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 "record_id": "CW-2005-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0267",
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 "display_title": "State of Tripura and Ors. vs Smt. Narayani S.",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Tripura and Ors. vs Smt. Narayani S.",
 "state": "Tripura",
 "district": "Dhalai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ambassa",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ambassa Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": "Agartala",
 "case_title": "State of Tripura and Ors. vs Smt. Narayani S.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2005 Cri LJ 4239",
 "judges": [
  "T. Vaiphei",
  "B.P. Katakey"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2005-09-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": "1991-07-28",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "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"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ambassa boy, age 16",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 16-year-old boy"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 250000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1053996/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1500820/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Agartala Division Bench) dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for the custodial death of 16-year-old a 16-year-old boy, affirming single judge W.A. Shishak's 23-06-1999 order in Civil Rule 482/1998. The court held he was subjected to brutal police torture in Ambassa custody after arrest on 28-07-1991 in a theft case (PS Case 9(7)/91), vindicated by ante-mortem injuries in the post-mortem, jail sick-book entries and his complaint to the Magistrate, dying on 10-08-1991 with no timely medical aid. Holding the State liable for the constitutional tort under Article 21, it directed payment of the Rs 2 lakh balance within two months (Rs 50,000 already paid), recoverable from erring officials, with Rs 5,000 costs for the meritless appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Agartala Division Bench) dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for the custodial death of 16-year-old Krishna Sharma, affirming single judge W.A. Shishak's 23-06-1999 order in Civil Rule 482/1998. The court held he was subjected to brutal police torture in Ambassa custody after arrest on 28-07-1991 in a theft case (PS Case 9(7)/91), vindicated by ante-mortem injuries in the post-mortem, jail sick-book entries and his complaint to the Magistrate, dying on 10-08-1991 with no timely medical aid. Holding the State liable for the constitutional tort under Article 21, it directed payment of the Rs 2 lakh balance within two months (Rs 50,000 already paid), recoverable from erring officials, with Rs 5,000 costs for the meritless appeal.",
 "court_quote": "The torture in the police custody, as held above, is also violative of the fundamental right of the detenue under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Agartala DB) upheld Rs 2.5L for custodial death of minor corrected to custodial_death.",
 "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": "2005-09-01",
   "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": "2005 Cri LJ 4239",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "court_quote",
    "court_quote_para",
    "officers"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1053996/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1500820/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}