# State of Kerala vs National Human Rights Commissioner

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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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1492042/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2009-0029)

**Record:** CW-2009-0029 (compiler id CWC-0813); case GAP2-30-002
**Title:** State of Kerala vs National Human Rights Commissioner
**Court:** Kerala High Court; judges: S. Siri Jagan J.
**Case number / citation:** O.P. No. 30749 of 2001
**Judgment:** 2009-10-05 (2009, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Kerala; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 s.18(3)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Kerala man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> This is a case where a small boy has been brutally manhandled by the police officials on allegations of theft.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1492042/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_torture
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial torture', '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:** 3 (quote sits inside para 3 after the Section 18(3) extract)
**display title redacted:** State of Kerala vs National Human Rights Commissioner
**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': \['court_quote_para', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2009-10-05', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Kerala High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Kerala High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'O.P. No. 30749 of 2001', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1492042/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial torture
**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:** HC dismissed State challenge; NHRC prosecution and Rs.3 lakh interim-relief directions sustained with own torture finding.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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