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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0053",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0868",
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 "display_title": "Alangulam Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Alangulam Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tenkasi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Alangulam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "All Women Police Station, Alangulam",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "Alangulam Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.Crl.(MD) No.3809 of 2026",
 "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 338",
 "judges": [
  "L. Victoria Gowri"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-07-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2026-04-18",
 "incident_year": 2026,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Dowry Prohibition Act 1961",
  "BNS"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "All Women Police Station, Alangulam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Alangulam"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "All Women Police Station, Alangulam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
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   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Alangulam"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Alangulam man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2026/07/p_p_a_v_state_of_tamil_nadu_others.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/police-pay-compensation-closing-dowry-complaint-not-registering-fir-542812",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/madras-hc-orders-two-women-cops-to-pay-1-lakh-each-for-trying-to-settle-dowry-dispute-instead-of-lodging-fir"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Justice L. Victoria Gowri held the Inspector and Sub-Inspector of AWPS Alangulam guilty of serious dereliction of statutory duty for closing a dowry complaint disclosing cognizable offences through a private part-refund settlement instead of registering an FIR. The court ordered each officer to pay Rs.1,00,000 compensation personally to the complainant by 24 July 2026 (Rs.2,00,000 total), declaring it final public-law accountability. Since the officers showed remorse and had undergone ten days suspension, the court permitted revocation of suspension and barred further departmental proceedings on the same matter. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Justice L. Victoria Gowri held the Inspector and Sub-Inspector of AWPS Alangulam guilty of serious dereliction of statutory duty for closing a dowry complaint disclosing cognizable offences through a private part-refund settlement instead of registering an FIR. The court ordered each officer to pay Rs.1,00,000 compensation personally to the complainant by 24 July 2026 (Rs.2,00,000 total), declaring it final public-law accountability. Since the officers showed remorse and had undergone ten days suspension, the court permitted revocation of suspension and barred further departmental proceedings on the same matter.",
 "court_quote": "Nevertheless, the lapse committed by respondents 2 and 3 cannot be ignored, since their failure to register a case despite allegations disclosing cognizable offences resulted in avoidable hardship and prejudice to the petitioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held AWPS officers guilty of dereliction for closing dowry complaint; Rs.1L each personal compensation.",
 "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": "2026-07-16",
   "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 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 338",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/police-pay-compensation-closing-dowry-complaint-not-registering-fir-542812",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/madras-hc-orders-two-women-cops-to-pay-1-lakh-each-for-trying-to-settle-dowry-dispute-instead-of-lodging-fir",
   "link_checked": null
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-40-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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