{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0260", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "West Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mairang", "police_station_or_unit": "Mairang Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864", "judges": [ "T. Vaiphei" ], "judgment_date": "2007-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1998-09-02", "incident_year": 1998, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Mairang Police Station", "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": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Mairang Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 27, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mairang man, age 27" } ], "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/496845/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Mairang man, 27, handed by the village durbar to Mairang police on 02-09-1998 on a cattle-theft suspicion, died of custodial violence, rejecting the State's malaria-death claim. The court relied on the District Judge's enquiry which found foul play, contradictory medical reports and remand violations, and found a cover-up in collusion with medical officers. Holding the State strictly liable under Articles 21/226, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation to the widow within two months. It directed an enquiry to identify the police personnel involved, with recovery of the compensation from them, leaving civil remedies open. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Mairang man, 27, handed by the village durbar to Mairang police on 02-09-1998 on a cattle-theft suspicion, died of custodial violence, rejecting the State's malaria-death claim. The court relied on the District Judge's enquiry which found foul play, contradictory medical reports and remand violations, and found a cover-up in collusion with medical officers. Holding the State strictly liable under Articles 21/226, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation to the widow within two months. It directed an enquiry to identify the police personnel involved, with recovery of the compensation from them, leaving civil remedies open.", "court_quote": "The State-respondents shall also hold an enquiry to find out the police personnel involved in the custodial death of the deceased", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held custodial violence killed a Mairang man; Rs 3L + enquiry to fix responsibility.", "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": "2007-06-29", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864", "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": [ "court_quote_para", "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/496845/", "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-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }