# Tiruvannamalai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 February 2008 in W.A. No. 1018/2006 (against W.P. No. 22366/1993), the Madras High Court (Coram: Elipe Dharma Rao, S.R. Singharavelu, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: TN 97 CW 0001
- Case reference: W.A. No. 1018/2006 (against W.P. No. 22366/1993) / (2008) 3 MLJ 167
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: Elipe Dharma Rao, S.R. Singharavelu, JJ.), 5 February 2008
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “from the said G.O. it is clear that the husband of the petitioner died due to the torture by the police personnel of Veraiyur Police Station and the said conclusion of the Government is sufficient for awarding compensation.” (at para 5)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- 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/1962211/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2008-0002)

**Record:** CW-2008-0002 (compiler id CWC-0357); case TAMILN-004
**Title:** Tiruvannamalai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: Elipe Dharma Rao; S.R. Singharavelu
**Case number / citation:** W.A. No. 1018/2006 (against W.P. No. 22366/1993) / (2008) 3 MLJ 167
**Judgment:** 2008-02-05 (2008, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-09-11 (1993)
**Place:** Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu (district at time: Tiruvannamalai-Sambuvarayar); city town: Tiruvannamalai; police station or unit: Tiruvannamalai Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel (1 in record)
**Victims:** Tiruvannamalai man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court allowed the writ appeal of Rajammal, widow of pawn broker a Tiruvannamalai man, who was picked up by a Tiruvannamalai police party on 11 September 1993, died the same day from police excesses, and whose body was dumped in the Thachambattu Reserve Forest. Treating the custodial death as established and noting the State had sanctioned criminal prosecution of the officers (C.C. No. 1514 of 2000 before the Judicial Magistrate, Tiruvannamalai), the Court held compensation against the State the appropriate remedy for the established infringement of Article 21. Having regard to the widow large family of six children and financial distress, it enhanced the single judge award from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh as prayed for, relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Shyamsunder Trivedi on custodial violence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> from the said G.O. it is clear that the husband of the petitioner died due to the torture by the police personnel of Veraiyur Police Station and the said conclusion of the Government is sufficient for awarding compensation.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1962211/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 5
**display title redacted:** Tiruvannamalai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu
**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': \['officers'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2008-02-05', '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': '(2008) 3 MLJ 167', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1962211/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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:** Madras High Court Division Bench allowed writ appeal and enhanced compensation from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh for the custodial death of a Tiruvannamalai man at Tiruvannamalai.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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