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 "record_id": "CW-2004-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0275",
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 "display_title": "Kiphire Man vs State of Nagaland and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kiphire Man vs State of Nagaland and Ors.",
 "state": "Nagaland",
 "district": "Kiphire",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kiphire",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kiphire Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kiphire Man vs State of Nagaland and Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(2006) 1 GLR 806",
 "judges": [
  "B.P. Katakey"
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 "judgment_date": "2004-12-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "2001-07-24",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "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",
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   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "unit": "Kiphire Police Station",
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Kiphire Police Station"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Kiphire Police Station",
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    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "key2": "no",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
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   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.1,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kiphire Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kiphire man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/756882/",
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that a Kiphire man was locked in Kiphire police station lockup on the night of 24 July 2001 without any legal authority and found dead inside the lockup the next morning, accepting the ADC(J) Tuensang enquiry findings. It found his body was disposed of without following mandatory legal procedure including post-mortem. Though the enquiry could not pin direct responsibility on any individual, the Court awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation plus Rs 15,000 costs, with half the compensation secured for the children. The finding rests on illegal detention combined with death in custody rather than proven torture. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that a Kiphire man was locked in Kiphire police station lockup on the night of 24 July 2001 without any legal authority and found dead inside the lockup the next morning, accepting the ADC(J) Tuensang enquiry findings. It found his body was disposed of without following mandatory legal procedure including post-mortem. Though the enquiry could not pin direct responsibility on any individual, the Court awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation plus Rs 15,000 costs, with half the compensation secured for the children. The finding rests on illegal detention combined with death in custody rather than proven torture.",
 "court_quote": "It is concluded that Lt. A Kiphire man was lock up on the night of 24.7.2001 at Kiphire Police Station without legal authority and he was found dead inside the police lock-up the next morning.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held illegal lockup plus death in custody and awarded Rs 3 lakh; matches adverse_finding_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": "2004-12-07",
   "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 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2006) 1 GLR 806",
   "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/756882/",
   "link_checked": null
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 "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-016",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}