{
 "record_id": "CW-2003-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0917",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Dhupdhara Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dhupdhara Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Goalpara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhupdhara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dhupdhara Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Dhupdhara Man vs State of Assam and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 131 of 1998",
 "citation": "(2003) CriLJ 4536; (2003) 2 GLR 386",
 "judges": [
  "B.B. Deb"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-03-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "1997-09-08",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "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": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Dhupdhara man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 50000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/583806/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/135335/jahira-nessa-bewa-vs-state-assam-ors"
 ],
 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (B.B. Deb, J.) allowed the writ petition arising from the death of a Dhupdhara man, arrested on 8 September 1997 and found hanged inside the Dhupdhara police lock-up the same afternoon. The Court rejected the torture-murder allegation on the post-mortem evidence but held the death was a suicide enabled by gross and reckless negligence of the lock-up staff, noting a blanket had no business inside the lock-up in September and the iron-barred lock-up was visible from the duty point. It awarded Rs. 50,000 compensation to the widow, payable within 45 days, and left the State free to enquire into and proceed against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (B.B. Deb, J.) allowed the writ petition arising from the death of a Dhupdhara man, arrested on 8 September 1997 and found hanged inside the Dhupdhara police lock-up the same afternoon. The Court rejected the torture-murder allegation on the post-mortem evidence but held the death was a suicide enabled by gross and reckless negligence of the lock-up staff, noting a blanket had no business inside the lock-up in September and the iron-barred lock-up was visible from the duty point. It awarded Rs. 50,000 compensation to the widow, payable within 45 days, and left the State free to enquire into and proceed against the erring officials.",
 "court_quote": "The deceased committed suicide while in custody and that was due to gross negligence of the Police personnel of that PS and thus, the Police authority cannot totally absolve its liability.",
 "court_quote_para": "5",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: custodial suicide due to police negligence, Rs 50,000 compensation.",
 "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": "2003-03-06",
   "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 50,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2003) CriLJ 4536; (2003) 2 GLR 386",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/583806/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/135335/jahira-nessa-bewa-vs-state-assam-ors",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-15"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-009",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}