{ "case_id": "t2w2-14-011", "alias_case_ids": [], "verification_status": "V2", "gate_status": "V2", "verify_passes": { "t2w2-14-011": { "mverify": "accept", "mverify2": "accept" } }, "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-073", "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:22:00+00:00", "verdict_note": "SC 11/1995 conviction (24.06.2002, 6 police + doctor) confirmed via SC 17.09.2025 order + PTI report of HC 29.10.2018; officer names/sections need HC text - backfill.", "state": "Puducherry", "district": "Puducherry", "court": "Court of II Additional Sessions Judge, Puducherry", "court_level": "sessions", "trial_court_name": "Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Pondicherry (SC No. 11/1995)", "case_title": "State (Cr. No. 333/1993, Odiansalai PS) v. Police personnel & Anr", "case_number": "SC No. 11/1995", "conviction_date": "2002-06-24", "conviction_year": 2002, "date_precision": "day", "incident_date": "1993-12-29", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "brutality", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death", "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction", "officers": [ { "rank": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated)", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated), Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "key2_union": "yes", "name": null }, { "rank": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated)", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated), Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "key2_union": "yes", "name": null }, { "rank": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated)", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated), Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "key2_union": "yes", "name": null }, { "rank": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated)", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated), Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "key2_union": "no", "name": null }, { "rank": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated)", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated), Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "key2_union": "no", "name": null }, { "rank": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated)", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Puducherry Police (rank not stated), Odiansalai Police Station, Pondicherry", "key2_union": "no", "name": null } ], "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Puducherry man" } ], "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II (A-2, A-3, A-4; affirmed by SC)", "IPC 201 Part II r/w 34 (A-7, A-8; set aside by SC 17.09.2025)", "A-6 tea-shop owner (civilian, not police; conviction set aside by SC)", "IPC 201 Part II (A-11 doctor; conviction kept, sentence modified to Rs 1,00,000 fine)" ], "sentence": "3 policemen: 7 years RI each; 3 policemen: 1 year RI each (doctor A-11: 1 year RI, later modified by Supreme Court to Rs 1,00,000 fine)", "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7, "appeal_status": "upheld", "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/186698677/", "source_kind": "judgment", "source_agency": null, "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/186698677/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html" ], "summary": "The Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Pondicherry (SC No. 11/1995, Cr. No. 333/1993 Odiansalai PS) on 24 June 2002 convicted six Puducherry policemen and a government doctor for the custodial beating to death of a Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man, brought to Odiansalai police station for interrogation on 29 December 1993, manhandled and brutally injured by the police accused and declared dead at hospital; the prosecution case turned on discrepancies between the first post-mortem (shock due to haemorrhage from cirrhotic varices, only two injuries noted) and a second autopsy (shock from multiple blunt-instrument injuries). Three policemen received seven years RI each and three policemen plus the doctor one year RI each; one policeman died during trial and three were acquitted. The Madras High Court (Justice M.V. Muralidaran, common judgment 29 October 2018 in Crl.A. No. 1051 of 2002 batch) upheld the convictions, and the Supreme Court (Justice Nagarathna, Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019, 17 September 2025) kept the doctor's conviction while modifying his sentence to a fine. Officer names, ranks and exact sections need the HC judgment or trial records.", "court_quote": "he was manhandled and brutally injured by accused Nos.1 to 4 police officers, due to which he sustained injuries. He was declared dead on being brought to the hospital.", "confidence": "medium", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "source_job": "t2w2-14", "r8_check": { "date": "2026-09-19", "member_verdicts": { "t2w2-14-011": "wrong_facts" }, "applied": [ "sections" ], "noted": [ "t2w2-14-011:appeal_status", "t2w2-14-011:officers" ] }, "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "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": "t2w2-14-011=wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "sections" ] } ], "case_title_or_number": "State v. Puducherry Police Puducherry Police (rank not stated) & Anr (Puducherry Man @ Puducherry Man custodial death, 1993); SC No. 11/1995", "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }