{ "state": "Puducherry", "slug": "puducherry", "count": 3, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/puducherry", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1999-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0293", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "C. V. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "display_title_redacted": "C. V. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "state": "Puducherry", "district": "Puducherry", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Puducherry", "police_station_or_unit": "Grand Bazaar Police Station, Pondicherry Police", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "C. V. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "case_number": "Crl.O.P. No. 167 of 1998", "citation": "(1999) 04 MAD CK 0016", "judges": [ "M. Karpagavinayagam" ], "judgment_date": "1999-04-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1993-07-30", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 366", "IPC 376(2)(a)(iii)", "IPC 376(2)(g)" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 6, "victims": [ { "age": 22, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Puducherry woman, age 22", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 22, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "the complainant" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/7900/c-vijaya-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Madras High Court recorded that prima facie materials proved 22-year-old the complainant, a Dalit woman, was gang-raped by Pondicherry Grand Bazaar police personnel who took her from Sitharasur village in a police van on the night of 29/30 July 1993 on the pretext of tracing a theft suspect. The Court noted the offence occurred in Tamil Nadu (Vellamai, Villupuram district) while she was in their custody, and held the Union Territory of Pondicherry vicariously liable as their employer. It directed the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 1,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered further investigation adding SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act provisions. The criminal trial outcome is not recorded in this order.", "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court recorded that prima facie materials proved 22-year-old Vijaya, a Dalit woman, was gang-raped by Pondicherry Grand Bazaar police personnel who took her from Sitharasur village in a police van on the night of 29/30 July 1993 on the pretext of tracing a theft suspect. The Court noted the offence occurred in Tamil Nadu (Vellamai, Villupuram district) while she was in their custody, and held the Union Territory of Pondicherry vicariously liable as their employer. It directed the Chief Secretary to pay Rs 1,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered further investigation adding SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act provisions. The criminal trial outcome is not recorded in this order.", "court_quote": "there are prima facie materials to prove that the victim [the complainant] was gang-raped by the Police personnel attached to the Pondicherry Grand Bazaar Police Station.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madras HC recorded prima facie custodial gang-rape by Pondicherry police and awarded Rs 1 lakh; matches adverse_finding_compensation.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1999-04-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madras High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madras High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1999) 04 MAD CK 0016", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "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 record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/7900/c-vijaya-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-29" ], "merged_case_id": "PUDUCH-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0838", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Puducherry Police personnel and others v. State by Superintendent of Police, CID", "display_title_redacted": "Puducherry Police personnel and others v. State by Superintendent of Police, CID", "state": "Puducherry", "district": "Puducherry", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Puducherry", "police_station_or_unit": "Odiansalai Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Puducherry Police personnel and others v. State by Superintendent of Police, CID", "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M. V. Muralidaran" ], "judgment_date": "2018-10-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "1993-12-29", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 201", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Odiansalai Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Odiansalai Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Odiansalai Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Puducherry man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=218102180900&title=sundararaj-vs-state-by-superintendent-of-police-cid", "secondary_sources": [ "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf", "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man was brought to Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 for interrogation and beaten to death by the station police officers; Assistant Surgeon V. Srinivasan (A11) then issued a false first post-mortem certificate attributing death to cirrhotic haemorrhage. A second post-mortem on 3 January 1994 showed death by shock from multiple blunt injuries. The II Additional Sessions Judge, Puducherry (S.C. No. 11/1995, 24.06.2002) convicted three policemen (A2-A4) under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC with seven years rigorous imprisonment plus Section 201 convictions, and convicted others including the doctor under Section 201. The High Court dismissed Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002 by common judgment dated 29 October 2018, upholding the convictions; the Supreme Court on 17 September 2025 affirmed the A2-A4 convictions while setting aside only the A6-A8 Section 201 convictions and reducing the doctors sentence to a fine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man was brought to Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 for interrogation and beaten to death by the station police officers; Assistant Surgeon V. Srinivasan (A11) then issued a false first post-mortem certificate attributing death to cirrhotic haemorrhage. A second post-mortem on 3 January 1994 showed death by shock from multiple blunt injuries. The II Additional Sessions Judge, Puducherry (S.C. No. 11/1995, 24.06.2002) convicted three policemen (A2-A4) under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC with seven years rigorous imprisonment plus Section 201 convictions, and convicted others including the doctor under Section 201. The High Court dismissed Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002 by common judgment dated 29 October 2018, upholding the convictions; the Supreme Court on 17 September 2025 affirmed the A2-A4 convictions while setting aside only the A6-A8 Section 201 convictions and reducing the doctors sentence to a fine.", "court_quote": "the public has lost faith in the police and had to seek help from the court for redress of grievances", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madras HC (M.V. Muralidaran, J.) common judgment 29.10.2018 in Crl.A. 995, 996, 1051/2002 upheld trial-court convictions for 1993 Odiansalai custodial death; corroborated by SC order 17.09.2025 and PTI report (HC full text paywalled).", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial death", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2018-10-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madras High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 995, 996 and 1051 of 2002", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=218102180900&title=sundararaj-vs-state-by-superintendent-of-police-cid", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-66" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-39-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0295", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police", "display_title_redacted": "Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police", "state": "Puducherry", "district": "Puducherry", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Puducherry", "police_station_or_unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police", "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "B.V. Nagarathna", "R. Mahadevan" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "1993-12-29", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police officer", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police officer", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police officer", "unit": "Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Puducherry man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of police accused Nos. 2 to 4 and affirmed their convictions and 7-year sentences for the custodial death of a Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man, who was brutally beaten at Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 and died of multiple blunt-force injuries. The Court held the Madras High Court was justified in affirming the trial court's judgment, while allowing the appeals of accused Nos. 6 to 8. In the companion appeal it upheld the doctor's Section 201 Part II conviction for the false first post-mortem but modified his one-year sentence to a Rs 1,00,000 fine payable to the Puducherry Legal Services Authority. Officer names and ranks are not stated in the available Supreme Court text.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of police accused Nos. 2 to 4 and affirmed their convictions and 7-year sentences for the custodial death of a Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man, who was brutally beaten at Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 and died of multiple blunt-force injuries. The Court held the Madras High Court was justified in affirming the trial court's judgment, while allowing the appeals of accused Nos. 6 to 8. In the companion appeal it upheld the doctor's Section 201 Part II conviction for the false first post-mortem but modified his one-year sentence to a Rs 1,00,000 fine payable to the Puducherry Legal Services Authority. Officer names and ranks are not stated in the available Supreme Court text.", "court_quote": "We find that the High Court was justified in affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence insofar as the appellants/accused Nos.2, 3 and 4 are concerned.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court dismissed appeals of police accused A2-A4, affirming convictions for custodial death; matches conviction_upheld.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial death", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-09-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. 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