complainant [name withheld] was picked up and held overnight in the Ezhukone police lock-up on 8-9 February 1996, where he was beaten and burnt on the tongue with a cigarette so that he could not complain to the Magistrate; the trial court and appellate court concurrently convicted the SI and three constables under Sections 323 and 324 read with Section 34 IPC. The Kerala High Court rejected the Section 197 CrPC sanction defence, holding custodial torture is not an act done in the discharge of official duty. The court dismissed both criminal revision petitions, confirming one year simple imprisonment with Rs 2,500 fine each under Section 324 and Rs 1,000 fine each under Section 323, with Rs 10,000 of the fine payable to the complainant as Section 357(1) CrPC compensation.",
 "court_quote": "In the light of the foregoing discussions, this Court has no hesitation to hold that the trial court and the appellate court are not in error and are perfectly justified in finding accused Nos.1 and 3 to 5 guilty for the offences under Sections 323 and 324 read with Section 34 IPC, convicting them and imposing punishments on them for those by the impugned judgment.",
 "court_quote_para": "47",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala HC single judge dismissed revisions of an SI and three Ezhukone constables, upholding 1-year SI convictions under ss.323/324/34 IPC for 1996 custodial torture.",
 "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": 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.R.P. Nos. 519 & 520 of 2013",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2021-06-23",
   "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.R.P. Nos. 519 & 520 of 2013",
   "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/125749818/",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/kerala-high-court-section-197-crpc-sanction-not-required-to-prosecute-policemen-for-their-illegal-acts-183571",
   "link_checked": null
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  "basis": null
 },
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "KERALA-007",
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 "service": "police",
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}