Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

Police stations named in these records

• Athirampatnam 1
• Kabisthalam 1
• Melattur 1
• Naducauvery 1
• Papanadu 1
• Papavadu 1
• Taluk 1

High Court and Supreme Court findings 5

• Thanjavur Man v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 26 June 2023 · Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000) ordered
  The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. A Thanjavur man @ a Thanjavur man was picked up around 27.07.2002 for enquiry into electricity-wire theft, beaten with lathis in the station in his wife's presence, formally arrested on 01.08…
• Poothalur Man vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 16 December 2016 · Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000) ordered
  The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Bhanumathi petitioned under Article 226 for her son [name withheld], who sustained a head injury needing eight stitches around 20-21 April 2008 and was then booked in a theft case (Crime No.8…
• Adirampattinam Man v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 23 June 2009 · Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000) ordered
  The Madras High Court Division Bench (Justices P.K. Misra and R. Subbiah, judgment by R. Subbiah, J.) dismissed both the State's and the heirs' appeals against the 8 August 2003 single-judge award of Rs 3 lakh for an Adirampattinam man's illegal detention. Tak…
• Thanjavur Woman v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 22 March 2000 · Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000) ordered
  The Madras High Court held the State liable for the death of a Thanjavur woman at Burmah Colony, Thanjavur, during a prohibition raid on 22 November 1990, when Police Constable 902 [name withheld], while dragging men into a police van and beating people at sig…
• Budalur Man and Others vs State of Tamil Nadu and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 8 April 1999 · Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000) ordered
  The Madras High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 as public law compensation to the widow and four children of a Budalur man, who died under police custody at Budalur Police Station in Thanjavur district on 11.06.1981. An enquiry by the Revenue Divisional Officer conc…

Trial-court convictions 8

• State (DVAC) v. Thanjavur Police Sub-Inspector of Police Trial-court conviction · 24 February 2025
  The DVAC 'Convicted Cases [2024-2025]' official list records that a Sub-Inspector of Police of Melattur P.S., Thanjavur was convicted on 24.02.2025 by the CJM and Special Judge, Thanjavur @ Kumbakonam in Spl.C.C.No.29/2014. The officer's name is not published …
• Special C.C.No.12/2014 Trial-court conviction · 21 September 2023
  SSI convicted for demanding and accepting bribe.
• C.C.No.8/2014 Trial-court conviction · 30 May 2023
  SI convicted for demanding and accepting bribe.
• State (DVAC) v. Thanjavur Taluk Police Inspector of Police Trial-court conviction · 28 July 2022
  The DVAC official 'Convicted Cases [2022-2023]' list states that an Inspector of Police, Thanjavur Taluk Police Circle, Thanjavur District, was convicted on 28.07.2022 and sentenced to 2 years SI plus 2 years SI with Rs.1,000 fines by the CJM/Special Judge, Th…
• State (DV&AC Thanjavur, Cr.No.5 of 2002) v. Thanjavur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (A2) Trial-court conviction · 22 December 2017
  The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) records that Sub-Inspector of the CS-CID, with two colleagues, demanded and accepted a Rs.10,000 bribe from a gas-agency owner in June 2002, proved by a DV&AC trap with phenolphthalein-positive hands. The Special Judge-cum…
• State (DV&AC Thanjavur, Cr.No.5 of 2002) v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable (A3) Trial-court conviction · 22 December 2017
  The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) records that Head Constable of the CS-CID received the Rs.10,000 bribe amount at the direction of his superior officers in the June 2002 trap, with phenolphthalein-positive hands. The Special Judge-cum-CJM, Thanjavur at Ku…
• State (DVAC) v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable Trial-court conviction · 9 March 2012
  The DVAC official 'Convictions during 2011-12' list states that a Head Constable, Papavadu Police Station, Thanjavur District, was convicted on 09.03.2012 and sentenced to 3 years RI with a Rs.10,000 fine. Convicting court not stated on the list; name, case nu…
• State (V&AC Thanjavur) v. Thanjavur Police Head Constable 295 Trial-court conviction · 9 March 2012
  The Madras High Court records that Head Constable of Papanadu Police Station demanded Rs.1,000 to close a criminal case against the complainant's son and was caught in a V&AC trap at the station gate on 04.09.2002. The Special Court for PC Act Cases, Tiruchira…

Charged, not convicted 1

• Charged, not convicted 30 December 2022
  Tamil Nadu's Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption reported that it trapped and arrested a Special Sub-Inspector of Police of Thanjavur Police Station, Thanjavur district, on 30 December 2022 while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 for not registering an FIR against the complainant. This is an allegation: an arrest in a trap is not a conviction, and the officer is presumed innocent unless a court finds otherwise.