{ "record_id": "CW-2014-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0864", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shillong Man vs The State of Meghalaya and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Shillong Man vs The State of Meghalaya and Others", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "East Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shillong", "police_station_or_unit": "Traffic Branch, Madanriting Police Station, Shillong", "court": "Meghalaya High Court", "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shillong Man vs The State of Meghalaya and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 66/2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-03-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2011-09-09", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "UBC Constable No. 1760", "unit": "Traffic Branch, Madanriting Police Station, East Khasi Hills", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "UBC Constable No. 1760, Traffic Branch, Madanriting Police Station, East Khasi Hills" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shillong man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 40000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/40093995/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. Taxi driver [name withheld] was intercepted near Nongthymmai on 09.09.2011, taken to Madanriting Traffic Branch over an alleged traffic offence, and assaulted by UBC [name withheld] when he could produce only Rs. 170 of the demanded fine, suffering a bleeding lacerated injury to his left eye. A departmental proceeding had already found the constable guilty beyond any shred of doubt and imposed censure. The High Court held the assault an established infringement of the indefeasible right under Article 21 and awarded Rs. 40,000 as exemplary damages payable jointly or severally by the State, DGP and SP within 40 days. It directed recovery of Rs. 10,000 from the respondent constable salary after payment to the petitioner. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Taxi driver [name withheld] was intercepted near Nongthymmai on 09.09.2011, taken to Madanriting Traffic Branch over an alleged traffic offence, and assaulted by UBC [name withheld] when he could produce only Rs. 170 of the demanded fine, suffering a bleeding lacerated injury to his left eye. A departmental proceeding had already found the constable guilty beyond any shred of doubt and imposed censure. The High Court held the assault an established infringement of the indefeasible right under Article 21 and awarded Rs. 40,000 as exemplary damages payable jointly or severally by the State, DGP and SP within 40 days. It directed recovery of Rs. 10,000 from the respondent constable salary after payment to the petitioner.", "court_quote": "In the given case, this Court is of the considered view that the relief of monetary compensation, as exemplary damages for established infringement of the indefeasible right of the petitioner guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution is required to be granted to the petitioner as such remedy is available in public law and the purpose of public law is not only to civilize public power but also to assure the citizen that they live under a legal system which aims to protect their interests and preserve their rights.", "court_quote_para": "32", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Assault by traffic constable proved; Rs. 40,000 exemplary compensation with recovery from salary.", "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 torture", "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": "2014-03-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Meghalaya High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Meghalaya High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 40,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "WP(C) No. 66/2012", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/40093995/", "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-70" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-43-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }