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 "case_id": "t2w2-04-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-054 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:40:03Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction of both police officers confirmed; Madras HC (08-06-2022) and SC (28-04-2025, 2025 INSC 576) upheld convictions.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Cuddalore",
 "court": "Special Court for Exclusive Trial of SC/ST (PoA) Act Cases, Cuddalore",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court for Exclusive Trial of SC/ST (PoA) Act Cases, Cuddalore",
 "case_title": "State (CBI, RC3(S)/2004/CBI/SCB/Chennai) v. Tamil Nadu Police Sub-Inspector (A-14) & Ors — Cuddalore Woman-Cuddalore Man honour killing (2003)",
 "case_number": "S.C. No.3 of 2019",
 "conviction_date": "2021-09-24",
 "conviction_year": 2021,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2003-07-07",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "raw_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (A-14)",
   "unit": "Tamil Nadu Police",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "K.P. Tamilmaran",
   "display": "K.P. Tamilmaran (Sub-Inspector (A-14))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "K.P. Tamilmaran"
  },
  {
   "rank": "Inspector (A-15)",
   "unit": "Tamil Nadu Police",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "M. Sellamuthu",
   "display": "M. Sellamuthu (Inspector (A-15))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "M. Sellamuthu"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Cuddalore woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Cuddalore man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 217",
  "IPC 218",
  "SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 s.3(2)(i)",
  "SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 s.4"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial court sentenced both police officers to life imprisonment (13 of 15 accused convicted; main accused A-2 given death). Madras HC (8 June 2022) maintained Tamilmaran's conviction under IPC 217/SC-ST Act s.4 but reduced his sentence to 2 years RI; upheld [name withheld]'s life term. Supreme Court upheld all convictions 28 April 2025.",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/146992794/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/146992794/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "http://livelaw.in/amp/top-stories/supreme-court-upholds-convictions-in-kannagi-murugesan-honour-killing-case-of-tamil-nadu-290528",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/29817701/",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-conviction-11-including-2-police-officers-for-honor-killing-tn-couple",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/tn-honour-killing-case-supreme-court-upholds-life-sentence-of-police-inspector-for-fabricating-evidence-against-dalits-290616"
 ],
 "summary": "The Cuddalore Special Court for SC/ST (PoA) Act cases on 24 September 2021 convicted Sub-Inspector K.P. Tamilmaran and Inspector M. Sellamuthu under IPC sections 217/218 and the SC/ST Act for deliberately refusing to register the FIR and fabricating evidence to shield the killers of inter-[name withheld] couple a Cuddalore woman and a Cuddalore man, murdered in July 2003, sentencing both officers to life imprisonment. The court found they violated CrPC sections 154/157 and the Police Act to fulfil a [name withheld]-driven design. The Madras High Court confirmed the verdict in June 2022 (reducing only Tamilmaran's sentence to two years) and the Supreme Court upheld the convictions on 28 April 2025 (2025 INSC 576).",
 "court_quote": "There is no doubt in our mind that A-15 is guilty of the offences as held both by the Trial Court as well as the High Court in appeal.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-002": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2w2-04-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (CBI, RC3(S)/2004/CBI/SCB/Chennai) v. Tamil Nadu Police Sub-Inspector (A-14) & Ors — Cuddalore Woman-Cuddalore Man honour killing (2003), S.C. No.3 of 2019",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}