# Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 22 March 2000, the Madras High Court (Coram: Y. Venkatachalam, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police Constable, Prohibition raid party, South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: TN 49 CW 0002
- Case reference: 2000 Cri LJ 4459
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: Y. Venkatachalam, J.), 22 March 2000
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable, Prohibition raid party, South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Consequently the respondents herein are directed to initiate forthwith criminal proceedings against the police constable concerned for his rude behaviour in his pushing her to ground which subsequently ended in her death apart from expediting the departmental enquiry pending against …” (at para 11)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: imprisonment and fine. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1897316/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2000-0003)

**Record:** CW-2000-0003 (compiler id CWC-0517); case SWDISPRO-010
**Title:** Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: Y. Venkatachalam
**Case number / citation:** 2000 Cri LJ 4459
**Judgment:** 2000-03-22 (2000, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1990-11-22 (1990)
**Place:** Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu; city town: Thanjavur; police station or unit: South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur (Cr. No. 716/1990); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** disproportionate force
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable, Prohibition raid party, South Town Police Station area, Thanjavur (1 in record)
**Victims:** Thanjavur woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Madras High Court held the State liable for the death of a Thanjavur woman at Burmah Colony, Thanjavur, during a prohibition raid on 22 November 1990, when Police Constable 902 \[name withheld\], while dragging men into a police van and beating people at sight, rudely pushed her to the ground as she intervened for her relative the defence that she died of pre-existing heart disease, the Court held causation was for a criminal trial. Allowing the writ in part, the Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed forthwith criminal prosecution plus an expedited departmental enquiry against the constable. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Consequently the respondents herein are directed to initiate forthwith criminal proceedings against the police constable concerned for his rude behaviour in his pushing her to ground which subsequently ended in her death apart from expediting the departmental enquiry pending against him.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1897316/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** disproportionate_force
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 11
**display title redacted:** Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '2000-03-22', '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 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2000 Cri LJ 4459', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1897316/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** disproportionate force
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Rs 2L for raid death by constable push; criminal prosecution and DE directed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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