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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0361",
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 "display_title": "Mrs. Guduvancherry Woman vs The State Human Rights Commission, Tamil Nadu and Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mrs. Guduvancherry Woman vs The State Human Rights Commission, Tamil Nadu and Anr.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chengalpattu",
 "district_at_time": "Kanchipuram",
 "city_town": "Guduvancherry",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Guduvancherry Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mrs. Guduvancherry Woman vs The State Human Rights Commission, Tamil Nadu and Anr.",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 14267 of 2021",
 "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 90",
 "judges": [
  "Anita Sumanth, J.",
  "Mummineni Sudheer Kumar, J."
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-02-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2018-12-01",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "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": [
  "Constitution of India Article 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Guduvancherry Police Station",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.86,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Guduvancherry Police Station"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Guduvancherry woman"
  }
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 "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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/02/25/magitha-anna-christy-v-shrc-658270.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/madras-high-court-police-brutality-5-lakh-compensation-upheld-524520",
  "https://bharathorizon.com/politics/law-order/madras-hc-backs-shrcs-rs-5-lakh-fine-for-police-si.html"
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Sub-Inspector challenging an order of the State Human Rights Commission finding her guilty of custodial torture and awarding Rs 5 lakh compensation to victim [name withheld]. The Commission found that the officer assaulted the complainant with hands and lathi at Guduvancherry Police Station in December 2018, causing severe injuries across both knees, hands, and legs. The High Court observed that the serious allegations remained uncontroverted by the officer, indicating tacit admission, and deprecated her failure to file a counter or produce records. Finding no merit or grounds for interference under Article 226, the Division Bench left the compensation award and recommendation for disciplinary action intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Sub-Inspector challenging an order of the State Human Rights Commission finding her guilty of custodial torture and awarding Rs 5 lakh compensation to victim [name withheld]. The Commission found that the officer assaulted the complainant with hands and lathi at Guduvancherry Police Station in December 2018, causing severe injuries across both knees, hands, and legs. The High Court observed that the serious allegations remained uncontroverted by the officer, indicating tacit admission, and deprecated her failure to file a counter or produce records. Finding no merit or grounds for interference under Article 226, the Division Bench left the compensation award and recommendation for disciplinary action intact.",
 "court_quote": "Though the learned counsel for the petitioner tried to persuade us to interfere with the impugned order on the ground that the Respondent No.2 herein agreed to withdraw the complaint subject to payment of Rs.3,50,000/- during the course of her examination and thereby contending that the complaint is intended only to extract money from the petitioner, we are unable to agree with the said contention for the simple reason that the serious allegation of assault and abuse of power levelled against the petitioner herein in the complaint made before the respondent commission remained uncontroverted, thereby suggesting tacit admission on the part of the petitioner herein.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court dismissed SI writ petition challenging SHRC order awarding Rs 5 lakh compensation and recommending disciplinary action for custodial torture.",
 "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": [
  {
   "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2026-02-01",
   "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": "2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 90",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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)",
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