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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0055",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0918",
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 "display_title": "Maibang Resident vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Maibang Resident vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Dima Hasao",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Maibang",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Assam Police firing party, Maibang railway station",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Maibang Resident vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors",
 "case_number": "WP(C)/652/2018",
 "citation": "2026:GAU-AS:12436",
 "judges": [
  "Kalyan Rai Surana",
  "N. Unni Krishnan Nair"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-08-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2018-01-25",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "category": "Protest policing",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": true,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 0,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maibang resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 5,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157052802/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-police-firing-maibang-protest-violated-victims-fundamental-rights-court-award-12-lakh-compensation-549680",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866"
 ],
 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court Division Bench held that Assam Police firing on protesters at Maibang railway station on 25 January 2018 violated the victims' fundamental rights, awarding Rs. 3 lakh each to the families of the two deceased and Rs. 2 lakh each to three seriously injured persons (Rs. 12 lakh total), payable within three months. The Court accepted that protesters had turned violent and pelted stones, but found police fired from the railway platform onto protesters on the tracks causing bullet injuries above the waist, showing lack of understanding of the situation. It held the doctrine of sovereign immunity does not apply to fundamental-rights violations and that the State, not individual personnel, would bear the exemplary public-law damages. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court Division Bench held that Assam Police firing on protesters at Maibang railway station on 25 January 2018 violated the victims' fundamental rights, awarding Rs. 3 lakh each to the families of the two deceased and Rs. 2 lakh each to three seriously injured persons (Rs. 12 lakh total), payable within three months. The Court accepted that protesters had turned violent and pelted stones, but found police fired from the railway platform onto protesters on the tracks causing bullet injuries above the waist, showing lack of understanding of the situation. It held the doctrine of sovereign immunity does not apply to fundamental-rights violations and that the State, not individual personnel, would bear the exemplary public-law damages.",
 "court_quote": "The nature of injuries, projected to have been suffered by the victims, would go to reveal that either on account of the lack of understanding of the situation and/ or being so distracted by the stone pelting incident occasioning in the matter, the firing incident had also resulted in the victims suffering bullet injuries, above their waist also. Accordingly, in view of the injuries sustained by the petitioners, a case of violation of their fundamental rights is found to have been made out.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: Maibang firing violated Art 21, Rs 12 lakh total compensation.",
 "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": "Protest policing",
   "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": "2026-08-26",
   "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 1,200,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2026:GAU-AS:12436",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "court_quote",
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-police-firing-maibang-protest-violated-victims-fundamental-rights-court-award-12-lakh-compensation-549680",
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   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": false,
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 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-010",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}