{ "record_id": "CW-1997-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0270", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chandel Man vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chandel Man vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Chandel", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chandel", "police_station_or_unit": "Chandel Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chandel Man vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1998 ACJ 1298", "judges": [ "W.A. Shishak", "P.K. Ghosh" ], "judgment_date": "1997-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1989-01-28", "incident_year": 1989, "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 302", "IPC 202", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chandel Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Chandel Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chandel man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/274318/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that Ningthoujam Angou Singh, a PHED pump operator, died in the custody of Chandel police on 28 January 1989, hours after a six-man armed party led by ASI took him from his home without disclosing any case. The Court found he was brought to Chandel hospital in a dying condition with severe injuries and that police fabricated an arrest in FIR 5(1)89 under Section 302 IPC. It allowed the CLAHRO petition and directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 to the widow and minor children within three months. The Court left it open to the State to recover the amount from the persons found responsible for the custodial death. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that N. A. S., a PHED pump operator, died in the custody of Chandel police on 28 January 1989, hours after a six-man armed party led by ASI took him from his home without disclosing any case. The Court found he was brought to Chandel hospital in a dying condition with severe injuries and that police fabricated an arrest in FIR 5(1)89 under Section 302 IPC. It allowed the CLAHRO petition and directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 to the widow and minor children within three months. The Court left it open to the State to recover the amount from the persons found responsible for the custodial death.", "court_quote": "On careful perusal of the documents placed before us and after hearing counsel of both sides and in the facts and circumstances narrated above, we are of the view that death of N. Angou Singh in police custody has been established. In such a situation, the only remedy we can think of is to award compensation so that the members of the family of the deceased may not be driven to destitution.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC DB held custodial death established and awarded Rs 2 lakh; 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": "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": "1997-08-01", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1998 ACJ 1298", "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/274318/", "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-29" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }