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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Thanjavur Man v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
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 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Thanjavur",
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 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "Thanjavur Man v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.33577 of 2005",
 "citation": "2023:MHC:3480",
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 "judgment_date": "2023-06-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2002-07-27",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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  "IPC 379",
  "CrPC 176",
  "Constitution Art.226"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Thanjavur man"
  }
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43635433/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Thanjavur man @ a Thanjavur man was picked up around 27.07.2002 for enquiry into electricity-wire theft, beaten with lathis in the station in his wife's presence, formally arrested on 01.08.2002, remanded, and died in custody on 07.08.2002. Though death occurred on 07.08.2002, the body was retained 48 hours and post-mortem conducted only on 09.08.2002, with the requisition itself dated 09.08.2002. On 26.06.2023 the Madras High Court held the authorities let the body decompose so all evidence of violence would stand effaced, calling it a calculated attempt of the police authorities. The Court allowed the writ petition and directed Rs.10,00,000 compensation for custodial torture and demise in police custody within four weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Thanjavur man @ a Thanjavur man was picked up around 27.07.2002 for enquiry into electricity-wire theft, beaten with lathis in the station in his wife's presence, formally arrested on 01.08.2002, remanded, and died in custody on 07.08.2002. Though death occurred on 07.08.2002, the body was retained 48 hours and post-mortem conducted only on 09.08.2002, with the requisition itself dated 09.08.2002. On 26.06.2023 the Madras High Court held the authorities let the body decompose so all evidence of violence would stand effaced, calling it a calculated attempt of the police authorities. The Court allowed the writ petition and directed Rs.10,00,000 compensation for custodial torture and demise in police custody within four weeks.",
 "court_quote": "It is all too apparent that the attempt of the authorities was to disrupt the integrity of the body and ensure its decomposition so that all evidence of violence would stand effaced / erased. This is a calculated attempt of the police authorities.",
 "court_quote_para": "30",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held police let body decompose to efface evidence of violence; Rs.10 lakh compensation for custodial torture and 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"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2023-06-26",
   "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 1,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2023:MHC:3480",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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