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 "record_id": "CW-1999-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0035",
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 "display_title": "Guwahati Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan",
 "district_at_time": "Kamrup",
 "city_town": "Guwahati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Noonmati Police Station, Guwahati",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Guwahati Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 1600 of 1995",
 "citation": "(1999) 05 GAU CK 0039",
 "judges": [
  "J. N. Sarma"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1999-05-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1999,
 "incident_date": "1995-01-02",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "unit": "Noonmati Police Station, Guwahati",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gpt:unclear"
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "yes",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.33,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.85,
   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Noonmati Police Station, Guwahati"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police (City)",
   "unit": "Guwahati City",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gpt:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "yes",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.13,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.9,
   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police (City), Guwahati City"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 25,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Guwahati man, age 25"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427564/subhangsu-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/",
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held Noonmati police guilty of torturing 25-year-old deaf-mute, mentally retarded a Guwahati man in the lock-up on 2 January 1995. The Court accepted the Additional District Judge's enquiry finding that the boy, picked up on false charges, was beaten through the night sustaining fractures in both legs, denied food and water, and that OC had knowledge while SP (City) [name withheld] took no action on the complaint. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation (Rs 75,000 State, Rs 25,000 from the two officers' salaries) and directed a criminal case against the OC and disciplinary action against both officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held Noonmati police guilty of torturing 25-year-old deaf-mute, mentally retarded a Guwahati man in the lock-up on 2 January 1995. The Court accepted the Additional District Judge's enquiry finding that the boy, picked up on false charges, was beaten through the night sustaining fractures in both legs, denied food and water, and that OC had knowledge while SP (City) [name withheld] took no action on the complaint. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation (Rs 75,000 State, Rs 25,000 from the two officers' salaries) and directed a criminal case against the OC and disciplinary action against both officers.",
 "court_quote": "That on 2.1.95 a Guwahati man, a physically handicapped and mentally retarded person was tortured at Noonmati P.S. by police personnel causing fractural injuries in his both legs.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 2 (enquiry finding (i) adopted by court)",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Custodial torture of disabled youth proved; Rs 1L compensation plus prosecution/disciplinary directions.",
 "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 torture",
   "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": "1999-05-11",
   "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": "(1999) 05 GAU CK 0039",
   "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": []
  }
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-022",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}