# Chennai Man v. The State Human Rights Commission and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 6 June 2025 in W.P. No.4456 of 2020, the Madras High Court (Coram: M. Sundar, Hemant Chandangoudar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Home Guard, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai; Police personnel, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: TN 01 CW 0032
- Case reference: W.P. No.4456 of 2020
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: M. Sundar, Hemant Chandangoudar, JJ.), 6 June 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Home Guard, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai; Police personnel, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Therefore, we refrain from dilating on facts and we deem it appropriate to write that it will suffice to say that this is a case of established / proved custodial violence.” (at para 4)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/53572420/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0040)

**Record:** CW-2025-0040 (compiler id CWC-1302); case GAP3-90-002
**Title:** Chennai Man v. The State Human Rights Commission and Others
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: M. Sundar; Hemant Chandangoudar
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No.4456 of 2020
**Judgment:** 2025-06-06 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2016-03-11 (2016)
**Place:** Chennai, Tamil Nadu; city town: Chennai; police station or unit: F2 Egmore Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** CrPC 174; Constitution Art. 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Home Guard, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai; Police personnel, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai (2 in record)
**Victims:** Chennai man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Chennai man was picked up for interrogation around 11 p.m. on 11.03.2016 and subjected to custodial violence; he died on 12.06.2016, with the question whether the violence was the proximate cause of death left open. The Tamil Nadu SHRC took suo-motu cognizance on 13.03.2016, held custodial violence established on evidence, and awarded Rs.2 lakh on 12.12.2019, which the State never challenged. His mother \[name withheld\] sought enhancement before the Madras High Court. On 06.06.2025 a Division Bench recorded proved custodial violence and, by consent, raised total compensation to Rs.5 lakh (Rs.3 lakh additional from the Home Department), leaving FIR No.1130/2016 under section 174 CrPC and recovery from erring officials to proceed independently. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Therefore, we refrain from dilating on facts and we deem it appropriate to write that it will suffice to say that this is a case of established / proved custodial violence.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/53572420/)
**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:** 4
**display title redacted:** Chennai Man v. The State Human Rights Commission 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': '2025-06-06', '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 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P. No.4456 of 2020', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/53572420/', '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 proved custodial violence; enhanced total compensation to Rs.5 lakh on consent; s.174 CrPC probe left open.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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