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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0036",
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 "display_title": "Khoomtai Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Khoomtai Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Golaghat",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Khoomtai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon Police Station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Khoomtai Man vs State of Assam and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 25 of 2008",
 "citation": "(2009) 05 GAU CK 0013",
 "judges": [
  "Jasti Chelameswar",
  "Hrishikesh Roy"
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 "judgment_date": "2009-05-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "2007-05-12",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "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 302",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 201"
 ],
 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (In-charge)",
   "unit": "Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon PS, Golaghat",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.91,
   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (In-charge), Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon PS, Golaghat"
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   "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ)",
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    "key2_gpt:unclear"
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   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
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   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ), Golaghat"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent, District Jail",
   "unit": "Golaghat",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_gpt:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.23,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.9,
   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent, District Jail, Golaghat"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Khoomtai man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/416204/swagmoni-boraik-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/",
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held Assam Police and jail authorities responsible for the custodial death of a Khoomtai man, arrested on 12 May 2007 by Khoomtai outpost police though no FIR named him, and dead in Golaghat jail on 5 June 2007. The Court found all police records of his detention tampered with or fabricated, with arrest-related general diary entries made months after his death, and held the death in State custody was not natural. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 public-law damages to his mother, wife and minor son, recoverable from the officers, and directed registration of a criminal case under Sections 302/34 and 201 IPC. Shri [name withheld], from whom the court directed recovery of part of the Rs 3,00,000 compensation in equal proportion, is the Superintendent of the District Jail, Golaghat (prisons department), not a police officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held Assam Police and jail authorities responsible for the custodial death of a Khoomtai man, arrested on 12 May 2007 by Khoomtai outpost police though no FIR named him, and dead in Golaghat jail on 5 June 2007. The Court found all police records of his detention tampered with or fabricated, with arrest-related general diary entries made months after his death, and held the death in State custody was not natural. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 public-law damages to his mother, wife and minor son, recoverable from the officers, and directed registration of a criminal case under Sections 302/34 and 201 IPC.",
 "court_quote": "the death of a Khoomtai man, while in the custody of the State, does not appear to be a natural death and there is an utter failure on the part of the respondent officers of the State in protecting the life and liberty of deceased [name withheld].",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Custodial death with fabricated records; Rs 3L damages plus murder-case direction against ASI and jail staff.",
 "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": "2009-05-06",
   "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": "(2009) 05 GAU CK 0013",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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)",
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-023",
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