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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0266",
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 "display_title": "Heirangoithong Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Heirangoithong Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.",
 "state": "Manipur",
 "district": "Imphal West",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Heirangoithong (killing at Heinoupok-Sadokpam road)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Imphal West Commando, Manipur Police, with 32 Assam Rifles (joint operation)",
 "court": "Manipur High Court",
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 "case_title": "Heirangoithong Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 18 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "L.K. Mohapatra",
  "N. Kotiswar Singh"
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 "judgment_date": "2014-09-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "2008-12-23",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "display": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commando (joint operation with 32 Assam Rifles)"
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   "display": "Subedar, Manipur Police Commando"
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 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 38,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Heirangoithong man, age 38"
  }
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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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-18.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86008/ningombam-brojen-singh-vs-state-of-manipur/",
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86008/ningombam-brojen-singh-vs-the-state-of-manipur/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47609784/"
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 "summary": "On 23 December 2008, a Heirangoithong man, a 38-year-old unmarried Grade-IV High Court employee, was dragged from a tea shop at Heirangoithong and shot dead on the Heinoupok-Sadokpam road by a joint team of Manipur Police Commandos and 32 Assam Rifles, who branded him a PREPAK cadre with a planted pistol and grenade lever. The High Court accepted the District & Sessions Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding, based on eyewitness evidence, that the official encounter version was false. It allowed the brothers' writ petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation, shared equally by the State and 32 Assam Rifles. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 23 December 2008, a Heirangoithong man, a 38-year-old unmarried Grade-IV High Court employee, was dragged from a tea shop at Heirangoithong and shot dead on the Heinoupok-Sadokpam road by a joint team of Manipur Police Commandos and 32 Assam Rifles, who branded him a PREPAK cadre with a planted pistol and grenade lever. The High Court accepted the District & Sessions Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding, based on eyewitness evidence, that the official encounter version was false. It allowed the brothers' writ petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation, shared equally by the State and 32 Assam Rifles. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror.",
 "court_quote": "Relying on the above evidence of the witness corroborated by the affidavit of PW No. 4, learned District & Sessions Judge has rendered the above finding. We, therefore, find no justification to differ with the finding arrived at by the learned District & Sessions Judge, Manipur.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Joint commando-AR team held to have killed civilian in fake encounter; Rs 5L shared.",
 "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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   "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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 "institutional_response": [
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   "date": "2014-09-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Manipur High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 18 of 2009",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
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