### Validation event (DRAFT) -- Puducherry (2026-08-05)

**adjudication: MACHINE (registered rules); orchestrator countersign PENDING**

**Decider:** Puducherry (NAMAMI `state_id`='27') -- decision floor: walk complete=True, reconciled=100.0% (distinct external_id 19447 vs partition-recorded total 19447, threshold 98.9%). Moved-in (rows predating the walk start) = 120 (walk start source: TaskRun id=8633 started_at (first non-probe harvest_scriptome_namami run for state_id='27')). Values: `popper_v2_rung3_validation_puducherry_values.{json,md}` (30 instruments run; frozen queries verbatim; 5-way batched/standalone equivalence check identical).

**Machine verdicts:**

- **SURVIVES-LEG (17):** r3-b1-01, r3-b1-08, r3-b1-16, r3-b1-19, r3-b1-21, r3-b1-23, r3-b1-24, r3-b1-25, r3-b1-26, r3-b1-27, r3-b1-31, r3-b1-32, r3-b1-34, r3-b1-35, r3-b1-36, r3-b1-38, r3-b1-40
- **KILL-CANDIDATE (10):** r3-b1-02, r3-b1-11, r3-b1-12, r3-b1-13, r3-b1-14, r3-b1-15, r3-b1-17, r3-b1-29, r3-b1-30, r3-b1-37
- **REQUIRES-RE-DERIVATION (2):** r3-b1-10, r3-b1-20
- **CONTEXT-ONLY (1):** r3-b1-33

**KILL-CANDIDATE detail (graveyard furniture, machine-drafted):**

- **r3-b1-02** -- No single holding institution accounts for >=40% of any source's/state's attributed holdings. Measured: {"institution": "French Institute of Pondicherry", "n": 19447, "pct": 100.0}. Band: ceiling 40% (NAMAMI states and clean comparators alike).
- **r3-b1-11** -- No single holding institution accounts for >=40% of any complete NAMAMI state's attributed holdings. Measured: {"institution": null, "n": 19447, "pct": 100.0}. Band: ceiling 40%.
- **r3-b1-12** -- Top-3 holding institutions never jointly account for >=75% of a complete state's attributed holdings. Measured: {"top3_cum_pct": 100.0}. Band: ceiling 75%.
- **r3-b1-13** -- [CONDITIONAL] Top-12-institution HHI-lite index never exceeds 1,500 (0-10,000 scale) for any complete state. Measured: {"hhi12": 10000.0}. Band: ceiling 1500.
- **r3-b1-14** -- Top1/top2 institution ratio never exceeds 20 in any complete state. Measured: {"top1_top2_ratio": null}. Band: ceiling 20.
- **r3-b1-15** -- Every complete state has >=50 distinct holding institutions. Measured: {"distinct_institutes": 1}. Band: floor 50.
- **r3-b1-17** -- [CONDITIONAL] Full-distribution log(rank)-log(count) OLS slope is in [-3.0,-0.3] in every complete state (heavy-tailed shape, independent of concentration LEVEL). Measured: {"npoints": 1, "slope": null, "se": null, "r2": null}. Band: [-3.0, -0.3].
- **r3-b1-29** -- brahmic_southern script_group share is bimodal: >75% in the Dravidian belt (Karnataka/Kerala/Tamil Nadu), <15% elsewhere. Measured: {"n": 6362, "total": 19447, "pct": 32.71455751529799}. Band: >75% in belt AND <15% outside belt.
- **r3-b1-30** -- dravidian language_group share is bimodal: >20% in the Dravidian belt, <5% elsewhere. Measured: {"n": 2607, "total": 19447, "pct": 13.40566668380727}. Band: >20% in belt AND <5% outside belt.
- **r3-b1-37** -- Every complete state's records span between 30 and 160 distinct raw.language_raw values. Measured: {"distinct_language_count": 22}. Band: [30, 160].

**REQUIRES-RE-DERIVATION detail** (registration §4: near-threshold verdicts require independent re-derivation by a second lane before adjudication):

- **r3-b1-10** -- relative distance -0.08695652173913043 of the band edge. Band: ceiling 92%.
- **r3-b1-20** -- relative distance 0.0 of the band edge. Band: floor 6.

**Skipped:**

- r3-b1-03: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-04: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-05: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-06: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-07: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-09: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-18: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-28: already holdout-killed (registration §7 Validation event 2 -- Assam (2026-08-05)); registration §7 events 1-2

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This entry is a MACHINE-GENERATED DRAFT produced by `run_popper_validation`. It has not been reviewed and has NOT been appended to the registration file. An orchestrator must read it, apply the V1 §VII graveyard-furniture discipline to any KILL-CANDIDATE, and countersign (or amend) before any of this becomes part of the append-only registration §7 record.
