{
 "record_id": "CW-1997-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0273",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.",
 "state": "Manipur",
 "district": "Churachandpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien village",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Imphal Police",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 612 of 1992",
 "citation": "(1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203",
 "judges": [
  "B.P. Jeevan Reddy",
  "S.C. Sen"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1997-02-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": "1991-04-03",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/544871/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "On PUCL's Article 32 petition, the Supreme Court accepted a District Judge inquiry finding that Imphal police caught villagers of Lunthilian on the night of 3 April 1991, trucked them away and shot dead a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man in custody on 4 April 1991, holding there was no encounter. The Court noted three other villagers were kept in custody for months until 22 July 1991. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each bereaved family payable by the Manipur government through the District Magistrate within two months, plus Rs 10,000 costs to PUCL. The Court left punishment of the offenders to the criminal courts while granting public-law compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On PUCL's Article 32 petition, the Supreme Court accepted a District Judge inquiry finding that Imphal police caught villagers of Lunthilian on the night of 3 April 1991, trucked them away and shot dead a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man in custody on 4 April 1991, holding there was no encounter. The Court noted three other villagers were kept in custody for months until 22 July 1991. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each bereaved family payable by the Manipur government through the District Magistrate within two months, plus Rs 10,000 costs to PUCL. The Court left punishment of the offenders to the criminal courts while granting public-law compensation.",
 "court_quote": "there was no encounter in the night between 3-4-1991 and 4-4-1991 at Nungthulien Village. The two deceased, namely, a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man were shot dead by the police while in custody on 4-4-1991.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court held the 1991 killings were custodial murders, not an encounter, and awarded Rs 1 lakh per family; matches adverse_finding_compensation.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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": "1997-02-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/544871/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-29"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-027",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}