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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0036",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1299",
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 "display_title": "Dindigul Resident and Others v. Superintendent of Police, Dindigul District",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dindigul Resident and Others v. Superintendent of Police, Dindigul District",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Dindigul",
 "district_at_time": null,
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 "police_station_or_unit": "Dindigul District Police",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Dindigul Resident and Others v. Superintendent of Police, Dindigul District",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No.7380 of 2016 and W.M.P.(MD) No.6201 of 2016",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. Srimathy"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-02-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "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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   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Dindigul District Police",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Dindigul District Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
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   "unit": "Dindigul District Police",
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   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Police personnel, Dindigul District Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Dindigul resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35790241/",
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 "summary": "Three serving Dindigul policemen faced a custodial-death complaint; the NHRC enquired, ordered compensation to the victim's family, and directed the Government to pay and recover from the policemen, yielding recovery orders dated 06.11.2015 and 10.12.2015. The policemen challenged the recovery before the Madurai Bench, which had earlier stayed recovery subject to the outcome of the criminal proceedings. The Government reported that all three were convicted in the criminal case on 27.04.2021. On 23.02.2023 the Court therefore declined to entertain the petition and dismissed it, keeping the compensation recovery alive with liberty to revive their rights if acquitted on appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "Three serving Dindigul policemen faced a custodial-death complaint; the NHRC enquired, ordered compensation to the victim's family, and directed the Government to pay and recover from the policemen, yielding recovery orders dated 06.11.2015 and 10.12.2015. The policemen challenged the recovery before the Madurai Bench, which had earlier stayed recovery subject to the outcome of the criminal proceedings. The Government reported that all three were convicted in the criminal case on 27.04.2021. On 23.02.2023 the Court therefore declined to entertain the petition and dismissed it, keeping the compensation recovery alive with liberty to revive their rights if acquitted on appeal.",
 "court_quote": "Since the criminal proceedings ended in conviction, this Writ Petition stands dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed convicted policemen's challenge, sustaining NHRC compensation recovery for 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"
 ],
 "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": "2023-02-23",
   "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 compensation in an amount stated in the judgment.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(MD) No.7380 of 2016 and W.M.P.(MD) No.6201 of 2016",
   "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": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Compensation ordered by the NHRC (recoverable from the three policemen) with no fixed amount in the order; the High Court kept the recovery in force."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35790241/",
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 },
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