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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0033",
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 "display_title": "Chennai Man v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chennai Man v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chennai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chennai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "R-7 K.K. Nagar Police Station, Chennai",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chennai Man v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 13488 of 2005",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Anita Sumanth"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-06-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2002-11-29",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
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   "display": "Inspector of Police, R-7 K.K. Nagar PS, Chennai"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (L&O)",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector (L&O), R-7 K.K. Nagar PS, Chennai"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "R-7 K.K. Nagar PS, Chennai",
   "role": "held_liable",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "display": "Head Constable, R-7 K.K. Nagar PS, Chennai"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chennai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 2000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84698935/",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court (Justice Anita Sumanth) awarded Rs 20 lakh to ex-Sub-Inspector for illegal detention and custodial torture by R-7 K.K. Nagar police from 29 November to 3 December 2002. Pre-record custody, denied in police records, was proved because the police themselves took the petitioner (with his brother) to a private hospital and diagnostic centre and paid for treatment of his injuries. Calling the police records shamelessly false, the Court ordered payment by bank transfer in four weeks (8% interest on delay) and disciplinary proceedings against all three officers with enquiry concluded in 12 weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court (Justice Anita Sumanth) awarded Rs 20 lakh to ex-Sub-Inspector for illegal detention and custodial torture by R-7 K.K. Nagar police from 29 November to 3 December 2002. Pre-record custody, denied in police records, was proved because the police themselves took the petitioner (with his brother) to a private hospital and diagnostic centre and paid for treatment of his injuries. Calling the police records shamelessly false, the Court ordered payment by bank transfer in four weeks (8% interest on delay) and disciplinary proceedings against all three officers with enquiry concluded in 12 weeks.",
 "court_quote": "Such instances were both prior to and after 03.12.2002 and fortify the petitioner’s version of events, that he was in custody of the police even prior to 03.12.2002. This exposes yet again, the shamelessly false contents of the police records and counters.",
 "court_quote_para": "83",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon except operative para (fetch truncated); Rs 20L figure per agent full-text read.",
 "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": [
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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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2023-06-14",
   "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 2,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P. No. 13488 of 2005",
   "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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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84698935/",
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