{ "record_id": "CW-2023-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0371", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kannan vs The [name withheld], Paramakudi Town", "display_title_redacted": "Kannan vs The [name withheld], Paramakudi Town", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Ramanathapuram", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Paramakudi", "police_station_or_unit": "Nainarkovil Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": "Madurai", "case_title": "Kannan vs The [name withheld], Paramakudi Town", "case_number": "Crl.R.C.(MD) No. 416 of 2018", "citation": null, "judges": [ "G.K. Ilanthiraiyan, J." ], "judgment_date": "2023-04-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2005-12-20", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 330" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Kannan", "rank": "Police Officer", "unit": "Nainarkovil Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Kannan", "display": "Kannan (Police Officer)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Paramakudi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/109209221/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed a criminal revision case filed by police officer Kannan and affirmed his conviction under Section 330 IPC for inflicting custodial torture to extort a confession. In December 2005, the victim was brought to Nainarkovil Police Station on suspicion of jewel theft, where the petitioner tied his hands and legs, beat him with a lathi, and kicked him with boots, causing injuries that required hospitalisation at Paramakudi Government Hospital and Madurai Rajaji Hospital. Rejecting the officer's plea that sanction under Section 197 CrPC was required, Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan held that custodial violence forms no part of official duty and was conclusively established by the medical evidence and the RDO enquiry. The Court affirmed the modified sentence of six months simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000, of which Rs 10,000 was awarded to the victim as compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed a criminal revision case filed by police officer Kannan and affirmed his conviction under Section 330 IPC for inflicting custodial torture to extort a confession. In December 2005, the victim was brought to Nainarkovil Police Station on suspicion of jewel theft, where the petitioner tied his hands and legs, beat him with a lathi, and kicked him with boots, causing injuries that required hospitalisation at Paramakudi Government Hospital and Madurai Rajaji Hospital. Rejecting the officer's plea that sanction under Section 197 CrPC was required, Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan held that custodial violence forms no part of official duty and was conclusively established by the medical evidence and the RDO enquiry. The Court affirmed the modified sentence of six months simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000, of which Rs 10,000 was awarded to the victim as compensation.", "court_quote": "the prosecution proved that P.W.1 was assaulted by the petitioner in the Police Station, that too without committing any offence.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court confirmed conviction of police officer under IPC 330 for custodial torture to extort confession in false theft case.", "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 torture", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.R.C.(MD) No. 416 of 2018", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2023-04-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madras High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.R.C.(MD) No. 416 of 2018", "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": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/109209221/", "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-12" ], "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-007", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }