{ "state": "Assam", "slug": "assam", "count": 37, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/assam", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1970-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1105", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Assam and Another vs Assam Police Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-charge) and others", "display_title_redacted": "State of Assam and Another vs Assam Police Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-charge) and others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Barpeta", "district_at_time": "Kamrup", "city_town": "Sorbhog", "police_station_or_unit": "Sorbhog Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Assam and Another vs Assam Police Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-charge) and others", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 2210 of 1966", "citation": "AIR 1970 SC 1255; (1970) 1 SCC 709", "judges": [ "S. M. Sikri", "V. Bhargava", "C. A. Vaidialingam" ], "judgment_date": "1970-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1970, "incident_date": "1955-01-01", "incident_year": 1955, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act 1861 s.7" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-charge)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Sorbhog Police Station, Assam Police", "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": "Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-charge), Sorbhog Police Station, Assam Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/90927/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1970/march/the-state-of-assam-anr-vs-mahendra-kumar-das-ors-insc-69-18-march-1970-23" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 18 March 1970 allowed the State's appeal and restored the dismissal of Sub-Inspector, formerly in charge of Sorbhog police station in Assam. The Court found that the enquiry had proved neglect of reported cognizable offences, acquisition of unexplained assets, and concealment through a false 1957 asset declaration. It held that the enquiry officer was uninfluenced by Anti-Corruption Branch material collected behind the officer's back and that the punishing and appellate authorities had independently found him guilty on the evidence. The Assam High Court's quashing order was set aside with costs against the officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 18 March 1970 allowed the State's appeal and restored the dismissal of Sub-Inspector, formerly in charge of Sorbhog police station in Assam. The Court found that the enquiry had proved neglect of reported cognizable offences, acquisition of unexplained assets, and concealment through a false 1957 asset declaration. It held that the enquiry officer was uninfluenced by Anti-Corruption Branch material collected behind the officer's back and that the punishing and appellate authorities had independently found him guilty on the evidence. The Assam High Court's quashing order was set aside with costs against the officer.", "court_quote": "On receipt of the explanation, the Superintendent of Police, by his order dated December 3, 1958 rejected the explanation of the respondent, accepted the findings of the Enquiry Officer and holding that the charges had been proved beyond all reasonable doubt, dismissed the respondent from service with immediate effect.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored dismissal of Sorbhog SHO for neglected cognizable offences, unexplained assets and false asset declaration.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1970-03-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1970 SC 1255; (1970) 1 SCC 709", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/90927/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1970/march/the-state-of-assam-anr-vs-mahendra-kumar-das-ors-insc-69-18-march-1970-23", "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-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1996-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0015", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Hailakandi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hailakandi", "police_station_or_unit": "Office of the Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 209 of 1993", "citation": "1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290", "judges": [ "S.C. Sen", "A.M. Ahmadi" ], "judgment_date": "1996-05-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1993-03-09", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 129", "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12", "Constitution of India Art. 32" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Hailakandi, Assam", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi, Assam" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 35, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hailakandi man, age 35" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/350151/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; SP report + affidavit + apology recorded and rejected by the Court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; SP report + affidavit + apology recorded and rejected by the Court", "court_quote": "We hold him guilty of contempt under Article 129 of the Constitution read with Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. Having regard to the gravity of the case, we sentence the contemner [name withheld] to undergo simple imprisonment for a term of three months.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court convicted SP Hailakandi of criminal contempt for false report/affidavit covering up custodial death of undertrial a Hailakandi man; 3 months simple imprisonment.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1996-05-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/350151/", "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": [ "chunk-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1996-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0017", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bar Tapa Woman vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bar Tapa Woman vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Barpeta", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bar Tapa", "police_station_or_unit": "Bhabanipur Out Post, Barpeta", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bar Tapa Woman vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "1997 CriLJ 874", "judges": [ "J. N. Sarma" ], "judgment_date": "1996-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1995-06-03", "incident_year": 1995, "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", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Barpeta, Assam Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.4, "jev_p_culpable": 0.56, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Barpeta, Assam Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Barpeta, Assam Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.4, "jev_p_culpable": 0.58, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Barpeta, Assam Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (in