Henan police bureau Wednesday confirmed the arrest of the real killers and accomplices of a murder case, for which farmer Zhao Zuohai was tortured and framed. Zhao's fellow villager, who was thought to have been murdered and decomposed, reappeared alive after Zhao had been in jail for 11 years.

The bureau also decided to mark the day of Zhao's release as "The Misjudgement Day", to warn all levels of court officials to examine and discipline themselves.

The real murderer, Li Haijin, with the help of three accomplices (one of them sentenced to death in 2006 for robbery and murder), killed and decomposed Gao Zongzhi's body over a business dispute on September 12, 1998. The killers fled after the media circulated the news of Zhao's release but were captured subsequently in May 2010.

The 57-year-old Zhao was released on May 9 when the supposed victim returned home, partially paralyzed, on April 30. He accused the police of torturing confession out of him, leaving him no choice but to plead himself guilty.. His wife, who remarried during his jail term, alleged that police beat and locked her up for a whole month to force her to confess Zhao's crime.

Zhao was compensated 650,000 yuan ($95,500), and the two police officers who tortured him more than a decade ago were arrested, though a third policeman remains at large.

Zhao's case was a Henan version of a similar case involving She Xianglin, a man from Hubei Province who served 11 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. In 2005, the man received a compensation of about 460,000 yuan ($67,385) , according to an earlier report by Modern Express.

The law on State compensation, adjusted at the end of April, states that victims of wrongful imprisonment are entitled to compensation for their emotional pain and suffering in addition to payment for their physical hardship behind bars.