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 "display_title": "The Director General of Police and Others vs Thirukoilur Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police (Head Constable at relevant time)",
 "display_title_redacted": "The Director General of Police and Others vs Thirukoilur Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police (Head Constable at relevant time)",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Kallakurichi",
 "district_at_time": "Villupuram",
 "city_town": "Thirukoilur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Arakandanallur Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
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 "case_title": "The Director General of Police and Others vs Thirukoilur Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police (Head Constable at relevant time)",
 "case_number": "W.A. No.1850 of 2026",
 "citation": "2026:MHC:2846",
 "judges": [
  "S.M. Subramaniam",
  "N. Senthilkumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-07-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2014-11-25",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "TN Police Subordinate Services (D&A) Rules 1955 Rule 3(b)"
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   "rank": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police (Head Constable at relevant time)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Arakandanallur Police Station",
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   "display": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police (Head Constable at relevant time), Arakandanallur Police Station"
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/18/2026mhc2846-verdictum-1781097.pdf",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Special Sub-Inspector appeared drunk to depose before the Judicial Magistrate, Thirukoilur, on 25 November 2014; he was compulsorily retired, modified on appeal to postponement of increment for three years with cumulative effect. The Writ Court had quashed the penalty for want of blood and urine tests, but the Division Bench held that departmental proof needs only preponderance of probabilities and that the Drunkenness Certificate with the Magistrate contemporaneous observation sufficed. The court allowed the State appeal, restoring the penalty, and directed the DGP to issue a decorum circular for police deposing in courts.",
 "summary_verified": "Special Sub-Inspector appeared drunk to depose before the Judicial Magistrate, Thirukoilur, on 25 November 2014; he was compulsorily retired, modified on appeal to postponement of increment for three years with cumulative effect. The Writ Court had quashed the penalty for want of blood and urine tests, but the Division Bench held that departmental proof needs only preponderance of probabilities and that the Drunkenness Certificate with the Magistrate contemporaneous observation sufficed. The court allowed the State appeal, restoring the penalty, and directed the DGP to issue a decorum circular for police deposing in courts.",
 "court_quote": "Witnesses including the police officials, while deposing before the Courts, in connection with the criminal cases or any other case, are expected to maintain decorum and discipline and depose the statement in a truthful manner. This being the settled legal position, any misconduct committed inside a Court Hall cannot, under any circumstances, be tolerated.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC allowed State appeal, restored increment-cut penalty for drunkenness inside court hall.",
 "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": "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2026-07-14",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2026:MHC:2846",
   "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)",
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