{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0840", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "[name withheld] vs The National Human Rights Commission and Others", "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] vs The National Human Rights Commission and Others", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Kanchipuram", "district_at_time": "Kancheepuram", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "[name withheld] vs The National Human Rights Commission and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No.3799 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjay Kishan Kaul", "Pushpa Sathyanarayana" ], "judgment_date": "2015-11-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Kancheepuram District Police", "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 personnel, Kancheepuram District Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/164704509/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Police officer challenged G.O.Ms. Nos.113, 220 and 436 of 2011 and the SP Kancheepuram memo dated 17.06.2011 directing recovery from him following NHRC proceedings over a custodial death. The Division Bench recorded that Rs.50,000 each had already been recovered from five other personnel and that the RDO Madurantakam had filed a criminal case against the police personnel (C.M.P. No.3809/2015, JM Madurantakam) which was pending trial. The court held the authorities entitled to recover the amount from the petitioner since the NHRC order was never challenged, observing refund could be considered only on acquittal. The writ petition was dismissed; the order does not name the deceased, the other personnel, or the petitioner's rank. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police officer challenged G.O.Ms. Nos.113, 220 and 436 of 2011 and the SP Kancheepuram memo dated 17.06.2011 directing recovery from him following NHRC proceedings over a custodial death. The Division Bench recorded that Rs.50,000 each had already been recovered from five other personnel and that the RDO Madurantakam had filed a criminal case against the police personnel (C.M.P. No.3809/2015, JM Madurantakam) which was pending trial. The court held the authorities entitled to recover the amount from the petitioner since the NHRC order was never challenged, observing refund could be considered only on acquittal. The writ petition was dismissed; the order does not name the deceased, the other personnel, or the petitioner's rank.", "court_quote": "In so far as recovery process is concerned, the aforesaid fact would show that the respondent authorities are entitled to recover the amount, as no challenge has been laid to the order passed by the National Human Rights Commission.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; recovery of NHRC-linked custodial-death compensation from the officer upheld.", "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": "2015-11-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madras High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madras High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No.3799 of 2012", "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/164704509/", "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": "GAP2-39-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }