{ "record_id": "CW-2000-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0517", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Thanjavur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Thanjavur", "police_station_or_unit": "South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur (Cr. No. 716/1990)", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "2000 Cri LJ 4459", "judges": [ "Y. Venkatachalam" ], "judgment_date": "2000-03-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1990-11-22", "incident_year": 1990, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Prohibition raid party, South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.73, "jev_p_culpable": 0.29, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Prohibition raid party, South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Thanjavur woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1897316/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Madras High Court held the State liable for the death of a Thanjavur woman at Burmah Colony, Thanjavur, during a prohibition raid on 22 November 1990, when Police Constable 902 [name withheld], while dragging men into a police van and beating people at sight, rudely pushed her to the ground as she intervened for her relative the defence that she died of pre-existing heart disease, the Court held causation was for a criminal trial. Allowing the writ in part, the Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed forthwith criminal prosecution plus an expedited departmental enquiry against the constable. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court held the State liable for the death of a Thanjavur woman at Burmah Colony, Thanjavur, during a prohibition raid on 22 November 1990, when Police Constable 902 [name withheld], while dragging men into a police van and beating people at sight, rudely pushed her to the ground as she intervened for her relative the defence that she died of pre-existing heart disease, the Court held causation was for a criminal trial. Allowing the writ in part, the Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed forthwith criminal prosecution plus an expedited departmental enquiry against the constable.", "court_quote": "Consequently the respondents herein are directed to initiate forthwith criminal proceedings against the police constable concerned for his rude behaviour in his pushing her to ground which subsequently ended in her death apart from expediting the departmental enquiry pending against him.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 2L for raid death by constable push; criminal prosecution and DE directed.", "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": "Other", "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": "2000-03-22", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2000 Cri LJ 4459", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1897316/", "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-32" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }