{ "record_id": "CW-2025-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0295", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police", "display_title_redacted": "Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police", "state": "Puducherry", "district": "Puducherry", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Puducherry", "police_station_or_unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police", "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "B.V. Nagarathna", "R. Mahadevan" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "1993-12-29", "incident_year": 1993, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police officer", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police officer", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police officer", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Puducherry man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of police accused Nos. 2 to 4 and affirmed their convictions and 7-year sentences for the custodial death of a Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man, who was brutally beaten at Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 and died of multiple blunt-force injuries. The Court held the Madras High Court was justified in affirming the trial court's judgment, while allowing the appeals of accused Nos. 6 to 8. In the companion appeal it upheld the doctor's Section 201 Part II conviction for the false first post-mortem but modified his one-year sentence to a Rs 1,00,000 fine payable to the Puducherry Legal Services Authority. Officer names and ranks are not stated in the available Supreme Court text.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of police accused Nos. 2 to 4 and affirmed their convictions and 7-year sentences for the custodial death of a Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man, who was brutally beaten at Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 and died of multiple blunt-force injuries. The Court held the Madras High Court was justified in affirming the trial court's judgment, while allowing the appeals of accused Nos. 6 to 8. In the companion appeal it upheld the doctor's Section 201 Part II conviction for the false first post-mortem but modified his one-year sentence to a Rs 1,00,000 fine payable to the Puducherry Legal Services Authority. Officer names and ranks are not stated in the available Supreme Court text.", "court_quote": "We find that the High Court was justified in affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence insofar as the appellants/accused Nos.2, 3 and 4 are concerned.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court dismissed appeals of police accused A2-A4, affirming convictions for custodial death; matches conviction_upheld.", "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 Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-29" ], "merged_case_id": "PUDUCH-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }