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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0037",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1301",
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 "display_title": "Thiruppuvanam Man v. The Home Secretary and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Thiruppuvanam Man v. The Home Secretary and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Sivagangai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Thiruppuvanam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Thiruppuvanam Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Thiruppuvanam Man v. The Home Secretary and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(MD) Nos.22169 and 22170 of 2021",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.K. Ramakrishnan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-05-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2010-07-26",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 294(b)",
  "IPC 420",
  "IPC 506(ii)",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Thiruppuvanam Police Station, Sivagangai District",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Police personnel, Thiruppuvanam Police Station, Sivagangai District"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Thiruppuvanam Police Station, Sivagangai District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Thiruppuvanam Police Station, Sivagangai District"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Thiruppuvanam man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16672997/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Thiruppuvanam man was picked up after midnight on 26.07.2010 by SI and HC of Thiruppuvanam Police Station, brutally beaten in custody, released the same night, and admitted to Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai with internal injuries. The officers then foisted a sand-theft case (Crime No.283/2010) on him, which ended in acquittal in C.C. No.240/2019; a DSP enquiry and departmental proceedings recorded custodial torture against the two officers, though the punishment was later recalled without stated reason. On 15.05.2025 the Madurai Bench held the departmental enquiry finding still holds good, ordered the two officers to personally pay Rs.5 lakh compensation (Rs.2.5 lakh each) within two weeks, and directed the DGP to decide afresh through an IG-rank officer whether the punishment is sustainable, listing compliance on 02.12.2025. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Thiruppuvanam man was picked up after midnight on 26.07.2010 by SI and HC of Thiruppuvanam Police Station, brutally beaten in custody, released the same night, and admitted to Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai with internal injuries. The officers then foisted a sand-theft case (Crime No.283/2010) on him, which ended in acquittal in C.C. No.240/2019; a DSP enquiry and departmental proceedings recorded custodial torture against the two officers, though the punishment was later recalled without stated reason. On 15.05.2025 the Madurai Bench held the departmental enquiry finding still holds good, ordered the two officers to personally pay Rs.5 lakh compensation (Rs.2.5 lakh each) within two weeks, and directed the DGP to decide afresh through an IG-rank officer whether the punishment is sustainable, listing compliance on 02.12.2025.",
 "court_quote": "The petitioner is entitled to receive compensation of Rs.5 Lakhs from the 5th and 6th respondents.",
 "court_quote_para": "9.1",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held departmental torture finding still good; two Thiruppuvanam officers to personally pay Rs.5 lakh; DGP to revisit punishment.",
 "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 torture",
   "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": "2025-05-15",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(MD) Nos.22169 and 22170 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",
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   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  }
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-90-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}