charge, Bhabanipur OP)", "unit": "Bhabanipur OP, Barpeta", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.26, "jev_p_culpable": 0.59, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector (in charge, Bhabanipur OP), Bhabanipur OP, Barpeta" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Barpeta, Assam Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.41, "jev_p_culpable": 0.54, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Barpeta, Assam Police" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 27, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bar Tapa man, age 27" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1039850/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that a Bar Tapa man, though an admitted hardcore ULFA member, was killed by Assam Police personnel in a cold-blooded manner at Bar Tapa on 3 June 1995 rather than in genuine cross-firing. Agreeing with the Barpeta District Judge's enquiry, the court found no bona fide attempt to apprehend him alive though ample opportunity existed, with disproportionate retaliatory fire from 3 to 5 feet. It held the police wanted to eliminate him, shattering the rule of law. The court awarded Rs 1 lakh compensation to his mother for breach of Article 21, payable within three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that a Bar Tapa man, though an admitted hardcore ULFA member, was killed by Assam Police personnel in a cold-blooded manner at Bar Tapa on 3 June 1995 rather than in genuine cross-firing. Agreeing with the Barpeta District Judge's enquiry, the court found no bona fide attempt to apprehend him alive though ample opportunity existed, with disproportionate retaliatory fire from 3 to 5 feet. It held the police wanted to eliminate him, shattering the rule of law. The court awarded Rs 1 lakh compensation to his mother for breach of Article 21, payable within three months.", "court_quote": "there was no bona fide attempt to apprehend a Bar Tapa man but he was killed by the police personnels in a cold blooded manner.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC holds police shot alleged ULFA man in cold blood at Bar Tapa; Rs 1 lakh to mother.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1996-06-12", "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 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1997 CriLJ 874", "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/1039850/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-025", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1999-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0019", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1452" ], "display_title": "Pengaree Man and Another vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Pengaree Man and Another vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Tinsukia", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pengaree", "police_station_or_unit": "Pengaree Police Outpost, Tinsukia", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pengaree Man and Another vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 2163 of 1996", "citation": "(2000) 2 GLT 504", "judges": [ "M. Sharma" ], "judgment_date": "1999-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1996-02-15", "incident_year": 1996, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 19, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Pengaree man, age 19" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaa9fb607dba3c8ce3eb29", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427835/moheela-moran-and-another-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/" ], "summary": "On 15 February 1996, 19-year-old student a Pengaree man was caught by two constables while awaiting conveyance, beaten, and taken to Pengaree outpost; on 16 February his family found his body in the lock-up with blood from the nose and bruises, while police claimed he hanged himself. The hale-and-hearty boy with no criminal background died in custody and police buried the body in haste, denying the family rites. The court held police personnel could not escape responsibility for the custodial death and directed the State to pay Rs.2,00,000 compensation to the widowed mother through the Deputy Commissioner, Tinsukia. Full text verified via the courtkutchehry mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 15 February 1996, 19-year-old student a Pengaree man was caught by two constables while awaiting conveyance, beaten, and taken to Pengaree outpost; on 16 February his family found his body in the lock-up with blood from the nose and bruises, while police claimed he hanged himself. The hale-and-hearty boy with no criminal background died in custody and police buried the body in haste, denying the family rites. The court held police personnel could not escape responsibility for the custodial death and directed the State to pay Rs.2,00,000 compensation to the widowed mother through the Deputy Commissioner, Tinsukia. Full text verified via the courtkutchehry mirror.", "court_quote": "Taking into consideration of the entire facts and circumstances of the case, the police personnel cannot escape the responsibilities of custodial death of the deceased at Pengaree Police Out Post.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Full judgment verified via mirror; Rs 2L to mother for custodial death of 19-year-old.", "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": "1999-02-04", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2000) 2 GLT 504", "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://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaa9fb607dba3c8ce3eb29", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427835/moheela-moran-and-another-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/", "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-01", "chunk-52", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1999-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0035", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Guwahati Man vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan", "district_at_time": "Kamrup", "city_town": "Guwahati", "police_station_or_unit": "Noonmati Police Station, Guwahati", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Guwahati Man vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 1600 of 1995", "citation": "(1999) 05 GAU CK 0039", "judges": [ "J. N. Sarma" ], "judgment_date": "1999-05-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1995-01-02", "incident_year": 1995, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Noonmati Police Station, Guwahati", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.33, "jev_p_culpable": 0.85, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Noonmati Police Station, Guwahati" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police (City)", "unit": "Guwahati City", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.13, "jev_p_culpable": 0.9, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police (City), Guwahati City" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 25, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Guwahati man, age 25" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427564/subhangsu-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held Noonmati police guilty of torturing 25-year-old deaf-mute, mentally retarded a Guwahati man in the lock-up on 2 January 1995. The Court accepted the Additional District Judge's enquiry finding that the boy, picked up on false charges, was beaten through the night sustaining fractures in both legs, denied food and water, and that OC had knowledge while SP (City) [name withheld] took no action on the complaint. