# Keeriparai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 December 2015 in Writ Appeal (MD) No.1311 of 2011, the Madras High Court (Coram: V. Ramasubramanian, N. Kirubakaran, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 9 police personnel, namely: Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Crime Branch, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District; Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nagercoil Town, Kanyakumari District; Inspector of Police, Vadaseri Police Station, Nagercoil; Inspector of Police, Kadayanallur Police Station, Tirunelveli District; Head Constable (No.1691), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1726), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1726), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1568), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.542), Aralvoimozhi Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 7.9 lakh (Rs 7,86,000).

- Register number: TN 74 CW 0005
- Case reference: Writ Appeal (MD) No.1311 of 2011
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: V. Ramasubramanian, N. Kirubakaran, JJ.), 10 December 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time: Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Crime Branch, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District; Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nagercoil Town, Kanyakumari District; Inspector of Police, Vadaseri Police Station, Nagercoil; Inspector of Police, Kadayanallur Police Station, Tirunelveli District; Head Constable (No.1691), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1726), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1726), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1568), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.542), Aralvoimozhi Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “By a detailed order passed on 01.07.2011, after taking into consideration the entire materials on record and the case laws on the point, the learned Judge directed the State to pay compensation for the death of the 5th respondent's husband …” (at para 5)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 7.9 lakh (Rs 7,86,000).
- 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/84666221/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2015-0038)

**Record:** CW-2015-0038 (compiler id CWC-1290); case GAP3-87-001
**Title:** Keeriparai Man vs State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.
**Court:** Madras High Court; bench: Madurai; judges: V. Ramasubramanian; N. Kirubakaran
**Case number / citation:** Writ Appeal (MD) No.1311 of 2011
**Judgment:** 2015-12-10 (2015, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2005-11-28 (2005)
**Place:** Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu; city town: Keeriparai; police station or unit: Keeriparai Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302
**Officers (gated display forms):** Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Crime Branch, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District; Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nagercoil Town, Kanyakumari District; Inspector of Police, Vadaseri Police Station, Nagercoil; Inspector of Police, Kadayanallur Police Station, Tirunelveli District; Head Constable (No.1691), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1726), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1726), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.1568), Aralvoimozhi Police Station; Head Constable (No.542), Aralvoimozhi Police Station (9 in record)
**Victims:** Keeriparai man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 7.9 lakh (Rs 7,86,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court (Madurai) dismissed the writ appeal of \[name withheld\] \[name withheld\] against the single judge's order dated 01.07.2011 awarding Rs.7,86,000 compensation to Hasanammal for the custodial death of her husband \[name withheld\]. The single-judge order (W.P.(MD)No.8138 of 2008) records that Kadayanallur police took a Keeriparai man from his residence on 28.11.2005, handed him to Aralvoimozhi police, and kept him in illegal custody at Keeriparai police station from 28.11.2005 to 30.11.2005, where he was tortured by third-degree methods causing death on 30.11.2005 at 11 p.m., with the body disposed of - findings supported by the RDO enquiry, the Collector, G.O.Ms.No.1322 dated 27.11.2008 and the CBCID investigation. The police had originally claimed he was released and his whereabouts were unknown (appeal para 3). The Division Bench noted the State had paid the compensation without appeal (para 6) and that a CBCID charge sheet under Section 302 IPC was pending trial before the Sessions Court (para 4). It held the compensation findings could not clinch any officer's culpability and the trial would proceed on its own evidence (para 8), and dismissed the appeal (spellings: '\[name withheld\]' per the appeal cause title; '\[name withheld\]' in the single-judge cause title).

> By a detailed order passed on 01.07.2011, after taking into consideration the entire materials on record and the case laws on the point, the learned Judge directed the State to pay compensation for the death of the 5th respondent's husband in a sum of Rs.7,86,000/-.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84666221/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1236320/)
**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:** 5
**display title redacted:** Keeriparai Man vs 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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2015-12-10', '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 786,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Writ Appeal (MD) No.1311 of 2011', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84666221/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1236320/', '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:** Division Bench dismissed DSP's appeal; Rs.7,86,000 custodial-death compensation award stands.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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