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 "display_title": "[name withheld] & Anr. Lamlai Man Ongbi Gambhini Devi",
 "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] & Anr. Lamlai Man Ongbi Gambhini Devi",
 "state": "Manipur",
 "district": "Imphal East",
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 "city_town": "Lamlai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Lamlai Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
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 "bench": "Imphal",
 "case_title": "[name withheld] & Anr. Lamlai Man Ongbi Gambhini Devi",
 "case_number": "First Appeal against Money Suit No. 3 of 1985 (31 of 2002)",
 "citation": "(2007) CriLJ 1491",
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 "judgment_date": "2006-11-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1983-06-13",
 "incident_year": 1983,
 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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  "IPC 304-A",
  "Arms Act s.25(1)(a)",
  "CrPC 46"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Naik",
   "unit": "Lamlai Police Station",
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   "display": "Police Constable, Lamlai Police Station"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 25,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Lamlai man, age 25"
  }
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 "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/1667853/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 13 June 1983 a Lamlai police party went to arrest a Lamlai man, 25, in a kidnapping case; when he fled, constables chased and fired, one bullet hit him and he died on the way to hospital. The criminal case under section 304-A IPC ended with the Officer-in-charge discharged and the constable acquitted, but the deceased's mother won a Rs.5 lakh money-suit decree against the five officers. On 29 November 2006 the High Court held that where a government servant causes death in violation of law while on duty, the State must compensate first and may recover from the erring servants. It maintained the Rs.5 lakh award (no interest) but modified the decree so the State of Manipur pays within three months, recoverable from the officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 13 June 1983 a Lamlai police party went to arrest a Lamlai man, 25, in a kidnapping case; when he fled, constables chased and fired, one bullet hit him and he died on the way to hospital. The criminal case under section 304-A IPC ended with the Officer-in-charge discharged and the constable acquitted, but the deceased's mother won a Rs.5 lakh money-suit decree against the five officers. On 29 November 2006 the High Court held that where a government servant causes death in violation of law while on duty, the State must compensate first and may recover from the erring servants. It maintained the Rs.5 lakh award (no interest) but modified the decree so the State of Manipur pays within three months, recoverable from the officers.",
 "court_quote": "In other words, the amount of compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs is hereby maintained. However, it is made clear that the plaintiff/respondent No. 1 shall not be entitled to any interest thereon till date. The State is directed to make the aforesaid payment within 3 (three) months from today.",
 "court_quote_para": "19",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rs.5L award for death by police firing maintained; State ordered to pay within 3 months.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
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   "date": "2006-11-29",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(2007) CriLJ 1491",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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