{
 "record_id": "CW-2001-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0018",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Darrang",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mangaldoi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mangaldoi Police Station (arrest by Khairabari Police Station party)",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 1333 of 1995",
 "citation": "2002 ACJ 735",
 "judges": [
  "Ranjan Gogoi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2001-04-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1994-12-04",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "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": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 25,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mangaldoi man, age 25"
  }
 ],
 "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/550907/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/"
 ],
 "summary": "The High Court held that 25-year-old [name withheld], arrested in a TADA case by a Khairabari PS party in the early hours of 4 December 1994, was assaulted and tortured to death by police while in custody at Mangaldoi Police Station the same night. Relying on the Darrang District Judge enquiry, including eyewitness co-detenues, the Court rejected the police story that the handcuffed detenu fell while fleeing. The Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to his mother and directed the CBI to register an FIR and investigate; the Division Bench dismissed the State appeal in 2006 with Rs 10,000 costs, noting the State had already paid the compensation.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court held that 25-year-old [name withheld], arrested in a TADA case by a Khairabari PS party in the early hours of 4 December 1994, was assaulted and tortured to death by police while in custody at Mangaldoi Police Station the same night. Relying on the Darrang District Judge enquiry, including eyewitness co-detenues, the Court rejected the police story that the handcuffed detenu fell while fleeing. The Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to his mother and directed the CBI to register an FIR and investigate; the Division Bench dismissed the State appeal in 2006 with Rs 10,000 costs, noting the State had already paid the compensation.",
 "court_quote": "The statements of P.Ws. 6,7,11 and 12 who were present with the deceased while in police custody establishes the fact that the deceased was assaulted and tortured by police while in their custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Single Judge held [name withheld] tortured to death in Mangaldoi PS custody, awarded Rs 2 lakh and ordered CBI FIR; State appeal dismissed with Rs 10,000 costs.",
 "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": "2001-04-26",
   "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": "2002 ACJ 735",
   "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/550907/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/",
   "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-01",
  "chunk-r01"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}