{ "record_id": "CW-2016-0035", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0850", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Poothalur Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Poothalur Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Thanjavur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Poothalur", "police_station_or_unit": "Poothalur Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": "Madurai", "case_title": "Poothalur Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(MD) No.9606 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M.V. Muralidaran" ], "judgment_date": "2016-12-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2008-04-01", "incident_year": 2008, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 226", "Constitution Art 21", "CrPC 357-A" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Highway Patrol, Thanjavur 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": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Highway Patrol, Thanjavur District" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "role": "named_only", "unit": "PCR Wing, Nagapattinam 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": "Sub-Inspector of Police, PCR Wing, Nagapattinam District" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Thirukkattupalli Police Station, Thanjavur 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, Thirukkattupalli Police Station, Thanjavur District" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Poothalur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82698772/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Bhanumathi petitioned under Article 226 for her son [name withheld], who sustained a head injury needing eight stitches around 20-21 April 2008 and was then booked in a theft case (Crime No.80/2008, Poothalur P.S.) while his own assault complaint (Crime No.81/2008) was closed without proper investigation. The court found his injuries undisputed (admitted in R4's counter and medical records, para 7), held it had reason to believe respondents 4-11 were involved in the assault, and faulted SI for pursuing only the theft case while purposely omitting all evidence-gathering in Crime No.81/2008 (para 15). Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu, Rini Johar and T. Sekaran, the court allowed the writ and directed the State to pay Selvaraj Rs.3,00,000 with 6% p.a. interest from 19.07.2010 within six weeks. It held the State vicariously liable for the Article 21 violation and noted the victim could also claim under the s.357-A CrPC Victim Compensation Scheme. Respondents 1-3 and R4 denied the allegations and questioned maintainability (para 8). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Bhanumathi petitioned under Article 226 for her son [name withheld], who sustained a head injury needing eight stitches around 20-21 April 2008 and was then booked in a theft case (Crime No.80/2008, Poothalur P.S.) while his own assault complaint (Crime No.81/2008) was closed without proper investigation. The court found his injuries undisputed (admitted in R4's counter and medical records, para 7), held it had reason to believe respondents 4-11 were involved in the assault, and faulted SI for pursuing only the theft case while purposely omitting all evidence-gathering in Crime No.81/2008 (para 15). Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu, Rini Johar and T. Sekaran, the court allowed the writ and directed the State to pay Selvaraj Rs.3,00,000 with 6% p.a. interest from 19.07.2010 within six weeks. It held the State vicariously liable for the Article 21 violation and noted the victim could also claim under the s.357-A CrPC Victim Compensation Scheme. Respondents 1-3 and R4 denied the allegations and questioned maintainability (para 8).", "court_quote": "The offenders who assaulted the petitioner's son were not prosecuted by the State since the State did not investigate the case properly in Crime Number: 81 of 2008 on the file of the Poothalur Police Station.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Compensation Rs.3L with 6% interest ordered; court found police assault involvement and investigative failure.", "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": "2016-12-16", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(MD) No.9606 of 2010", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82698772/", "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": "GAP2-39-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }