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 "case_id": "t2w2-14-005",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-072",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:17:35Z",
 "verdict_note": "Madras HC text confirms Pr. Sessions Judge Cuddalore convicted 6 policemen (SC 99/1993; 10yr under 376(2) for 4); appeals dismissed 28.11.2002 with modifications.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Cuddalore",
 "court": "Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore (Sessions Case No. 99 of 1993)",
 "case_title": "State (CBCID) v. Cuddalore Police Sub-Inspector (A-1)",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case No. 99 of 1993",
 "conviction_date": "1997-09-04",
 "conviction_year": 1997,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1992-05-30",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (A-1)",
   "unit": "Chidambaram Town Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (A-1), Chidambaram Town Police Station",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (A-2)",
   "unit": "Annamalainagar Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (A-2), Annamalainagar Police Station",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable (A-3)",
   "unit": "Chidambaram Town Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Mehboob Batcha",
   "display": "Mehboob Batcha (Head Constable (A-3))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Mehboob Batcha"
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (A-6)",
   "unit": "Killai Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "S. Parthasaraty",
   "display": "S. Parthasaraty (Police Constable (A-6))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "S. Parthasaraty"
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (A-8)",
   "unit": "Annamalainagar Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (A-8), Annamalainagar Police Station",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (A-10)",
   "unit": "Annamalainagar Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Karunanidhi",
   "display": "Karunanidhi (Police Constable (A-10))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Karunanidhi"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Cuddalore man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Cuddalore woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 354",
  "IPC 376(2)(a)(i)(ii)(iii)(b)(g)",
  "IPC 218"
 ],
 "sentence": "A-3, A-6, A-8, A-10: 10 years RI + Rs 5,000 fine each (section 376(2)) plus 3-year RI terms on other counts; A-1, A-2: 3 years RI + fine each; sentences concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/421778/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/26071083/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1031104/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/421778/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/806082/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore (Sessions Case No. 99 of 1993, CBCID Crime Nos. 160-162/1992) on 4 September 1997 convicted two sub-inspectors, a head constable and three constables who, as a special theft-detection team, wrongfully confined [name withheld] at Annamalainagar police station from 30 May to 2 June 1992 on suspicion of theft and beat him to death with lathis and boots, while gang-raping his wife [name withheld] inside the station and beating other detained witnesses. The court sentenced the four rapist-constables to 10 years RI each under section 376(2) IPC plus 3-year terms under sections 348, 330 and 354, and the two sub-inspectors to 3 years RI each (sections 218, 323, 348; A-2 also section 220), remarkably without any murder charge being framed. The Madras High Court confirmed the convictions on 28 November 2002 and the Supreme Court (Mehboob Batcha v. [name withheld], 29 March 2011) dismissed the appeal, lamenting that custodial murder by policemen deserved the death penalty.",
 "court_quote": "They being members of a special team of police officers, formed to nab the culprits involved in various offences of theft in and around Chidambaram, wrongfully confined a man from the early hours of 30.5.1992 till 2.6.1992.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-14",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
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  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2w2-14-005=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (CBCID) v. Cuddalore Police Sub-Inspector (A-1) and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}