CW-2009-0029KeralaJudgment 5 October 2009

State of Kerala vs National Human Rights Commissioner

The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Replace 'physical and mental torture of a boy, a minor boy, in unlawful police custody' with 'physical and mental torture of a minor boy in unlawful police custody'; drop 'to the victim' name forms elsewhere. No other summary change needed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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Report card

By judgment dated 5 October 2009 in O.P. No. 30749 of 2001, the Kerala High Court (Coram: S. Siri Jagan J., J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

Register number
KL 00 CW 0004
Case reference
O.P. No. 30749 of 2001
Court and date
Kerala High Court (Coram: S. Siri Jagan J., J.), 5 October 2009
Officer(s) at the material time
Not identified in the cited sources
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 18(3) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
Finding of the Court (extract)
“This is a case where a small boy has been brutally manhandled by the police officials on allegations of theft.” (at para 3 (quote sits inside para 3 after the Section 18(3) extract))
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.

The Kerala High Court judgment dated 5 October 2009 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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Custodial torturePrimary
Material fact supported

Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.

Official finding: supports allegation.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“This is a case where a small boy has been brutally manhandled by the police officials on allegations of theft.” (para 3 (quote sits inside para 3 after the Section 18(3) extract))

Institutional response

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5 Oct 2009

Order issued

Concluded
Kerala High Court External · Binding

The Kerala High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.

Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: O.P. No. 30749 of 2001
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))

Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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