{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0359", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chennai Man vs The State of Tamil Nadu", "display_title_redacted": "Chennai Man vs The State of Tamil Nadu", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Chennai", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chennai", "police_station_or_unit": "K-7 ICF Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chennai Man vs The State of Tamil Nadu", "case_number": "W.P. No. 10249/2020", "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (Mad) 331", "judges": [ "G.K. Ilanthiraiyan" ], "judgment_date": "2022-07-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2012-01-11", "incident_year": 2012, "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 302", "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 342", "IPC 343", "IPC 348", "IPC 324", "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police (Crime)", "unit": "K-7 ICF Police Station, Chennai", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.19, "jev_p_culpable": 0.78, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police (Crime), K-7 ICF Police Station, Chennai" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 22, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chennai man, age 22" } ], "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/64472349/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/madras-high-court-custodial-death-murder-charge-against-erring-officials-five-lakh-interim-compensation-to-family-205624" ], "summary": "The Madras High Court allowed the Article 226 writ plea of S. Pongulali over the custodial death of her 22-year-old son [name withheld], picked up by K-7 ICF police on 11 January 2012 and dead on 16 January 2012 after being shuttled between the prison hospital and Royapettah Government Hospital without proper treatment. Holding it a clear case of murder by the accused police personnel, the Court directed the CB-CID to alter Crime No. 2 of 2017 to Section 302 IPC against Inspector and the other accused officers and file a final report within eight weeks. It directed the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 5 lakh interim compensation to the dependents (mother, young wife and 8-year-old child) within four weeks, recoverable from the accused persons in the manner known to law. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court allowed the Article 226 writ plea of S. Pongulali over the custodial death of her 22-year-old son [name withheld], picked up by K-7 ICF police on 11 January 2012 and dead on 16 January 2012 after being shuttled between the prison hospital and Royapettah Government Hospital without proper treatment. Holding it a clear case of murder by the accused police personnel, the Court directed the CB-CID to alter Crime No. 2 of 2017 to Section 302 IPC against Inspector and the other accused officers and file a final report within eight weeks. It directed the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 5 lakh interim compensation to the dependents (mother, young wife and 8-year-old child) within four weeks, recoverable from the accused persons in the manner known to law.", "court_quote": "Therefore, it is clear case of murder and all the accused persons shall be punished for the offence under Section 302 of IPC.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madras High Court held the custodial death of a Chennai man a clear case of murder, directed CB-CID to alter the case to s.302 IPC against Inspector and other K-7 ICF personnel, and awarded Rs 5 lakh interim compensation recoverable from the accused.", "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": "2022-07-18", "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": "2022 LiveLaw (Mad) 331", "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/64472349/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/madras-high-court-custodial-death-murder-charge-against-erring-officials-five-lakh-interim-compensation-to-family-205624", "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-11", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }