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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0032",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0027",
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  "CWC-0870",
  "CWC-1430"
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 "display_title": "Guwahati Man vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Guwahati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Guwahati Man vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors",
 "case_number": "WP(C)/2783/2021",
 "citation": "2023 SCC OnLine Gau 4244",
 "judges": [
  "Devashis Baruah"
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 "judgment_date": "2023-12-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2016-10-05",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Guwahati man"
  }
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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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/display-5watermark-1571986.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-orders-assam-police-pay-compensation-advocate-unjust-handcuffing-article-21-constitution-of-india-245139",
  "https://lawbeat.in/sites/default/files/2023-12/Handcuffing%20Adv-%20Gauhati%20HC.pdf",
  "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/gauhati-high-court-orders-police-pay-rs-5-lakh-compensation-advocate-handcuffing-without-just-cause",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2024/01/03/state-compensation-liability-advocate-handcuffing-just-cause-gauhati-hc-legal-news/",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/gauhati-high-court-orders-500000-compensation-for-unjust-handcuffing-of-advocate-by-assam-police-1511018",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/gau-hc-grants-compensation-for-handcuffing-511527.pdf"
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that the handcuffing and parading of advocate a Guwahati man, without just cause being shown, violated his human rights under Article 21 and demeaned his dignity to practise his profession. Called to Panbazar Police Station on 5 October 2016, he was detained, arrested in PS Case No. 435/2016, handcuffed for a hospital examination and paraded in iron fetters from the court to Central Jail Guwahati, in breach of the Supreme Court's guidelines. The Court noted that the Assam Human Rights Commission had closed his complaint only because the charged officer had died. Applying strict liability, the Court directed the authorities to pay him Rs 5,00,000 within two months and recommended amending the Assam Police Manual on handcuffing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that the handcuffing and parading of advocate a Guwahati man, without just cause being shown, violated his human rights under Article 21 and demeaned his dignity to practise his profession. Called to Panbazar Police Station on 5 October 2016, he was detained, arrested in PS Case No. 435/2016, handcuffed for a hospital examination and paraded in iron fetters from the court to Central Jail Guwahati, in breach of the Supreme Court's guidelines. The Court noted that the Assam Human Rights Commission had closed his complaint only because the charged officer had died. Applying strict liability, the Court directed the authorities to pay him Rs 5,00,000 within two months and recommended amending the Assam Police Manual on handcuffing.",
 "court_quote": "Be that as it may, the Petitioner is an Advocate and handcuffing the Petitioner and parading him by taking him to the Court and thereafter back to the jail with iron fetters that too without just cause being shown, not only violates the human rights of the Petitioner guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution but also demeans his dignity and prestige to carry out his profession of advocacy.",
 "court_quote_para": "29",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Unjust handcuffing/parading of advocate; Rs 5L verified from judgment PDF.",
 "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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 "allegations": [
  {
   "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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  {
   "date": "2023-12-20",
   "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": "2023 SCC OnLine Gau 4244",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2023-0055 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here."
  }
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   "url": "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/gauhati-high-court-orders-police-pay-rs-5-lakh-compensation-advocate-handcuffing-without-just-cause",
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