{ "record_id": "CW-2013-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0844", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Padalur Man vs Superintendent of Police and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Padalur Man vs Superintendent of Police and Others", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Perambalur", "district_at_time": "Tiruchirappalli", "city_town": "Padalur", "police_station_or_unit": "Padalur Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Padalur Man vs Superintendent of Police and Others", "case_number": "W.A. No.2578 of 2003", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Elipe Dharma Rao", "N. Kirubakaran" ], "judgment_date": "2013-06-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "1995-08-01", "incident_year": 1995, "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": [ "IPC 366", "CrPC 174" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Padalur Police Station, Perambalur District", "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": "Inspector of Police, Padalur Police Station, Perambalur District" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Padalur Police Station, Perambalur District", "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, Padalur Police Station, Perambalur District" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Perambalur District", "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, Perambalur District" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Driver", "unit": "Padalur Police Station, Perambalur District", "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 Driver, Padalur Police Station, Perambalur District" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Padalur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143341646/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Anjalam, widow of a Padalur man, alleged her husband was tortured and killed in August 1995 by Padalur police and the death staged as suicide by hanging from a neem tree (body found 04.08.1995; post-mortem placed death between 02-03.08.1995). The Division Bench set aside the Single Judge order, quashed the RDO/IG suicide findings, and found the police party headed by Inspector with P[name withheld] and [name withheld] and driver [name withheld] answerable for the murder. It directed the State to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation within six weeks, recoverable as Rs.2,00,000 from the Inspector and Rs.1,00,000 each from the other three, and transferred Cr. No.171/1995 (Kunnam P.S.) to the CBI for fresh investigation. The Court noted that no action had yet been initiated against the officers (para 20). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Anjalam, widow of a Padalur man, alleged her husband was tortured and killed in August 1995 by Padalur police and the death staged as suicide by hanging from a neem tree (body found 04.08.1995; post-mortem placed death between 02-03.08.1995). The Division Bench set aside the Single Judge order, quashed the RDO/IG suicide findings, and found the police party headed by Inspector with P[name withheld] and [name withheld] and driver [name withheld] answerable for the murder. It directed the State to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation within six weeks, recoverable as Rs.2,00,000 from the Inspector and Rs.1,00,000 each from the other three, and transferred Cr. No.171/1995 (Kunnam P.S.) to the CBI for fresh investigation. The Court noted that no action had yet been initiated against the officers (para 20).", "court_quote": "Since it is our finding that the police party headed by the third respondent and accompanied by the respondents 4 to 6 are answerable to the murder of the deceased, we direct the second respondent, Government of Tamil Nadu, to pay a sum of Rs.5,00,000/= (Rupees Five Lakhs Only) to the appellant as compensation within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment.", "court_quote_para": "28", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Police party held answerable for custodial murder staged as suicide; Rs.5L compensation with recovery from 4 officers; CBI probe.", "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": "2013-06-18", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.A. No.2578 of 2003", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143341646/", "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-67" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-39-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }