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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "[name withheld] Madurai Woman & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] Madurai Woman & Ors.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Madurai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Madurai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Thilagar Thidal Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "[name withheld] Madurai Woman & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.A. (MD) Nos. 1155 of 2020, 1200 and 1216 of 2019",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "G. R. Swaminathan",
  "M. Jothiraman"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-02-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2019-01-14",
 "incident_year": 2019,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "CrPC 46(4)",
  "IPC 448",
  "IPC 294(b)",
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 506(i)"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai City",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai City"
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   "unit": "Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai City",
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   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai City"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Woman Head Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "C4 Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai City",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Woman Head Constable, C4 Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai City"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Madurai woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/67a61de3a1572e13dd1c6c42",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Madurai woman was arrested at about 8 p.m. on 14 January 2019, forcibly taken to the police station where she was abused, beaten and cut, then hospitalised and remanded the next day. A single judge held the after-sunset arrest of a woman illegal for breach of section 46(4) CrPC, directed departmental action and Rs.50,000 costs recoverable from the officers' salaries. On 7 February 2025 the Division Bench allowed the appeals of Inspector and Woman Head Constable for want of definite material against them. It dismissed Sub-Inspector's appeal, holding she had not made fair disclosure since her counter contradicted her own remand report, so the costs and departmental-action directions stand as against her.",
 "summary_verified": "A Madurai woman was arrested at about 8 p.m. on 14 January 2019, forcibly taken to the police station where she was abused, beaten and cut, then hospitalised and remanded the next day. A single judge held the after-sunset arrest of a woman illegal for breach of section 46(4) CrPC, directed departmental action and Rs.50,000 costs recoverable from the officers' salaries. On 7 February 2025 the Division Bench allowed the appeals of Inspector and Woman Head Constable for want of definite material against them. It dismissed Sub-Inspector's appeal, holding she had not made fair disclosure since her counter contradicted her own remand report, so the costs and departmental-action directions stand as against her.",
 "court_quote": "For this reason, we decline relief to her. W.A(MD)No.1155 of 2020 stands dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "24",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SI 's appeal dismissed; Rs.50,000 costs + dept action stand; 2 co-officers exonerated.",
 "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": [
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   "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"
  }
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  {
   "date": "2025-02-07",
   "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 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.A. (MD) Nos. 1155 of 2020, 1200 and 1216 of 2019",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "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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