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 "display_title": "Gopal Ch. Morigaon Man and Another v. State of Assam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Gopal Ch. Morigaon Man and Another v. State of Assam and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Morigaon",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Morigaon",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Morigaon Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Gopal Ch. Morigaon Man and Another v. State of Assam and Others",
 "case_number": "Civil Rule Nos. 3809 and 4032 of 1994",
 "citation": "(2000) 1 GLT 643",
 "judges": [
  "D.N. Chowdhury"
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 "judgment_date": "2000-02-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2000,
 "incident_date": "1994-08-06",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Nakhyatra Bora",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Assam Police, Morigaon",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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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": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Nakhyatra Bora",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 24,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Morigaon man, age 24"
  },
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   "name": null,
   "age": 40,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Morigaon man, age 40"
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. College student a Morigaon man (24) was picked up from his Morigaon home on 6 August 1994 by a team including SI Nakhyatra Bora with SULFA members and CRPF, seen in the Morigaon lockup, then shot dead at point-blank range in a staged encounter at Mayengia village. Separately, office assistant a Morigaon man died of custodial torture injuries including a fractured femur, which police falsely ascribed to a fall. Accepting District Judge inquiry reports and medical evidence, the Gauhati High Court held both men died in police custody in defiance of the law of the land and rejected the encounter and accidental-fall versions. It awarded Rs.2,50,000 plus Rs.15,000 costs to each family, payable within six months, leaving the State free to proceed against and recover from the erring officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "College student a Morigaon man (24) was picked up from his Morigaon home on 6 August 1994 by a team including SI Nakhyatra Bora with SULFA members and CRPF, seen in the Morigaon lockup, then shot dead at point-blank range in a staged encounter at Mayengia village. Separately, office assistant a Morigaon man died of custodial torture injuries including a fractured femur, which police falsely ascribed to a fall. Accepting District Judge inquiry reports and medical evidence, the Gauhati High Court held both men died in police custody in defiance of the law of the land and rejected the encounter and accidental-fall versions. It awarded Rs.2,50,000 plus Rs.15,000 costs to each family, payable within six months, leaving the State free to proceed against and recover from the erring officers.",
 "court_quote": "Both of them died in Police custody in defiance of the law of the land. In both the cases there is unconstitutional deprivation of personal liberty and life.",
 "court_quote_para": "23",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held both men died in police custody; Rs.2.5L + costs to each family confirmed in text.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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   "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"
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   "date": "2000-02-17",
   "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 530,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2000) 1 GLT 643",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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