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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0016",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0650",
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 "display_title": "Alathur Man v. V. R. Raneesh",
 "display_title_redacted": "Alathur Man v. V. R. Raneesh",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Palakkad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Alathur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Alathur Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Alathur Man v. V. R. Raneesh",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Devan Ramachandran"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-09-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 2024,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "V. R. Raneesh",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Alathur Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "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": "V. R. Raneesh",
   "display": "V. R. Raneesh (Sub-Inspector)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Alathur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.167,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/20290000175202416-563345.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/kerala-high-court-orders-two-months-jail-alathur-si-verbally-abused-lawyer",
  "https://lawchakra.in/high-court/let-this-be-an-example-kerala-hc-jailed-police/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Advocate an Alathur man complained that Sub-Inspector V. R. Raneesh of Alathur Police Station insulted him with abusive language and expletives and threatened physical abuse when he visited the station to comply with a Magistrate's order, in violation of the Court's earlier directions against derogatory police language. The officer tendered an apology and submitted to the contempt jurisdiction. Justice Devan Ramachandran convicted him of criminal contempt, imposed two months' simple imprisonment suspended for one year on condition of good conduct, and said the sentence should be an example to all officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Advocate an Alathur man complained that Sub-Inspector V. R. Raneesh of Alathur Police Station insulted him with abusive language and expletives and threatened physical abuse when he visited the station to comply with a Magistrate's order, in violation of the Court's earlier directions against derogatory police language. The officer tendered an apology and submitted to the contempt jurisdiction. Justice Devan Ramachandran convicted him of criminal contempt, imposed two months' simple imprisonment suspended for one year on condition of good conduct, and said the sentence should be an example to all officers.",
 "court_quote": "In the afore circumstances, I order this Contempt of Court Case, sentencing the first respondent to two months of simple imprisonment under the provisions of Contempt of Court Act; however, suspending the same for a period of one year.",
 "court_quote_para": "36",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC contempt conviction verified via 3+ independent reports; 2 months SI suspended for one year.",
 "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": "2024-09-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Kerala High Court judgment 2024-09-04",
   "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",
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    "court_quote_para",
    "sections",
    "primary_source_url"
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/20290000175202416-563345.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/kerala-high-court-orders-two-months-jail-alathur-si-verbally-abused-lawyer",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://lawchakra.in/high-court/let-this-be-an-example-kerala-hc-jailed-police/",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-014",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}