{ "case_id": "t2w2-14-014", "alias_case_ids": [], "verification_status": "V2", "gate_status": "V2", "verify_passes": { "t2w2-14-014": { "mverify": "accept", "mverify2": "accept" } }, "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-073", "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:22:00+00:00", "verdict_note": "FTC-III Vridhachalam common judgment 31.05.2004 (A-1/A-2 life) confirmed in Madras HC 04.12.2006; murder convictions confirmed, A-3 reduced to s.323 + admonition.", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Cuddalore", "court": "Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court No. III), Vridhachalam", "court_level": "sessions", "trial_court_name": "Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court No. III), Vridhachalam (SC Nos. 183/1995 & 150/1997)", "case_title": "State (CBCID) v. Cuddalore Police Sub-Inspector (A-1) and others", "case_number": "SC Nos. 183 of 1995 & 150 of 1997", "conviction_date": "2004-05-31", "conviction_year": 2004, "date_precision": "day", "incident_date": "1993-03-22", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "brutality", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death", "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction", "officers": [ { "rank": "Sub-Inspector (A-1)", "unit": "Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector (A-1), Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "key2_union": "yes", "name": null }, { "rank": "Police Constable (A-2)", "unit": "Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable (A-2), Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "key2_union": "yes", "name": null }, { "rank": "Police Constable (A-3)", "unit": "Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable (A-3), Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "key2_union": "yes", "name": null }, { "rank": "Inspector of Police (A-5; accepted conviction, no appeal)", "unit": "Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police (A-5; accepted conviction, no appeal), Kammapuram Police Station, Cuddalore", "key2_union": "no", "name": null } ], "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Cuddalore man" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" }, { "name": null, "descriptor": "Cuddalore resident" } ], "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 34", "IPC 120-B", "IPC 342", "IPC 348", "IPC 330", "IPC 323", "IPC 324", "IPC 331", "IPC 326", "IPC 354", "IPC 201", "IPC 218", "IPC 217", "IPC 220" ], "sentence": "A-1 and A-2: life imprisonment + Rs 2,000 fine each (302) plus separate sentences on confinement/hurt/evidence counts; A-3: various imprisonment terms (331/326/354); A-2 and A-5: fine only on 201/217/218 counts; A-4 (SI) and A-6 (Dr. Ramachandiran) acquitted", "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "appeal_status": "upheld", "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165147/", "source_kind": "judgment", "source_agency": null, "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165147/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court No. III), Vridhachalam, in a common judgment dated 31 May 2004 in SC Nos. 183 of 1995 and 150 of 1997 (CBCID Crime No. 5 of 1994), convicted an SI, two constables and an Inspector of Kammapuram police station for picking up burglary suspect [name withheld] (Kurava community, Mudhanai village) and eight of his relatives between 20 and 22 March 1993, illegally detaining and lathi-beating them in the station โ€” [name withheld] was stripped, tied to a window and beaten black and blue on 22 March 1993 in front of his wife who had brought food โ€” killing him that afternoon, dumping his naked body near Kuruvallappar Koil (passed off as an unidentified 304A death), and fabricating an escape story with a man-missing entry. A-1 and A-2 received life terms for murder. The Madras High Court (Justices R. Balasubramanian and A.C. Arumugaperumal Adityan, Crl.A. Nos. 735, 738 of 2004, 4 December 2006) confirmed the murder, confinement, hurt and evidence convictions of A-1 and A-2 (converting 302/120-B/34 to 302/34 and 324 to 323, sentences maintained), while acquitting A-3 of sections 331/326/354 (convicting him under section 323 with admonition under the Probation of Offenders Act) and dismissing the [name withheld] appeal against A-6's acquittal.", "court_quote": "Crl.A.Nos.735 and 738 of 2004 against the judgment and conviction dated 31.5.2004 made in S.C.No.183 of 1995 on the file of Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court No.3), Vridhachalam.", "confidence": "high", "tier": "Tier A โ€” Externally reported or officially recorded", "source_job": "t2w2-14", "r8_check": { "date": "2026-09-19", "member_verdicts": { "t2w2-14-014": "holds" }, "applied": [], "noted": [] }, "verification_badge": "V2 ยท 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": "t2w2-14-014=holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "case_title_or_number": "State (CBCID) v. Cuddalore Police Sub-Inspector (A-1) and others", "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }