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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0039",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1296",
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 "display_title": "Thiruvattar Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Thiruvattar Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Kanyakumari",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Thiruvattar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Thiruvattar Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Thiruvattar Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No.2584 of 2016 and W.M.P.(MD) No.2295 of 2016",
 "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 109",
 "judges": [
  "R. Vijayakumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-03-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2010-02-16",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956",
  "Constitution Art.21"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Thiruvattar Police Station, Kanyakumari District",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Thiruvattar Police Station, Kanyakumari District"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Thiruvattar woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/x-v-state-and-others-466623.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/madras-high-court-directs-state-compensate-woman-falsely-implicated-immoral-traffic-act-225409",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/04/06/madras-hc-directs-state-to-pay-rs-2-lakh-compensation-to-woman-falsely-accused-of-immoral-trafficking-legal-research-legal-news-updates/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Thiruvattar woman was arrested on 16.02.2010 in Crime No.91 of 2010 under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and detained 13 days on a complaint the Court found was fabricated from blank signed papers of a traffic offender. A DSP, District Crime Branch, Nagercoil enquiry reported on 29.04.2011 that the case was foisted and recommended withdrawal; the charge sheet was quashed on 26.06.2015 but no action was taken against the erring officials. On 29.03.2023 the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court held the foisted case and arrest sullied her privacy and reputation, for which the State is responsible. The Court directed the State to pay Rs.2,00,000 compensation within 8 weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring police officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Thiruvattar woman was arrested on 16.02.2010 in Crime No.91 of 2010 under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and detained 13 days on a complaint the Court found was fabricated from blank signed papers of a traffic offender. A DSP, District Crime Branch, Nagercoil enquiry reported on 29.04.2011 that the case was foisted and recommended withdrawal; the charge sheet was quashed on 26.06.2015 but no action was taken against the erring officials. On 29.03.2023 the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court held the foisted case and arrest sullied her privacy and reputation, for which the State is responsible. The Court directed the State to pay Rs.2,00,000 compensation within 8 weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring police officials.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above said undisputed facts, it is clear that the right of privacy and reputation of the writ petitioner have been sullied by the act of the police officials for which the State is certainly responsible.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held Thiruvattar police foisted a false ITP Act case; Rs.2 lakh compensation with liberty to recover from erring officials.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2023-03-29",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 109",
   "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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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-89-001",
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