# Government of Tamil Nadu v. P. Amaravathi

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## Report card

By judgment dated 26 June 2025 in W.A. No. 2874 of 2023, the Madras High Court (Coram: Anita Sumanth, N. Senthilkumar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Inspector of Police, Uraiyur Police Station, Tiruchirappalli; Police personnel, Police team, Uraiyur Police Station matter, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000).

- Register number: TN 45 CW 0014
- Case reference: W.A. No. 2874 of 2023 / 2025:MHC:1533
- Court and date: Madras High Court (Coram: Anita Sumanth, N. Senthilkumar, JJ.), 26 June 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Inspector of Police, Uraiyur Police Station, Tiruchirappalli; Police personnel, Police team, Uraiyur Police Station matter
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “This fact is admitted and in light of the same, particularly on account of the fact that he was in the custody of the police during the period when the contusions had occurred leading to hemorrhage and subsequent death, there …” (at para 15)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000).
- 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/73412366/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0042)

**Record:** CW-2025-0042 (compiler id CWC-1303); case GAP3-90-003
**Title:** Government of Tamil Nadu v. P. Amaravathi
**Court:** Madras High Court; judges: Anita Sumanth; N. Senthilkumar
**Case number / citation:** W.A. No. 2874 of 2023 / 2025:MHC:1533
**Judgment:** 2025-06-26 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1995-04-05 (1995)
**Place:** Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu; city town: Tiruchirappalli; police station or unit: Uraiyur Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** CrPC 174; CrPC 200
**Officers (gated display forms):** Inspector of Police, Uraiyur Police Station, Tiruchirappalli; Police personnel, Police team, Uraiyur Police Station matter (2 in record)
**Victims:** Tiruchirappalli man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Tiruchirappalli man was picked up from his residence for interrogation around 5 a.m. on 5 April 1995 by Inspector, \[name withheld\] and other police officials, and died the same day; the post-mortem found death by shock and haemorrhage from multiple contusions. A single judge allowed his widow's writ petition in 2017 and awarded Rs.10.5 lakh compensation against the State. On 26 June 2025 a Division Bench dismissed the State's appeal, holding that the injuries could only have been inflicted by the police in whose custody a Tiruchirappalli man was, that the benefit-of-doubt acquittal of A2 (the product of a half-baked investigation confined to two officers) was no bar to compensation, and that the victim-compensation scheme cap did not apply. The court confirmed the compensation and ordered disbursal of the amount lying in court deposit with accrued interest. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> This fact is admitted and in light of the same, particularly on account of the fact that he was in the custody of the police during the period when the contusions had occurred leading to hemorrhage and subsequent death, there is no doubt in our mind that the police officials were responsible for the injuries/contusions leading to the demise of a Tiruchirappalli man

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/73412366/)
**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:** 15
**display title redacted:** Government of Tamil Nadu v. P. Amaravathi
**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': '2025-06-26', '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 1,050,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2025:MHC:1533', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/73412366/', '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:** DB dismissed State appeal; custodial-torture death finding and Rs.10.5L compensation confirmed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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