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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:00:18Z",
 "verdict_note": "Sessions court convicted 2 constables of custodial murder (life); HC altered to s.304-II, 5 yrs RI.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional District Court and Sessions Court-VI, Kollam",
 "case_title": "State v. Jayakumar & M. Venugopal (Kollam Man custodial death)",
 "case_number": "SC No.808/2008",
 "conviction_date": "2014-11-28",
 "conviction_year": 2014,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2005-04-06",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (crime squad)",
   "unit": "East Police Station, Kollam",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Jayakumar",
   "display": "Jayakumar (Police Constable (crime squad))",
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   "name": "Jayakumar"
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   "name_public": "M. Venugopal",
   "display": "M. Venugopal (Police Constable (crime squad))",
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   "name": "M. Venugopal"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 37,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kollam man, age 37"
  }
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 302 r/w IPC 34",
  "IPC 348 r/w IPC 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial: life imprisonment plus Rs 1,00,000 fine each under s.302/34 (default 1 year RI), plus 2 years RI plus Rs 10,000 fine each under s.348/34, concurrent; Rs 2,00,000 fine to deceased's mother. On appeal (Kerala HC Crl.A.1267/2014, 07-01-2020): altered to 5 years RI under s.304 Part II/34; s.348/34 conviction and 2-year sentence confirmed; Rs 2,00,000 compensation retained.",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
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 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121952943/",
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 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121952943/",
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 "summary": "Additional District and Sessions Court-VI, Kollam convicted East PS crime-squad constables Jayakumar and M. Venugopal in SC No.808/2008 on 28-11-2014 for the custodial murder of a Kollam man (37), a mobile-phone theft suspect picked up from Sanker's Hospital on 06-04-2005 and tortured in their exclusive custody at the Sardar Vallabhai police museum lockup to extract a confession, rejecting their alibi defence. The trial court imposed life terms plus two-year terms for wrongful confinement with Rs 2 lakh to the victim's mother. The Kerala High Court (Justices A. Hariprasad and [name withheld], 07-01-2020) confirmed the torture findings but altered murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder (5 years RI each), keeping the s.348 conviction and compensation intact. NOTE: overlaps tier-1 record KERALA-001 (same conviction at HC level); T2-21 to merge.",
 "court_quote": "Accused Nos.1 and 2, who had been working as Police Constables in the East Police Station, Kollam, had been convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge-VI, Kollam in S.C.No.808/2008 for custodial murder, under Sections 302 and 348 r/w.34 of the Indian Penal Code.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
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 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-11-009=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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 "case_title_or_number": "State (CBCID Crime No.189/CR/KLM) vs Jayakumar and M. Venugopal — SC No.808/2008 (Kollam Man custodial death)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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