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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0269",
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 "display_title": "The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi 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": "The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others",
 "case_number": "Regular First Appeal No. 3 of 2009",
 "citation": "AIR 2012 Guw 113",
 "judges": [
  "T. Nandakumar Singh",
  "N. Kotiswar Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-06-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1991-07-29",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "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 224",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 331"
 ],
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kakching Police Station"
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   "name": null,
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   "display": "Inspector, Kakching Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 35,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kakching man, age 35"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 720000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/431290/the-chief-secretary-government-of-manipur-and-others-appellant-hash-smt-naorem-ongbi-rashmani-de/",
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) dismissed the State of Manipur's regular first appeal, affirming a civil court decree awarding Rs 7,20,000 with 6% annual interest for the custodial death of a Kakching man Singh was arrested from his home on 29 July 1991 by an ASI-led police party and taken to Kakching Police Station, where he was tortured in the lockup, and his dead body was subsequently found floating in Kharungpat lake on 2 August 1991. The High Court rejected the police's fabricated claim that Singh had escaped from custody, holding that the State was vicariously liable for the wrongful and tortious acts of its police officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) dismissed the State of Manipur's regular first appeal, affirming a civil court decree awarding Rs 7,20,000 with 6% annual interest for the custodial death of a Kakching man Singh was arrested from his home on 29 July 1991 by an ASI-led police party and taken to Kakching Police Station, where he was tortured in the lockup, and his dead body was subsequently found floating in Kharungpat lake on 2 August 1991. The High Court rejected the police's fabricated claim that Singh had escaped from custody, holding that the State was vicariously liable for the wrongful and tortious acts of its police officers.",
 "court_quote": "The learned Trial Court after appreciation of the statements of D.Ws. held that the defendants had utterly failed to prove that (late) a Kakching man, escaped from police custody and further held that (late) a Kakching man died in the police custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Imphal Bench) dismissed State appeal, affirming Rs 7,20,000 tort damages plus 6% interest for custodial death of a Kakching man",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": "2012-06-05",
   "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 720,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR 2012 Guw 113",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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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   "corrections_applied": []
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