{ "record_id": "CW-2008-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0830", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Coimbatore Man and Anr. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Coimbatore Man and Anr. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Coimbatore", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Coimbatore", "police_station_or_unit": "All Women Police Station, Coimbatore", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Coimbatore Man and Anr. vs State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. No. 716 of 2007", "citation": "(2008) 4 MLJ 753", "judges": [ "A.P. Shah", "Prabha Sridevan" ], "judgment_date": "2008-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "2006-12-14", "incident_year": 2006, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable (R5)", "unit": "All Women Police Station, Coimbatore", "role": "held_liable", "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 Constable (R5), All Women Police Station, Coimbatore" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable (R6)", "unit": "All Women Police Station / B-3 Police Station, Coimbatore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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 Constable (R6), All Women Police Station / B-3 Police Station, Coimbatore" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable (R7)", "unit": "Coimbatore City police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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 Constable (R7), Coimbatore City police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Coimbatore man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/72310/coimbatore-bar-association-appellant-hash-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others-respondent-1/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/291152/", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56090308e4b014971115a990" ], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court (A.P. Shah, C.J. and Prabha Sridevan, J.) allowed the Coimbatore Bar Association's petition for a disabled practising advocate (post-brain-surgery, low vision) who was kicked and beaten on 14 December 2006 by woman Constable and striking-force constables at the town bus stand and again at the All Women Police Station, with a false modesty-outrage case foisted on him. Accepting retired Justice K.P. Sivasubramaniam's Commissioner report, the court held respondents 5 to 7 had beaten the advocate mercilessly and violated his human rights with impunity. It awarded Rs.50,000 compensation to the second petitioner, recoverable by the State from respondents 5 to 7. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court (A.P. Shah, C.J. and Prabha Sridevan, J.) allowed the Coimbatore Bar Association's petition for a disabled practising advocate (post-brain-surgery, low vision) who was kicked and beaten on 14 December 2006 by woman Constable and striking-force constables at the town bus stand and again at the All Women Police Station, with a false modesty-outrage case foisted on him. Accepting retired Justice K.P. Sivasubramaniam's Commissioner report, the court held respondents 5 to 7 had beaten the advocate mercilessly and violated his human rights with impunity. It awarded Rs.50,000 compensation to the second petitioner, recoverable by the State from respondents 5 to 7.", "court_quote": "Though the incident was triggered off by the second Petitioner dashing against the fifth Respondent due to his low vision, there is no justification for the behaviour of the police personnel in having beaten him mercilessly, especially Respondents 5, 6 and 7.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; R5-R7 beat disabled advocate mercilessly; Rs.50,000 recoverable from them.", "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": "2008-04-29", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2008) 4 MLJ 753", "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/72310/coimbatore-bar-association-appellant-hash-state-of-tamil-nadu-and-others-respondent-1/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/291152/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56090308e4b014971115a990", "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-65" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-38-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }