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 "record_id": "CW-2001-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0861",
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 "display_title": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati Man and Others vs State of Assam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati Man and Others vs State of Assam and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan",
 "district_at_time": "Kamrup",
 "city_town": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dispur Police Station (escort party)",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati Man and Others vs State of Assam and Others",
 "case_number": "WP (C) No. 4567 of 1999",
 "citation": "(2003) 1 GLR 659",
 "judges": [
  "D. Biswas"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2001-09-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1998-11-27",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Assam Police (Dispur PS case party)",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Assam Police (Dispur PS case party)"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable and armed personnel",
   "unit": "Assam Police (escort party)",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable and armed personnel, Assam Police (escort party)"
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 "officer_count": null,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man"
  }
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 "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/1837649/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/418227/enu-begum-and-others-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/"
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court disposed of the writ petition of the wife and children of a Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man, arrested on 27.11.1998 in a Dispur dacoity case and shot dead the same day by his police escort near Pachim Boragaon. Adopting the District Judge (Kamrup) enquiry report, the court found the handcuffed detenu was shot in the back of the chest though the escort could have fired at his legs. It held the force was in excess of necessity and the police negligent and guilty of misconduct in causing a custodial death. Applying D.K. Basu and Nilabati Behera, the court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed action against the defaulting personnel plus thorough criminal investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court disposed of the writ petition of the wife and children of a Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man, arrested on 27.11.1998 in a Dispur dacoity case and shot dead the same day by his police escort near Pachim Boragaon. Adopting the District Judge (Kamrup) enquiry report, the court found the handcuffed detenu was shot in the back of the chest though the escort could have fired at his legs. It held the force was in excess of necessity and the police negligent and guilty of misconduct in causing a custodial death. Applying D.K. Basu and Nilabati Behera, the court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed action against the defaulting personnel plus thorough criminal investigation.",
 "court_quote": "The force applied by the police has been definitely in excess of what was necessary. Therefore, they were negligent and guilty of misconduct in causing the death of a man in custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: Rs 2L compensation; handcuffed detenu shot in back; WP(C) 4567/1999.",
 "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": "2001-09-10",
   "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": "(2003) 1 GLR 659",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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