{
 "record_id": "CW-2026-0092",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1377",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Cachar Man vs The State Of Assam And 17 Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Cachar Man vs The State Of Assam And 17 Ors",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Cachar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Katigorah Police Station; Kalain Patrol Post",
 "court": "The Gauhati High Court (High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh)",
 "court_as_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh)",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Cachar Man vs The State Of Assam And 17 Ors",
 "case_number": "WP(C)/4329/2015",
 "citation": "2026:GAU-AS:13808-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Kalyan Rai Surana",
  "Susmita Phukan Khaund"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-09-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2012-07-07",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "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": [
  "147/148/149/353/336/323",
  "448/325/506/354/302/34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "role": "involved; no personal liability imposed - State permitted to recover from officials found guilty in departmental proceedings",
   "unit": "Katigorah Police Station / Kalain Patrol Post",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Katigorah Police Station / Kalain Patrol Post"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Cachar man"
  }
 ],
 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/39934608/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court held that the arrest of the 60-year-old man picked up after midnight was illegal. The High Court held that the man had died while in illegal police custody after being taken to Kalain Patrol Post. The High Court directed the State to pay Rs.5,00,000 as palliative compensation to the petitioner for distribution among the heirs. The High Court left criminal liability arising from the related case to the trial court and allowed the State to recover from officials found at fault.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the arrest of the 60-year-old man picked up after midnight was illegal. The High Court held that the man had died while in illegal police custody after being taken to Kalain Patrol Post. The High Court directed the State to pay Rs.5,00,000 as palliative compensation to the petitioner for distribution among the heirs. The High Court left criminal liability arising from the related case to the trial court and allowed the State to recover from officials found at fault.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, the arrest of Md. [name withheld], since deceased, was illegal",
 "court_quote_para": "Para 11",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "The judgment is verified: Gauhati High Court (Surana & Phukan Khaund JJ.), WP(C)/4329/2015, decided 17.09.2026, Cachar district; illegal-arrest quote is verbatim at para 11; death-in-police-custody finding at paras 13/21; compensation Rs.5,00,000 confirmed. However, the officers field records role 'held_liable', which the judgment does not support: the Court did NOT hold any named officer liable (it expressly left criminal liability to the pending complaint case and only gave the State liberty to recover from officials found guilty in departmental proceedings). The rank/unit (Officer-in-Charge, Katigorah PS / Kalain Patrol Post) is accurate, but the role must be corrected.",
 "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 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": "2026-09-17",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "The Gauhati High Court (High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The The Gauhati High Court (High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh) recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "2026:GAU-AS:13808-DB",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/39934608/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "swarm-verify-cop-as-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-as-hc-0",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}