# Chennai Man, \[name withheld\] and \[name withheld\] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 April 2012 in W.P. No. 21806 of 2009, the Madras High Court (Coram: K. Chandru, J.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai; Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai; Grade-I Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3.8 lakh (Rs 3,80,000).

- Register number: TN 01 CW 0010
- Case reference: W.P. No. 21806 of 2009
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: K. Chandru, J.), 10 April 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai; Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai; Grade-I Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “This court clearly found that the petitioners were responsible for inflicting injuries against the deceased \[name withheld\].” (at para 7)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: fine. Compensation: Rs 3.8 lakh (Rs 3,80,000).
- 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/159929378/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0029)

**Record:** CW-2012-0029 (compiler id CWC-1289); case GAP3-86-003
**Title:** Chennai Man, \[name withheld\] and \[name withheld\] vs The Secretary to Government & Ors.
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: K. Chandru
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No. 21806 of 2009
**Judgment:** 2012-04-10 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-06-21 (1993)
**Place:** Chennai, Tamil Nadu; city town: Chennai; police station or unit: E-2 Royapettah Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art.21; Constitution Art.226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai; Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai; Grade-I Police Constable, E-2 Royapettah Police Station, Chennai (3 in record)
**Victims:** Chennai man, age 24 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** fine; Rs 3.8 lakh (Rs 3,80,000)
**Sentence type:** fine (fine)

The Madras High Court dismissed the writ petition of three police constables and upheld the recovery of Rs.76,000 from each toward the Rs.3,80,000 compensation the State paid to the mother of a Chennai man, aged 24, who was beaten to death in the custody of E-2 Royapettah police station in June 1993. The court held that the petitioners, who were heard as party-respondents in the compensation writ (W.P. No.14879 of 1994), had let the findings and the recovery direction become final without appeal. It held that neither their acquittal in the criminal trial, where witnesses turned hostile, nor the setting aside of departmental penalties debarred recovery, since public-law compensation serves a different purpose. The writ petition was dismissed and the recovery sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> This court clearly found that the petitioners were responsible for inflicting injuries against the deceased \[name withheld\].

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159929378/)
**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:** 7
**display title redacted:** Chennai Man, \[name withheld\] and \[name withheld\] vs The Secretary to Government & 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': '2012-04-10', '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 380,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P. No. 21806 of 2009', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159929378/', '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:** HC dismissed constables' writ; Rs.76,000 recovery each toward custodial-death compensation upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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