Justice R Vijayakumar passed the order on a petition filed by Vasanthi (name changed) in 2016, seeking `1 crore compensation. Vasanthi, working as a yoga teacher in Kanniyakumari, rented a house with her family in 2009. But without returning the deposit amount, the landlord kept coercing them to vacate the house.

In April 2010, Vasanthi was arrested by Thiruvattar police on a false complaint claiming that she invited a man for prostitution. She was also detained in a rehabilitation home for 13 days. However, a subsequent inquiry conducted by a deputy superintendent of police in 2011 revealed she was innocent and that she had been framed by the local police personnel, at the instigation of the landlord, by misusing the signature obtained on a blank paper from a traffic offender.

Following this, the case against Vasanthi was quashed. But, citing that the incident was widely published in the media and had damaged her and her reputation, she sought Rupees 1 crore compensation from the government.