{ "record_id": "CW-1992-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0930", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Agartala Man vs State of Tripura", "display_title_redacted": "Agartala Man vs State of Tripura", "state": "Tripura", "district": "West Tripura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agartala", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Agartala", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Agartala", "case_title": "Agartala Man vs State of Tripura", "case_number": "F.A. No. 5 of 1983 (from Money Suit No. 6 of 1978)", "citation": "1993 (2) GLR 214; 1994 ACJ 858", "judges": [ "S.K. Homchaudhuri", "N.G. Das" ], "judgment_date": "1992-01-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1992, "incident_date": "1976-04-26", "incident_year": 1976, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 379", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 300" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Agartala", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Kotwali Police Station, Agartala" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": 18, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Agartala man, age 18" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134538/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/428376/ranubala-sutradhar-appellant-hash-state-of-tripura-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court allowed the first appeal of Ranubala Sutradhar and set aside the trial court's dismissal of her damages suit. The court recorded that her 18-year-old son [name withheld], arrested for theft on the night of 25.04.1976, was found dead in the Kotwali (Agartala) lock-up on the morning of 26.04.1976. It held the death in custody was attributable to the gross negligence of the Kotwali police officials and that Kasturilal's sovereign-immunity defence could not defeat a damages claim for an Article 21 violation. The suit was decreed for Rs 1 lakh with costs throughout, payable within two months, with 15% p.a. interest on default. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court allowed the first appeal of Ranubala Sutradhar and set aside the trial court's dismissal of her damages suit. The court recorded that her 18-year-old son [name withheld], arrested for theft on the night of 25.04.1976, was found dead in the Kotwali (Agartala) lock-up on the morning of 26.04.1976. It held the death in custody was attributable to the gross negligence of the Kotwali police officials and that Kasturilal's sovereign-immunity defence could not defeat a damages claim for an Article 21 violation. The suit was decreed for Rs 1 lakh with costs throughout, payable within two months, with 15% p.a. interest on default.", "court_quote": "In the instant case the claim for damages has arisen due to deprivation of life of the son of the plaintiff in the police custody due to gross negligence of the State machinery and the deceased has been deprived of his life in flagrant violation of fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: appeal allowed, suit decreed Rs 1L; Division Bench F.A. No. 5/1983 (agent said Single Bench).", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1992-01-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1993 (2) GLR 214; 1994 ACJ 858", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "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", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134538/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/428376/ranubala-sutradhar-appellant-hash-state-of-tripura-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-69" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-41-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }