{ "record_id": "CW-2021-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0816", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "D. (minor) vs State of Kerala and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "D. (minor) vs State of Kerala and Ors.", "state": "Kerala", "district": "Thiruvananthapuram", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Attingal", "police_station_or_unit": "Pink Police, Attingal Police Station (Thiruvananthapuram Rural)", "court": "Kerala High Court", "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "D. (minor) vs State of Kerala and Ors.", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 25850 of 2021", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Devan Ramachandran J." ], "judgment_date": "2021-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "2021-08-27", "incident_year": 2021, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Pink Police, Attingal Police Station", "role": "named_only", "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, Pink Police, Attingal Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 8, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Attingal girl, age 8", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 8, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a 8-year-old girl" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/wpc258502021h-407081.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/kerala-high-court-orders-state-govt-pay-15-lakh-compensation-girl-falsely-accused-theft-female-police-officer", "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/pink-police-harassment-kerala-hc-grants-compensation-to-the-girl-calls-for-disciplinary-action-against-responsible-officer-188221" ], "summary": "The Kerala High Court (Devan Ramachandran, J.) held that Pink Police Constable illegal detention and public humiliation of 8-year-old a 8-year-old girl at Attingal on 27 August 2021, on the false allegation that the child possessed the officer own missing phone, violated the child fundamental right to live with dignity under Article 21. The Court rejected the State claim to protection under Section 113 of the Kerala Police Act, 2011, holding the officer acted in her own cause as judge, jury and executioner rather than in discharge of duty. It directed the State to pay Rs.1,50,000 compensation plus Rs.25,000 costs within one month under public-law strict liability, and directed the supervisory authority to consider disciplinary action while keeping the officer off public-facing duties with interpersonal-skills training meanwhile. The officer apology on record was declined by the family; the Court declined to order her removal, noting her financial hardship. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Kerala High Court (Devan Ramachandran, J.) held that Pink Police Constable illegal detention and public humiliation of 8-year-old Devipriya at Attingal on 27 August 2021, on the false allegation that the child possessed the officer own missing phone, violated the child fundamental right to live with dignity under Article 21. The Court rejected the State claim to protection under Section 113 of the Kerala Police Act, 2011, holding the officer acted in her own cause as judge, jury and executioner rather than in discharge of duty. It directed the State to pay Rs.1,50,000 compensation plus Rs.25,000 costs within one month under public-law strict liability, and directed the supervisory authority to consider disciplinary action while keeping the officer off public-facing duties with interpersonal-skills training meanwhile. The officer apology on record was declined by the family; the Court declined to order her removal, noting her financial hardship.", "court_quote": "This Court is in complete affirmation with the afore argument of Smt.A.K.Preetha and as I have already said above, I am firm in my mind that the petitioner is entitled to sufficient compensation for the purpose of remedying the violation of her fundamental right to live with dignity under our great Constitution, at the hands of the 4th respondent and which has been unfortunately tried to be trivialized and even justified by the official respondents through their pleadings in this case, even when the 4th respondent has no such case, while expressly admitting her 'indiscretion'.", "court_quote_para": "65", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Art 21 violation found; Rs.1,50,000 compensation plus Rs.25,000 costs; disciplinary consideration ordered.", "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": "2021-12-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Kerala High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Kerala High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "WP(C) No. 25850 of 2021", "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/wpc258502021h-407081.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/kerala-high-court-orders-state-govt-pay-15-lakh-compensation-girl-falsely-accused-theft-female-police-officer", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/pink-police-harassment-kerala-hc-grants-compensation-to-the-girl-calls-for-disciplinary-action-against-responsible-officer-188221", "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-63" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-32-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }