# Avadi Woman vs The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 27 April 2010 in W.P. No.14781 of 2004, the Madras High Court (Coram: K. Chandru, J.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Subedar Major (Inspector of Police), GC, CRPF, Avadi, Chennai; Inspector of Police, Muthapudhupet, Incharge F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi; Head Constable, Muthapudhupet, F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: TN 12 CW 0002
- Case reference: W.P. No.14781 of 2004
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: K. Chandru, J.), 27 April 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time: Subedar Major (Inspector of Police), GC, CRPF, Avadi, Chennai; Inspector of Police, Muthapudhupet, Incharge F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi; Head Constable, Muthapudhupet, F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “That there was a complaint from neighbours was not borne out by records and the assault and outraging the modesty of the petitioner and public humiliation heaped on her is not denied by any counter affidavit either by the State …” (at para 33)
- 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/1841762/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2010-0028)

**Record:** CW-2010-0028 (compiler id CWC-1279); case GAP3-85-008
**Title:** Avadi Woman vs The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu and Others
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: K. Chandru
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No.14781 of 2004
**Judgment:** 2010-04-27 (2010, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2004-01-23 (2004)
**Place:** Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu; city town: Avadi; police station or unit: F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi; GC, CRPF, Avadi; force: central_armed
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226; Constitution Art. 21; CrPC s.160
**Officers (gated display forms):** Subedar Major (Inspector of Police), GC, CRPF, Avadi, Chennai; Inspector of Police, Muthapudhupet, Incharge F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi; Head Constable, Muthapudhupet, F2 Tank Factory Police Station, Avadi (3 in record)
**Victims:** Avadi woman; Avadi man (2 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. On the night of 23.1.2004, local police led by Inspector with CRPF men led by Subedar raided the quarters of widower an Avadi man during a birthday dinner, abused and assaulted him, and dragged petitioner \[name withheld\], a postgraduate teacher, by her hair into a jeep, outraging her modesty. Both families with children were kept at F2 Tank Factory Police Station till 2 a.m. and freed without enquiry, and the incident was widely published, causing the petitioner public disgrace. The Court held the CrPC does not permit taking a woman to a police station at midnight for questioning and that moral policing and snooping into private affairs are unlawful. It directed CRPF respondents 2 and 3 to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> That there was a complaint from neighbours was not borne out by records and the assault and outraging the modesty of the petitioner and public humiliation heaped on her is not denied by any counter affidavit either by the State Police and in the counter affidavit by the other respondents.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1841762/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', '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:** 33
**display title redacted:** Avadi Woman vs The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu and Others
**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': '2010-04-27', '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': 'W.P. No.14781 of 2004', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1841762/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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 held midnight raid, assault, modesty outrage and illegal detention proved; Rs.5 lakh compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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