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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0055",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1329",
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 "display_title": "Chennai Man v. State (NDPS Case - Fabricated Evidence)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chennai Man v. State (NDPS Case - Fabricated Evidence)",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chennai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "V4 Rajamangalam Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court (Principal Seat)",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court (Principal Seat)",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chennai Man v. State (NDPS Case - Fabricated Evidence)",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 1202 of 2025",
 "citation": "2025 LiveLaw (Mad) (unreported)",
 "judges": [
  "G.K. Ilanthiraiyan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-08-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2021-12-06",
 "incident_year": 2021,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "Section 8(c) r/w 20(b)(ii)(C), NDPS Act",
  "Section 50, NDPS Act"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "V4 Rajamangalam Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, V4 Rajamangalam Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "V4 Rajamangalam Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, V4 Rajamangalam Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chennai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/13125224/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Madras High Court acquitted [name withheld] in an NDPS case where he was convicted for possession of 20.3 kg of ganja. The Single Judge found that the police had fabricated the case: the seizure mahazar, arrest report, and arrest intimation all contained the crime number (Crime No. 931 of 2021) before the FIR was even registered. The court noted the prosecution failed to examine any independent witness from the public despite the alleged seizure occurring in a marketplace. The informant and investigating officer were the same person (PW1), and all documents were typed, indicating they were prepared in the police station rather than at the scene. The court applied the Supreme Court's ruling in Kaaljit Singh v. State of Punjab that such discrepancies create serious doubts fatal to the prosecution case.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court acquitted [name withheld] in an NDPS case where he was convicted for possession of 20.3 kg of ganja. The Single Judge found that the police had fabricated the case: the seizure mahazar, arrest report, and arrest intimation all contained the crime number (Crime No. 931 of 2021) before the FIR was even registered. The court noted the prosecution failed to examine any independent witness from the public despite the alleged seizure occurring in a marketplace. The informant and investigating officer were the same person (PW1), and all documents were typed, indicating they were prepared in the police station rather than at the scene. The court applied the Supreme Court's ruling in Kaaljit Singh v. State of Punjab that such discrepancies create serious doubts fatal to the prosecution case.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, the entire case of the prosecution is not legitimate and creates doubt over the case of the prosecution... the entire case of the prosecution is foisted one and the prosecution failed to prove the charge in the manner known to law.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 6-7",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "sections wrongly include 'Section 21, Indian Evidence Act' - the judgment never mentions any Evidence Act section (it cites NDPS ss. 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(C) & 22(C), s.50 NDPS, s.415 BNSS, and Art. 21 Constitution); remove.; Minor imprecision: summary says seizure occurred 'in a marketplace'; the judgment says the arrest took place at the market near Villivakkam railway station - essentially accurate, not a blocker.; Everything else verified: Crl.A. No. 1202 of 2025, G.K. Ilanthiraiyan, decided 12.08.2025; 20.3 kg ganja, Crime No. 931 of 2021, V4 Rajamangalam PS Chennai, incident 06.12.2021; trial court 10-year RI + Rs 1 lakh fine conviction set aside; acquittal; quote verbatim (paras 6 and 6.1); fabrication found (crime number in seizure mahazar/arrest memo before FIR registration, informant = IO, no independent witness).",
 "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": "2025-08-12",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court (Principal Seat)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court (Principal Seat) recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "2025 LiveLaw (Mad) (unreported)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/13125224/",
   "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": [
  "swarm-verify-cop-tn-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-tn-hc-5",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}