# Jayakumar vs State Of Kerala

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## Report card

By judgment dated 7 January 2020 in Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014, the Kerala High Court (Coram: A. Hariprasad, N. Anil Kumar, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Jayakumar (Police Constable); M. Venugopal (Police Constable), and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: KL 02 CW 0011
- Case reference: Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014
- Court and date: Kerala High Court (Coram: A. Hariprasad, N. Anil Kumar, JJ.), 7 January 2020
- Officer(s) at the material time: Jayakumar (Police Constable); M. Venugopal (Police Constable)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 348 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We are satisfied with the evidence that the deceased was tortured by A1 and A2 with an intention to extract confession in connection with a theft case.” (at para 74)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 5 years. 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/121952943/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2020-0002)

**Record:** CW-2020-0002 (compiler id CWC-0201); case KERALA-001
**Title:** Jayakumar vs State Of Kerala
**Court:** Kerala High Court; judges: A. Hariprasad; N. Anil Kumar
**Case number / citation:** Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014
**Judgment:** 2020-01-07 (2020, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2005-04-06 (2005)
**Place:** Kollam, Kerala; city town: Kollam; police station or unit: East Police Station, Kollam; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 304 Part II; IPC 34; IPC 348
**Officers (gated display forms):** Jayakumar (Police Constable); M. Venugopal (Police Constable) (2 in record)
**Victims:** Kollam man, age 37 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 5 yrs; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Kollam man, picked up from Sanker's Hospital, Kollam, on 6 April 2005 on suspicion of mobile-phone theft, was informally detained without recording arrest and tortured by two crime-squad constables of Kollam East Police Station at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel police museum lock-up to extract a confession; he died the same evening and the death was homicidal. The trial court convicted both constables of custodial murder under Sections 302 and 348 read with Section 34 IPC. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court held the deceased was in the exclusive custody of the two accused and, finding no intent to kill, altered the murder conviction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder with five years rigorous imprisonment each, confirmed the wrongful-confinement conviction and sentences to run concurrently, and left the Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim's mother undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We are satisfied with the evidence that the deceased was tortured by A1 and A2 with an intention to extract confession in connection with a theft case.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121952943/); [humanrights.asia](http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UP-87-2005/)
**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:** 74
**display title redacted:** Jayakumar vs State Of Kerala
**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': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2020-01-07', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Kerala High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Kerala High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'Crl.A. No. 1267 of 2014', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121952943/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/UP-87-2005/', '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:** Kerala HC Division Bench upheld custodial-death conviction of two Kollam East constables, altering s.302 to s.304 Part II with 5 years RI and confirming s.348 conviction and Rs 2 lakh compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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