{ "record_id": "CW-2009-0035", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1286", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ambiligai Man vs Secretary to Government and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Ambiligai Man vs Secretary to Government and Another", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Dindigul", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ambiligai", "police_station_or_unit": "Ambiligai Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ambiligai Man vs Secretary to Government and Another", "case_number": "W.P. No.34155 of 2006", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Chandru" ], "judgment_date": "2009-12-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1992-01-08", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art.226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Ambiligai Police Station, Dindigul District", "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": "Head Constable, Ambiligai Police Station, Dindigul District" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ambiligai man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1636343/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Head Constable challenged the recovery of Rs.15,000 from his salary toward the Rs.1 lakh paid from the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to the family of an Ambiligai man, who died in the Ambiligai police lock-up in January 1992. The court found that the departmental enquiry had proved unlawful detention of over three days with use of excessive force causing death, for which he had already suffered a minor penalty that became final. The court held that making good the Government's loss was an automatic consequence and that his conduct clearly conflicted with D.K. Basu. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable challenged the recovery of Rs.15,000 from his salary toward the Rs.1 lakh paid from the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to the family of an Ambiligai man, who died in the Ambiligai police lock-up in January 1992. The court found that the departmental enquiry had proved unlawful detention of over three days with use of excessive force causing death, for which he had already suffered a minor penalty that became final. The court held that making good the Government's loss was an automatic consequence and that his conduct clearly conflicted with D.K. Basu. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs.", "court_quote": "The conduct exhibited by the petitioner, namely, detaining a person unlawfully in the lock up for more than three days and where the detenu also subsequently died cannot be condoned.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed Head Constable's writ; upheld Rs.15,000 recovery toward Rs.1 lakh relief for 1992 lock-up death.", "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": "2009-12-21", "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": "W.P. No.34155 of 2006", "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/1636343/", "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-122" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-85-015", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }