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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Kozhikode Man and Others vs Kozhikode Man and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kozhikode Man and Others vs Kozhikode Man and Others",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kozhikode",
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 "city_town": "Kozhikode",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Chevayur Police Station, Kozhikode",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "case_title": "Kozhikode Man and Others vs Kozhikode Man and Others",
 "case_number": "R.S.A. No. 853 of 2020",
 "citation": "2026:KER:33751",
 "judges": [
  "Easwaran S."
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 "judgment_date": "2026-05-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2010-03-02",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Circle Inspector",
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   "display": "Additional Sub Inspector, Crime Detachment Wing, Calicut City"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub Inspector",
   "unit": "SBCID, Kollam",
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   "display": "Sub Inspector, SBCID, Kollam"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kozhikode man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kozhikode man"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kozhikode woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 3,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/79204748/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 2 March 2010, the three appellant officers with a police force and a mobile crane came to the plaintiffs' residence and seized a car, following a traffic-fine confrontation and a Section 176 IPC case that the prosecution later withdrew. The court records that when a plaintiff demanded a receipt for the car key, the first defendant assaulted him while the other two held him, and that the elderly mother fainted. A departmental enquiry had found the officers guilty. The High Court dismissed the officers' second appeal, holding the assault was no part of official duty so the Kerala Police Act limitation bar did not apply, the seizure was unjustified, and sustained the Rs.5,00,000 decree with interest against the officers and the State jointly and severally.",
 "summary_verified": "On 2 March 2010, the three appellant officers with a police force and a mobile crane came to the plaintiffs' residence and seized a car, following a traffic-fine confrontation and a Section 176 IPC case that the prosecution later withdrew. The court records that when a plaintiff demanded a receipt for the car key, the first defendant assaulted him while the other two held him, and that the elderly mother fainted. A departmental enquiry had found the officers guilty. The High Court dismissed the officers' second appeal, holding the assault was no part of official duty so the Kerala Police Act limitation bar did not apply, the seizure was unjustified, and sustained the Rs.5,00,000 decree with interest against the officers and the State jointly and severally.",
 "court_quote": "The alleged assault on the plaintiffs 1 to 3 in the present case cannot be considered as one done in pursuance to the official duty at any rate.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Second-appeal dismissal verified; Rs 5L assault/seizure decree against 3 officers + State sustained.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": "2026-05-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala 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:KER:33751",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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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)",
   "result": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "officers"
   ]
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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