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation (Rs 75,000 State, Rs 25,000 from the two officers' salaries) and directed a criminal case against the OC and disciplinary action against both officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held Noonmati police guilty of torturing 25-year-old deaf-mute, mentally retarded a Guwahati man in the lock-up on 2 January 1995. The Court accepted the Additional District Judge's enquiry finding that the boy, picked up on false charges, was beaten through the night sustaining fractures in both legs, denied food and water, and that OC had knowledge while SP (City) [name withheld] took no action on the complaint. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation (Rs 75,000 State, Rs 25,000 from the two officers' salaries) and directed a criminal case against the OC and disciplinary action against both officers.", "court_quote": "That on 2.1.95 a Guwahati man, a physically handicapped and mentally retarded person was tortured at Noonmati P.S. by police personnel causing fractural injuries in his both legs.", "court_quote_para": "para 2 (enquiry finding (i) adopted by court)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial torture of disabled youth proved; Rs 1L compensation plus prosecution/disciplinary directions.", "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": "1999-05-11", "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 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1999) 05 GAU CK 0039", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427564/subhangsu-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-022", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0029", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1454" ], "display_title": "Gopal Ch. Morigaon Man and Another v. State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Gopal Ch. Morigaon Man and Another v. State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Morigaon", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Morigaon", "police_station_or_unit": "Morigaon Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gopal Ch. Morigaon Man and Another v. State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule Nos. 3809 and 4032 of 1994", "citation": "(2000) 1 GLT 643", "judges": [ "D.N. Chowdhury" ], "judgment_date": "2000-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1994-08-06", "incident_year": 1994, "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", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Nakhyatra Bora", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Assam Police, Morigaon", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.63, "jev_p_culpable": 0.64, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Nakhyatra Bora", "display": "Nakhyatra Bora (Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 24, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Morigaon man, age 24" }, { "name": null, "age": 40, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Morigaon man, age 40" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 530000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/419319/gopal-ch-sarmah-and-another-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaab5a607dba3c8ce400c3", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/419319/gopal-ch-sarmah-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. College student a Morigaon man (24) was picked up from his Morigaon home on 6 August 1994 by a team including SI Nakhyatra Bora with SULFA members and CRPF, seen in the Morigaon lockup, then shot dead at point-blank range in a staged encounter at Mayengia village. Separately, office assistant a Morigaon man died of custodial torture injuries including a fractured femur, which police falsely ascribed to a fall. Accepting District Judge inquiry reports and medical evidence, the Gauhati High Court held both men died in police custody in defiance of the law of the land and rejected the encounter and accidental-fall versions. It awarded Rs.2,50,000 plus Rs.15,000 costs to each family, payable within six months, leaving the State free to proceed against and recover from the erring officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "College student a Morigaon man (24) was picked up from his Morigaon home on 6 August 1994 by a team including SI Nakhyatra Bora with SULFA members and CRPF, seen in the Morigaon lockup, then shot dead at point-blank range in a staged encounter at Mayengia village. Separately, office assistant a Morigaon man died of custodial torture injuries including a fractured femur, which police falsely ascribed to a fall. Accepting District Judge inquiry reports and medical evidence, the Gauhati High Court held both men died in police custody in defiance of the law of the land and rejected the encounter and accidental-fall versions. It awarded Rs.2,50,000 plus Rs.15,000 costs to each family, payable within six months, leaving the State free to proceed against and recover from the erring officers.", "court_quote": "Both of them died in Police custody in defiance of the law of the land. In both the cases there is unconstitutional deprivation of personal liberty and life.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held both men died in police custody; Rs.2.5L + costs to each family confirmed in text.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2000-02-17", "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 530,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2000) 1 GLT 643", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/419319/gopal-ch-sarmah-and-another-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaab5a607dba3c8ce400c3", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/419319/gopal-ch-sarmah-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "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-27", "chunk-41" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-014", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0018", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Darrang", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mangaldoi", "police_station_or_unit": "Mangaldoi Police Station (arrest by Khairabari Police Station party)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 1333 of 1995", "citation": "2002 ACJ 735", "judges": [ "Ranjan Gogoi" ], "judgment_date": "2001-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1994-12-04", "incident_year": 1994, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 25, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mangaldoi man, age 25" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/550907/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/" ], "summary": "The High Court held that 25-year-old [name withheld], arrested in a TADA case by a Khairabari PS party in the early hours of 4 December 1994, was assaulted and tortured to death by police while in custody at Mangaldoi Police Station the same night. Relying on the Darrang District Judge enquiry, including eyewitness co-detenues, the Court rejected the police story that the handcuffed detenu fell while fleeing. The Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to his mother and directed the CBI to register an FIR and investigate; the Division Bench dismissed the State appeal in 2006 with Rs 10,000 costs, noting the State had already paid the compensation.