{ "record_id": "CW-2006-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0420", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Howrah Man vs Secretary, Department of Home & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Howrah Man vs Secretary, Department of Home & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Howrah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Howrah", "police_station_or_unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Howrah Man vs Secretary, Department of Home & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2007) 1 CALLT 589 (HC); 2007 (1) CHN 351", "judges": [ "Bhaskar Bhattacharya", "Prabuddh Sankar Banerjee" ], "judgment_date": "2006-11-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1980-02-26", "incident_year": 1980, "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 304 Part II", "IPC 34", "Constitution of India Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Golabari Police Station, Howrah" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Golabari Police Station, Howrah" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Golabari Police Station, Howrah", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Golabari Police Station, Howrah" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Howrah man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1149295/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56096051e4b01497112cc667", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/882823/padma-rani-thakur-vs-secretary-department" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. The appellant's son, a railway employee in his twenties, was arrested on 26 February 1980 and beaten to death at Golabari police station, Howrah; police refused to register the family's complaint, forcing the father to approach the SDJM. The Sessions Court acquitted all accused policemen, but a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court reversed the acquittal in 1990 and convicted three policemen under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC, a finding the Supreme Court affirmed while unifying the sentences at five years' rigorous imprisonment each. After the victim's father was murdered at the instance of the convicted policemen, the victim's mother sought compensation. The Division Bench held the State vicariously liable for the custodial death, rejected the delay objection, and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The appellant's son, a railway employee in his twenties, was arrested on 26 February 1980 and beaten to death at Golabari police station, Howrah; police refused to register the family's complaint, forcing the father to approach the SDJM. The Sessions Court acquitted all accused policemen, but a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court reversed the acquittal in 1990 and convicted three policemen under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC, a finding the Supreme Court affirmed while unifying the sentences at five years' rigorous imprisonment each. After the victim's father was murdered at the instance of the convicted policemen, the victim's mother sought compensation. The Division Bench held the State vicariously liable for the custodial death, rejected the delay objection, and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs.", "court_quote": "ends of justice will be met if we direct the State Government to pay a lump sum of Rs. 5 lakh to the appellant in addition to the fines realised from the convicted persons", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC Division Bench awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for 1980 custodial death at Golabari PS after convictions were affirmed by SC.", "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": "2006-11-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 1 CALLT 589 (HC); 2007 (1) CHN 351", "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/1149295/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56096051e4b01497112cc667", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/882823/padma-rani-thakur-vs-secretary-department", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }