{ "record_id": "CW-2010-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0268", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0525" ], "display_title": "Kakching Man vs State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kakching Man vs State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Kakching", "district_at_time": "Thoubal", "city_town": "Kakching", "police_station_or_unit": "Kakching Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "Kakching Man vs State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 16 of 2006", "citation": "(2010) 6 GLR 609", "judges": [ "Madan B. Lokur", "Ashok Potsangbam" ], "judgment_date": "2010-08-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "2006-01-01", "incident_year": 2006, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kakching 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/khsetrimayum-ghane-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://kanglaonline.in/2010/08/hc-tells-govt-to-pay-rs-5-lakh-to-kin-of-custodial-death-victim/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/pdf/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) held that a Kakching man died as a result of torture by police personnel of Kakching Police Station after being arrested in connection with his wife's death. Accepting the inquiry report of the District Judge, Manipur West, the Division Bench rejected police denials and confirmed custodial violence. The court awarded Rs 5,00,000 as compensation to be held in fixed deposits for the victim's two minor children until they attain 21 years of age. Additionally, the High Court directed the Director General of Police to conduct an in-house enquiry personally or through an officer not below DIG rank to initiate departmental action against the responsible police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) held that a Kakching man died as a result of torture by police personnel of Kakching Police Station after being arrested in connection with his wife's death. Accepting the inquiry report of the District Judge, Manipur West, the Division Bench rejected police denials and confirmed custodial violence. The court awarded Rs 5,00,000 as compensation to be held in fixed deposits for the victim's two minor children until they attain 21 years of age. Additionally, the High Court directed the Director General of Police to conduct an in-house enquiry personally or through an officer not below DIG rank to initiate departmental action against the responsible police personnel.", "court_quote": "It cannot be seriously disputed that a Kakching man was tortured to death by the local police, although this is denied.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Imphal Bench) held Kakching police tortured a Kakching man to death, awarding Rs 5,00,000 compensation and ordering departmental inquiry.", "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": "2010-08-23", "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": "(2010) 6 GLR 609", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/khsetrimayum-ghane-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://kanglaonline.in/2010/08/hc-tells-govt-to-pay-rs-5-lakh-to-kin-of-custodial-death-victim/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/pdf/", "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-16", "chunk-39" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }