# P. Rajakumari vs The Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 24 September 2014 in W.P. No.23320 of 2014, the Madras High Court (Coram: V. Ramasubramanian, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: TN 39 CW 0001
- Case reference: W.P. No.23320 of 2014
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: V. Ramasubramanian, J.), 24 September 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Udumalpet 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): “It may also be necessary to award interim compensation to the petitioner's mother, in view of the fact (1) that injuries on her person are now established (2) that even as per the recording made by the Medical Officer of …” (at para 46)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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/126779330/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2014-0030)

**Record:** CW-2014-0030 (compiler id CWC-1287); case GAP3-86-001
**Title:** P. Rajakumari vs The Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) and Others
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: V. Ramasubramanian
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No.23320 of 2014
**Judgment:** 2014-09-24 (2014, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-08-01 (2014)
**Place:** Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu; city town: Udumalpet; police station or unit: Udumalpet Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art.226
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Udumalpet woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. P. Rajakumari sought a judicial-magistrate inquiry and independent investigation into the alleged custodial rape and torture of her mother \[name withheld, survivor\] at Udumalpet police station in August 2014. The court held there was enough material to warrant registration of an FIR without any prior magisterial/RDO fact-finding (para 36), noting a three-week-old fracture of the distal phalanx found only on the court-ordered referral, coinciding with the admitted period of police custody (para 46). The court directed the CBI Joint Director to record the victim statement, register an FIR against the officers she identifies, entrust investigation to an officer not below Deputy Commissioner of Police rank, and file a report within three months (para 50, dirs 1-3). It ordered Rs.2 lakh interim compensation within two weeks, recoverable from those responsible upon conviction (para 50, dir 5). The State, through the Additional Advocate General, opposed entrusting investigation to any outside agency and sought a PSO-151 or superior-police-officer enquiry instead (paras 38-39). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It may also be necessary to award interim compensation to the petitioner's mother, in view of the fact (1) that injuries on her person are now established (2) that even as per the recording made by the Medical Officer of the Central Prison at Coimbatore, the injuries are allegedly inflicted on her while she was in police custody and (3) that but for the referral made by this Court to the Multi Super Speciality Hospital, even the fracture in her hand could never have been found out.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/126779330/)
**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:** 46
**display title redacted:** P. Rajakumari vs The Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) 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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2014-09-24', '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 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P. No.23320 of 2014', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/126779330/', '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 ordered CBI FIR plus Rs.2 lakh interim compensation; custodial torture medically corroborated, rape allegation sent to CBI probe.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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