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 "record_id": "CW-2002-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0667",
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 "display_title": "Guwahati Man v. State of Assam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man v. State of Assam and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan",
 "district_at_time": "Kamrup",
 "city_town": "Guwahati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Assam Police Armed Branch (Doordarshan Kendra duty party, Guwahati)",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Guwahati Man v. State of Assam and Others",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "AIR 2003 Gau 101",
 "judges": [
  "D. Biswas"
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 "judgment_date": "2002-09-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1997-10-24",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "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": [
  "IPC 302",
  "Arms Act s.27(3)",
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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   "rank": "Armed Branch Constable",
   "unit": "Assam Police, Guwahati (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "display": "Armed Branch Constable, Assam Police, Guwahati (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Unknown",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Unknown, Assam Police (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 29,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Guwahati man, age 29"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/100542/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/jagat-dhar-sharma-vs-state-of-assam-and-ors-on-3-september-2002",
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/420494/jagat-dhar-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/"
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Justice D. Biswas) awarded Rs 5 lakh to 65-year-old Jagat Dhar Sharma for the admitted on-duty gunshot killing of his 29-year-old engineer son [name withheld] on R.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati, on 24 October 1997. The Court found that armed constable, after quarrelling with a tea-stall keeper, fired aiming at the keeper in a crowded street with full knowledge of likely fatal injury to the public, and the bullet struck bystander a Guwahati man instead. Holding the State vicariously liable for this grave Article 21 violation, the Court ordered the languishing investigation completed within three months and recovery of the award from Deka and the duty-party members who failed to restrain him. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Justice D. Biswas) awarded Rs 5 lakh to 65-year-old Jagat Dhar Sharma for the admitted on-duty gunshot killing of his 29-year-old engineer son [name withheld] on R.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati, on 24 October 1997. The Court found that armed constable, after quarrelling with a tea-stall keeper, fired aiming at the keeper in a crowded street with full knowledge of likely fatal injury to the public, and the bullet struck bystander a Guwahati man instead. Holding the State vicariously liable for this grave Article 21 violation, the Court ordered the languishing investigation completed within three months and recovery of the award from Deka and the duty-party members who failed to restrain him.",
 "court_quote": "It is an admitted fact that a Guwahati man was killed by gunshot fired by ABC/264 Shri [name withheld] on duty. The gunshot was fired in a crowded place with the full knowledge that he was likely by such act to cause fatal injuries to the members of the public.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC judgment corroborated on legalindia/sooperkanoon/courtkutchehry; Rs 5L award, [name withheld] firing admitted.",
 "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"
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 "allegations": [
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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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2002-09-03",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR 2003 Gau 101",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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)",
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