# Puzhal Man and \[name withheld\] vs TN State Human Rights Commission

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## Report card

By judgment dated 12 June 2025 in W.P. Nos. 4569/2023 & 17866/2024, the Madras High Court (Coram: J. Nisha Banu, M. Jothiraman, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Inspector, M3 Puzhal Police Station, Chennai; Sub-Inspector, M3 Puzhal Police Station, Chennai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).

- Register number: TN 01 CW 0033
- Case reference: W.P. Nos. 4569/2023 & 17866/2024 / 2025 SCC OnLine Mad 3002
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: J. Nisha Banu, M. Jothiraman, JJ.), 12 June 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Inspector, M3 Puzhal Police Station, Chennai; Sub-Inspector, M3 Puzhal Police Station, Chennai
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The State Human Rights Commission after conducting enquiry comes to a conclusion that it is seen from the oral and documentary evidence of the parties, complainant/4th respondent/Mr.a Puzhal man was tortured and arrested by the police. Though there is no …” (at para 12)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/babu-rajendra-bose-v-tnshrc-606445.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0007)

**Record:** CW-2025-0007 (compiler id CWC-0779); case TAMILN-007; aliases: CWC-0360; CWC-0570; CWC-1472
**Title:** Puzhal Man and \[name withheld\] vs TN State Human Rights Commission
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: J. Nisha Banu; M. Jothiraman
**Case number / citation:** W.P. Nos. 4569/2023 & 17866/2024 / 2025 SCC OnLine Mad 3002
**Judgment:** 2025-06-12 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2013-12-20 (2013)
**Place:** Chennai, Tamil Nadu; city town: Puzhal; police station or unit: M3 Puzhal Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Inspector, M3 Puzhal Police Station, Chennai; Sub-Inspector, M3 Puzhal Police Station, Chennai (2 in record)
**Victims:** Puzhal man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the certiorari writ petitions of Inspector and Sub-Inspector of M3 Puzhal Police Station, upholding the Tamil Nadu SHRC order dated 13 November 2018 in SHRC No. 9744 of 2013 and the consequential GO(D) No. 987 of 2022. The SHRC had found that the officers, after falsely implicating complainant \[name withheld\] in Crime No. 2046 of 2013, picked him up around 3 AM on 20 December 2013, kept him in the lock-up till 22 December, stripped and beat him, coerced gold jewellery worth lakhs, and assaulted him again near the Kathirvedu bridge while taking him to jail. The Court held the SHRC recommendation binding and enforceable under Section 18 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, sustained the Rs 1 lakh compensation to the complainant with recovery from the two officers, and held police officials must respect human dignity and human-rights standing orders. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The State Human Rights Commission after conducting enquiry comes to a conclusion that it is seen from the oral and documentary evidence of the parties, complainant/4th respondent/Mr.a Puzhal man was tortured and arrested by the police. Though there is no serious injury to Mr.a Puzhal man, the torture made out him is a mental torture and the same also amounts to violation of Human Rights.

**Sources (6):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/babu-rajendra-bose-v-tnshrc-606445.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/madras-high-court-police-brutality-compensation-human-dignity-295731); [lawbeat.in](https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madras-high-court-upholds-shrc-order-to-recover-rs-1-lakh-from-cops-for-custodial-torture-1499924); [scconline.com](https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/06/27/mad-hc-compensation-for-custodial-torture-victim/); [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/madras-high-court/d-babu-rajendra-bose-v-the-tamil-nadu-state-human-rights-commissioner-human-rights-police-torture-1582509); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/198144494/)
**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:** 12
**display title redacted:** Puzhal Man and \[name withheld\] vs TN State Human Rights Commission
**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': '2025-06-12', '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 100,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2025 SCC OnLine Mad 3002', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/babu-rajendra-bose-v-tnshrc-606445.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/madras-high-court-police-brutality-compensation-human-dignity-295731', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madras-high-court-upholds-shrc-order-to-recover-rs-1-lakh-from-cops-for-custodial-torture-1499924', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/06/27/mad-hc-compensation-for-custodial-torture-victim/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/madras-high-court/d-babu-rajendra-bose-v-the-tamil-nadu-state-human-rights-commissioner-human-rights-police-torture-1582509', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/198144494/', '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:** Madras High Court Division Bench dismissed officers writs and upheld SHRC Rs 1 lakh compensation to a Puzhal man for custodial torture at M3 Puzhal PS, recoverable from Inspector and SI.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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