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 "display_title": "Puzhal Man and [name withheld] vs TN State Human Rights Commission",
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 "district": "Chennai",
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 "case_title": "Puzhal Man and [name withheld] vs TN State Human Rights Commission",
 "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 4569/2023 & 17866/2024",
 "citation": "2025 SCC OnLine Mad 3002",
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 "judgment_date": "2025-06-12",
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 "incident_date": "2013-12-20",
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 "category": "Custodial torture",
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 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/babu-rajendra-bose-v-tnshrc-606445.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/madras-high-court-police-brutality-compensation-human-dignity-295731",
  "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madras-high-court-upholds-shrc-order-to-recover-rs-1-lakh-from-cops-for-custodial-torture-1499924",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/06/27/mad-hc-compensation-for-custodial-torture-victim/",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/madras-high-court/d-babu-rajendra-bose-v-the-tamil-nadu-state-human-rights-commissioner-human-rights-police-torture-1582509",
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the certiorari writ petitions of Inspector and Sub-Inspector of M3 Puzhal Police Station, upholding the Tamil Nadu SHRC order dated 13 November 2018 in SHRC No. 9744 of 2013 and the consequential GO(D) No. 987 of 2022. The SHRC had found that the officers, after falsely implicating complainant [name withheld] in Crime No. 2046 of 2013, picked him up around 3 AM on 20 December 2013, kept him in the lock-up till 22 December, stripped and beat him, coerced gold jewellery worth lakhs, and assaulted him again near the Kathirvedu bridge while taking him to jail. The Court held the SHRC recommendation binding and enforceable under Section 18 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, sustained the Rs 1 lakh compensation to the complainant with recovery from the two officers, and held police officials must respect human dignity and human-rights standing orders. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the certiorari writ petitions of Inspector and Sub-Inspector of M3 Puzhal Police Station, upholding the Tamil Nadu SHRC order dated 13 November 2018 in SHRC No. 9744 of 2013 and the consequential GO(D) No. 987 of 2022. The SHRC had found that the officers, after falsely implicating complainant [name withheld] in Crime No. 2046 of 2013, picked him up around 3 AM on 20 December 2013, kept him in the lock-up till 22 December, stripped and beat him, coerced gold jewellery worth lakhs, and assaulted him again near the Kathirvedu bridge while taking him to jail. The Court held the SHRC recommendation binding and enforceable under Section 18 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, sustained the Rs 1 lakh compensation to the complainant with recovery from the two officers, and held police officials must respect human dignity and human-rights standing orders.",
 "court_quote": "The State Human Rights Commission after conducting enquiry comes to a conclusion that it is seen from the oral and documentary evidence of the parties, complainant/4th respondent/Mr.a Puzhal man was tortured and arrested by the police. Though there is no serious injury to Mr.a Puzhal man, the torture made out him is a mental torture and the same also amounts to violation of Human Rights.",
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 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras High Court Division Bench dismissed officers writs and upheld SHRC Rs 1 lakh compensation to a Puzhal man for custodial torture at M3 Puzhal PS, recoverable from Inspector and SI.",
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   "description": "The Madras High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
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