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 "display_title": "Pudukkoorapettai Police Inspector of Police and others vs State by [name withheld], CBI/SCB/Chennai (Pudukkoorapettai Woman-Pudukkoorapettai Man honour killing case)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pudukkoorapettai Police Inspector of Police and others vs State by [name withheld], CBI/SCB/Chennai (Pudukkoorapettai Woman-Pudukkoorapettai Man honour killing case)",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Cuddalore",
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 "city_town": "Pudukkoorapettai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vriddhachalam Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Pudukkoorapettai Police Inspector of Police and others vs State by [name withheld], CBI/SCB/Chennai (Pudukkoorapettai Woman-Pudukkoorapettai Man honour killing case)",
 "case_number": "R.T. No.4 of 2021 and Crl.A. Nos.483, 504, 522, 523, 524 and 626 of 2021",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "P.N. Prakash",
  "A.A. Nakkiran"
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 "judgment_date": "2022-06-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "2003-07-08",
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 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 218",
  "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3(2)(i)",
  "SC/ST Act 1989 s.4"
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   "display": "Inspector of Police, Vriddhachalam Police Station"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pudukkoorapettai man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pudukkoorapettai woman"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pudukkoorapettai man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pudukkoorapettai man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pudukkoorapettai man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 5,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 900000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/29817701/",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/tn-honour-killing-case-supreme-court-upholds-life-sentence-of-police-inspector-for-fabricating-evidence-against-dalits-290616"
 ],
 "summary": "Newly married inter-caste couple a Pudukkoorapettai man and a Pudukkoorapettai woman died on 8 July 2003 and their bodies were cremated in haste; Inspector manufactured an extrajudicial confession, falsely implicated three Dalit men, arrested them, recorded their police confessions and effected make-believe seizures, while Sub-Inspector registered the FIR thereafter. The CBI investigated and the Special Court convicted thirteen accused. The Division Bench held the fabrication by [name withheld] proved, dismissed his appeal and confirmed his life sentence with the Rs.3,00,000-each compensation to the three victims' side, and confirmed [name withheld]'s conviction under Section 217 IPC and Section 4 of the SC/ST Act while acquitting him of Section 218 IPC and Section 3(2)(i).",
 "summary_verified": "Newly married inter-caste couple a Pudukkoorapettai man and a Pudukkoorapettai woman died on 8 July 2003 and their bodies were cremated in haste; Inspector manufactured an extrajudicial confession, falsely implicated three Dalit men, arrested them, recorded their police confessions and effected make-believe seizures, while Sub-Inspector registered the FIR thereafter. The CBI investigated and the Special Court convicted thirteen accused. The Division Bench held the fabrication by [name withheld] proved, dismissed his appeal and confirmed his life sentence with the Rs.3,00,000-each compensation to the three victims' side, and confirmed [name withheld]'s conviction under Section 217 IPC and Section 4 of the SC/ST Act while acquitting him of Section 218 IPC and Section 3(2)(i).",
 "court_quote": "it was only [name withheld] (A.15), with the knowledge of his [name withheld], who had falsely implicated a Pudukkoorapettai man (P.W.1), a Pudukkoorapettai man (P.W.33) and a Pudukkoorapettai man, all Dalits, in this case, arrested them, recorded their police confessions and effected make-believe seizures.",
 "court_quote_para": "222",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed Inspector's appeal confirming life term for fabricating evidence; SI conviction u/s 217 IPC and s.4 SC/ST Act confirmed.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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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   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "R.T. No.4 of 2021 and Crl.A. Nos.483, 504, 522, 523, 524 and 626 of 2021",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "date": "2022-06-08",
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   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "R.T. No.4 of 2021 and Crl.A. Nos.483, 504, 522, 523, 524 and 626 of 2021",
   "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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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/tn-honour-killing-case-supreme-court-upholds-life-sentence-of-police-inspector-for-fabricating-evidence-against-dalits-290616",
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