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 "record_id": "CW-2005-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0261",
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 "display_title": "Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.",
 "state": "Meghalaya",
 "district": "East Khasi Hills",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Shillong",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Laitumkhrah Police Beat House",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2007(1) GLT 228",
 "judges": [
  "A. Hazarika"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2005-08-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": "2002-04-15",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "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": [
  "IPC 302"
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   "rank": "UB Constable (UBC 747)",
   "unit": "Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "UB Constable (UBC 747), Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 23,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shillong man, age 23"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 250000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1287374/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that 23-year-old businessman [name withheld], brutally assaulted by on-duty police at the Rangali Bihu venue on the night of 15-04-2002 and taken to the Laitumkhrah Beat House, died of those injuries on 18-04-2002. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem report, the court rejected the SP's cover-up affidavit based on falsehood and held the State failed to discharge its burden. Finding an Article 21 violation, it awarded another Rs 1.5 lakh over the Rs 1 lakh ex gratia already paid (Rs 2.5 lakh total), payable within two months. A murder case (Laitumkhrah PS Case 25(4)02 under Section 302 IPC) was already registered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that 23-year-old businessman [name withheld], brutally assaulted by on-duty police at the Rangali Bihu venue on the night of 15-04-2002 and taken to the Laitumkhrah Beat House, died of those injuries on 18-04-2002. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem report, the court rejected the SP's cover-up affidavit based on falsehood and held the State failed to discharge its burden. Finding an Article 21 violation, it awarded another Rs 1.5 lakh over the Rs 1 lakh ex gratia already paid (Rs 2.5 lakh total), payable within two months. A murder case (Laitumkhrah PS Case 25(4)02 under Section 302 IPC) was already registered.",
 "court_quote": "The affidavit filed by the superintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills is not encouraging. Rather it has tried to cover up the story based on falsehood.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held police atrocity killed a Shillong man; addl Rs 1.5L (Rs 2.5L total with ex gratia).",
 "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": "2005-08-05",
   "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 250,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2007(1) GLT 228",
   "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": [
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 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1287374/",
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 "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}