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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0463",
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 "display_title": "S. Thirumalai Muthusamy v. State; B. Ravichandran & Anr. v. State",
 "display_title_redacted": "S. Thirumalai Muthusamy v. State; B. Ravichandran & Anr. v. State",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Dindigul",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Vadamadurai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vadamadurai PS",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "S. Thirumalai Muthusamy v. State; B. Ravichandran & Anr. v. State",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD) Nos. 222 and 223 of 2021",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.K. Ramakrishnan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-03-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2010-04-04",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II/34",
  "IPC 166"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "S. Thirumalai Muthusamy",
   "rank": null,
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Vadamadurai PS, Dindigul",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.95,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "S. Thirumalai Muthusamy",
   "display": "S. Thirumalai Muthusamy"
  },
  {
   "name": "B. Ravichandran",
   "rank": null,
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Vadamadurai PS, Dindigul",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "B. Ravichandran",
   "display": "B. Ravichandran"
  },
  {
   "name": "K. Ponram",
   "rank": null,
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Vadamadurai PS, Dindigul",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.11,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.91,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "K. Ponram",
   "display": "K. Ponram"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Vadamadurai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144552315/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Remove victim name 'soldier a Vadamadurai man' — judgment names no such victim; 'a Vadamadurai man' appears only as 'Mr.a Vadamadurai man, learned Additional Public Prosecutor' (paras 5/head). Deceased is consistently 'the deceased military personnel' (paras 2, 7). Reword to 'a soldier' / 'the deceased military personnel'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Remove victim name 'soldier a Vadamadurai man' — judgment names no such victim; 'a Vadamadurai man' appears only as 'Mr.a Vadamadurai man, learned Additional Public Prosecutor' (paras 5/head). Deceased is consistently 'the deceased military personnel' (paras 2, 7). Reword to 'a soldier' / 'the deceased military personnel'.",
 "court_quote": "Due to the egocentric attitude of the police officials, the deceased was brutally attacked by them and ultimately he died.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeals; 10-yr terms for 3 Vadamadurai policemen confirmed.",
 "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": "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": null,
   "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": "Crl.A.(MD) Nos. 222 and 223 of 2021",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-03-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "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": "Crl.A.(MD) Nos. 222 and 223 of 2021",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144552315/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-039",
 "officers_named_public": 3,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}