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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:12:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Thoothukudi sessions court gave 9 cops life for 1999 custodial death; PTI + SC appeal record confirm.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Thoothukudi",
 "court": "Additional Sessions Court, Thoothukudi",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Court, Thoothukudi district",
 "case_title": "State v. Thoothukudi Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (Inspector at time) and others (custodial death, Thalamuthu Nagar PS, 1999)",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case No. 223 of 2006",
 "conviction_date": "2025-04-05",
 "conviction_year": 2025,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1999-09-01",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (Inspector at time)",
   "unit": "Thalamuthu Nagar Police Station, Thoothukudi",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (Inspector at time), Thalamuthu Nagar Police Station, Thoothukudi",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
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   "unit": "Thalamuthu Nagar Police Station, Thoothukudi",
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   "display": "various, Thalamuthu Nagar Police Station, Thoothukudi",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Thoothukudi man"
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 "sections": [
  "IPC (sections not specified in accessed reports)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment to 9 convicts; 2 of 11 accused acquitted",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://lawbeat.in/supreme-court-judgments/sc-suspends-life-term-in-1999-custodial-death-case-flags-conflicting-evidence-1543923",
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/s-ramakrishnan-vs-revenue-divisional-officer-thoothukudi-district-tamil-nadu-2096722.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/latest-news-tn-court-sentences-dsp-8-others-to-life-imprisonment-in-custodial-death-case-6761239.html",
  "https://lawbeat.in/supreme-court-judgments/sc-suspends-life-term-in-1999-custodial-death-case-flags-conflicting-evidence-1543923",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3335909-court-hands-life-sentences-in-1999-custodial-death-case"
 ],
 "summary": "The Thoothukudi Additional Sessions Court sentenced nine police personnel, including a DSP who was inspector at the time, to life imprisonment for the 1999 custodial death of a man at Thalamuthu Nagar police station, acquitting two of eleven accused. The verdict came 26 years after the death, which an RDO enquiry in October 1999 had examined. The case was tried as Sessions Case No. 223 of 2006 under Section 302 IPC. In November 2025 the Supreme Court suspended the life sentence of one convict, a police officer at the time, pending his appeal in the Madras High Court.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-17+t2-18",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
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  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
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 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-17-012=holds, t2-18-011=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Official source added: Supreme Court order in Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP(Crl.) No. 15596/2025 (signed 28.11.2025; copy hosted by LawBeat), which records the trial court's life sentences in Sessions Case No. 223 of 2006 for the 1999 custodial death at Thalamuthu Nagar Police Station, and suspends the sentence of one convict (A-11) pending his appeal in the Madras High Court."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Thoothukudi Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (Inspector at time) and others (custodial death, Thalamuthu Nagar PS, 1999)",
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}