# Tiruchirappalli Man v. State of Tamil Nadu \\& Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 23 April 2010 in W.P. No. 17837 of 2008, the Madras High Court (Coram: K. Chandru, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Deputy Superintendent of Police (Vigilance), Vigilance; Inspector of Police, Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: TN 45 CW 0004
- Case reference: W.P. No. 17837 of 2008 / MANU/TN/0425/2010
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: K. Chandru, J.), 23 April 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time: Deputy Superintendent of Police (Vigilance), Vigilance; Inspector of Police, Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “This Court is of the view that the petitioner has made out a strong case regarding the illegal arrest of her husband and the subsequent torture in the police lock-up before the admission to Central Prison. Moreover, the petitioner's husband …” (at para 16)
- 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://www.legalindia.com/judgments/prabavathy-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-april-2010); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2010-0027)

**Record:** CW-2010-0027 (compiler id CWC-0835); case GAP2-38-004
**Title:** Tiruchirappalli Man v. State of Tamil Nadu \\& Ors.
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: K. Chandru
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No. 17837 of 2008 / MANU/TN/0425/2010
**Judgment:** 2010-04-23 (2010, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2008-01-04 (2008)
**Place:** Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu; city town: Tiruchirappalli; police station or unit: Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Deputy Superintendent of Police (Vigilance), Vigilance; Inspector of Police, Edamalaipattiputhur Police Station (2 in record)
**Victims:** Tiruchirappalli man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Tiruchirappalli man, a retired Fire Officer, was picked up on 4 January 2008 and illegally detained at Edamalaipattiputhur police station, where he was beaten with lathis with his hands tied by a group led by DSP (Vigilance) \[name withheld\]. An FIR was registered only on 6 January 2008 before remand; the jail doctor recorded contusions on both hands at admission. He was hospitalised on 12 January 2008 and died on 22 January 2008. The court held the illegal arrest without D.K. Basu compliance and the lock-up torture proved by the jail admission record, accident register and hospital history sheet, and directed the State to pay Rs.5 lakhs within eight weeks, declining recovery from officers since the Government had dropped further action on the RDO report. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> This Court is of the view that the petitioner has made out a strong case regarding the illegal arrest of her husband and the subsequent torture in the police lock-up before the admission to Central Prison. Moreover, the petitioner's husband was arrested without following the guidelines laid down in D.K.Basu case.

**Sources (2):** [legalindia.com](https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/prabavathy-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-april-2010); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/287052/)
**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:** 16
**display title redacted:** Tiruchirappalli Man v. State of Tamil Nadu \\& Ors.
**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': '2010-04-23', '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': 'MANU/TN/0425/2010', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/prabavathy-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-april-2010', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/287052/', '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 HC (K. Chandru, J.) allowed W.P. 17837/2008: illegal arrest/detention and lock-up torture proved; Rs.5L compensation ordered.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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