# M. M. v. Secretary to Government, Home Department and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 23 November 2021 in W.A. No.2558 of 2013, the Madras High Court (Coram: T. Raja, V. Sivagnanam, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Tindivanam Police Station, Viluppuram District, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: TN 15 CW 0003
- Case reference: W.A. No.2558 of 2013
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: T. Raja, V. Sivagnanam, JJ.), 23 November 2021
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Tindivanam Police Station, Viluppuram District
- 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; the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
- Finding of the Court (extract): “For all the aforementioned reasons, having been prima facie satisfied with the complaint of custodial violence, for outraging the modesty of the appellant, being the mother of two female children, while setting aside the order passed in the writ petition …” (at para 24)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
- 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/195356530/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2021-0020)

**Record:** CW-2021-0020 (compiler id CWC-1297); case GAP3-89-002
**Title:** M. M. v. Secretary to Government, Home Department and Others
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: T. Raja; V. Sivagnanam
**Case number / citation:** W.A. No.2558 of 2013
**Judgment:** 2021-11-23 (2021, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2011-01-26 (2011)
**Place:** Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu (district at time: Villupuram); city town: Tindivanam; police station or unit: Tindivanam Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art.21; Constitution Art.226; Protection of Human Rights Act 1993
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Tindivanam Police Station, Viluppuram District (3 in record)
**Victims:** Tindivanam woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. the survivor was admittedly taken from her Panruti home to Tindivanam Police Station on 26.01.2011 by mistaken identity, illegally detained over seven hours, beaten with a lathi and molested inside the station. Her SHRC complaint was dismissed for default and her writ petition dismissed on 08.11.2012 for not naming the policemen. On 23.11.2021 a Division Bench of the Madras High Court held both dismissals wrong, recorded prima facie satisfaction with the custodial-violence complaint, and invoked public-law compensation under D.K. Basu. The Court set aside both orders, directed Rs.3,00,000 interim compensation within four weeks, and remanded the matter to the SHRC to identify the officers and enquire afresh. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> For all the aforementioned reasons, having been prima facie satisfied with the complaint of custodial violence, for outraging the modesty of the appellant, being the mother of two female children, while setting aside the order passed in the writ petition as well as the order passed by the State Human Rights Commission, we remand the matter back to the file of the State Human Rights Commission to enquire into the complaint of the appellant afresh and find out who are the officers who have illegally detained the appellant and committed custodial violence on 26.1.2011, as per the procedure established by law, within a period of five months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, we also direct the respondent State to pay a sum of Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees three lakhs only) as interim compensation to the appellant within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, leaving it open to the State Human Rights Commission to do the needful on merits and in accordance with law.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/195356530/)
**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:** 24
**display title redacted:** M. M. v. Secretary to Government, Home Department 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': '2021-11-23', '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 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.A. No.2558 of 2013', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/195356530/', '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:** Division Bench recorded prima facie custodial violence, ordered Rs.3 lakh interim compensation, remanded to SHRC to identify officers.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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