{ "record_id": "CW-2006-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0263", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Loitang Khunou Woman vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Loitang Khunou Woman vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Loitang Khunou (Lamsang)", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Loitang Khunou Woman vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2006 Cri LJ 1895", "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2006-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1999-02-15", "incident_year": 1999, "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": [ "Constitution Art 21", "Constitution Art 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Pebam John Singh", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.19, "jev_p_culpable": 0.87, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Pebam John Singh", "display": "Pebam John Singh (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commando Unit" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector (OC)", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.88, "jev_p_culpable": 0.29, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector (OC), Manipur Police Commando Unit" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Loitang Khunou 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/117071/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Loitang Khunou man @ a Loitang Khunou man was in the custody of five Manipur Police Commando personnel (respondents 6-10) led by SI Pebam John Singh when he was shot dead at Loitang Khunou on 15-02-1999 in a staged encounter, rejecting the police version. The court found the commandos took him to Loitang Khunou instead of the lock-up at their own risk and were liable for the loss of life in their protection and custody. Holding the State vicariously liable for the constitutional tort, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation payable within three months, the respondents jointly and severally liable. The staged FIR (Lamsang PS 7(2)/99 under Sections 121/121-A/307/302/34 IPC) did not save the encounter claim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Loitang Khunou man @ a Loitang Khunou man was in the custody of five Manipur Police Commando personnel (respondents 6-10) led by SI Pebam John Singh when he was shot dead at Loitang Khunou on 15-02-1999 in a staged encounter, rejecting the police version. The court found the commandos took him to Loitang Khunou instead of the lock-up at their own risk and were liable for the loss of life in their protection and custody. Holding the State vicariously liable for the constitutional tort, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation payable within three months, the respondents jointly and severally liable. The staged FIR (Lamsang PS 7(2)/99 under Sections 121/121-A/307/302/34 IPC) did not save the encounter claim.", "court_quote": "From the view of what has been discussed above, I am of the considered view that late a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man was in the custody of respondents 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 at the time of the incidence on 15-2-1999 and they (respondents 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) are liable for loss of the life of a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man who was very much in their protection and custody, and at their own risks they (respondents 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) had taken a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man to Loitang Khunou instead of keeping him in the police lock-up and thereby resulting to the loss of the life of a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man at Loitang Khunou on 15-2-1999.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held a Loitang Khunou man shot in custody in fake encounter; Rs 3L, respondents jointly/severally liable.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2006-01-31", "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 Cri LJ 1895", "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/117071/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-008", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }