A Division Bench of the Madras High Court ordered the Government of Tamil Nadu to pay Rs 2,00,000 as compensation for the custodial death of a Sankarankoil man inside the lockup of Sankarankoil Police Station on 16.09.1998. The deceased had been rounded up without arrest entries being recorded in the general diary, in direct breach of Article 22(1) of the Constitution and the Supreme Court's D.K. Basu guidelines. Justices P.K. Misra and K. Chandru held that the illegal arrest and total lack of care in preserving the detainee's life were sufficiently established to impose public law liability upon the State, irrespective of the RDO's preliminary finding of suicide by hanging. The Court directed disbursement of the compensation to the deceased's widow within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 14 March 2009 in W.P. No. 11569 of 1999, the Madras High Court (Coram: P.K. Misra, J., K. Chandru, J., JJ.) returned findings adverse to 6 police personnel, namely: Inspector of Police, Vasudevanallur Police Station; Sub-Inspector of Police, Sankarankoil Police Station; Head Constable, Sankarankoil Police Station; Police Constable Grade I, Sankarankoil Police Station; Police Constable Grade I, Sankarankoil Police Station; Assistant Station Writer, Grade I Constable, Sankarankoil Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
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“the illegal arrest of Late a Sankarankoil man and lack of care in saving his life while in police custody are sufficiently proved and those findings established here are enough to order compensation by the State” (para 24)
The Madras High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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