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that 25-year-old [name withheld], arrested in a TADA case by a Khairabari PS party in the early hours of 4 December 1994, was assaulted and tortured to death by police while in custody at Mangaldoi Police Station the same night. Relying on the Darrang District Judge enquiry, including eyewitness co-detenues, the Court rejected the police story that the handcuffed detenu fell while fleeing. The Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to his mother and directed the CBI to register an FIR and investigate; the Division Bench dismissed the State appeal in 2006 with Rs 10,000 costs, noting the State had already paid the compensation.", "court_quote": "The statements of P.Ws. 6,7,11 and 12 who were present with the deceased while in police custody establishes the fact that the deceased was assaulted and tortured by police while in their custody.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single Judge held [name withheld] tortured to death in Mangaldoi PS custody, awarded Rs 2 lakh and ordered CBI FIR; State appeal dismissed with Rs 10,000 costs.", "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": "2001-04-26", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2002 ACJ 735", "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/550907/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0861", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati Man and Others vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati Man and Others vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan", "district_at_time": "Kamrup", "city_town": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati", "police_station_or_unit": "Dispur Police Station (escort party)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati Man and Others vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "WP (C) No. 4567 of 1999", "citation": "(2003) 1 GLR 659", "judges": [ "D. Biswas" ], "judgment_date": "2001-09-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1998-11-27", "incident_year": 1998, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Assam Police (Dispur PS case party)", "role": "named_only", "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": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Assam Police (Dispur PS case party)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable and armed personnel", "unit": "Assam Police (escort party)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable and armed personnel, Assam Police (escort party)" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1837649/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/418227/enu-begum-and-others-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court disposed of the writ petition of the wife and children of a Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man, arrested on 27.11.1998 in a Dispur dacoity case and shot dead the same day by his police escort near Pachim Boragaon. Adopting the District Judge (Kamrup) enquiry report, the court found the handcuffed detenu was shot in the back of the chest though the escort could have fired at his legs. It held the force was in excess of necessity and the police negligent and guilty of misconduct in causing a custodial death. Applying D.K. Basu and Nilabati Behera, the court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed action against the defaulting personnel plus thorough criminal investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court disposed of the writ petition of the wife and children of a Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man, arrested on 27.11.1998 in a Dispur dacoity case and shot dead the same day by his police escort near Pachim Boragaon. Adopting the District Judge (Kamrup) enquiry report, the court found the handcuffed detenu was shot in the back of the chest though the escort could have fired at his legs. It held the force was in excess of necessity and the police negligent and guilty of misconduct in causing a custodial death. Applying D.K. Basu and Nilabati Behera, the court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation within three months and directed action against the defaulting personnel plus thorough criminal investigation.", "court_quote": "The force applied by the police has been definitely in excess of what was necessary. Therefore, they were negligent and guilty of misconduct in causing the death of a man in custody.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: Rs 2L compensation; handcuffed detenu shot in back; WP(C) 4567/1999.", "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": "2001-09-10", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2003) 1 GLR 659", "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/1837649/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/418227/enu-begum-and-others-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/", "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-69" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-41-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0667", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Guwahati Man v. State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man v. State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan", "district_at_time": "Kamrup", "city_town": "Guwahati", "police_station_or_unit": "Assam Police Armed Branch (Doordarshan Kendra duty party, Guwahati)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Guwahati Man v. State of Assam and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 2003 Gau 101", "judges": [ "D. Biswas" ], "judgment_date": "2002-09-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1997-10-24", "incident_year": 1997, "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", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "Arms Act s.27(3)", "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Branch Constable", "unit": "Assam Police, Guwahati (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)", "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": "Armed Branch Constable, Assam Police, Guwahati (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Unknown", "unit": "Assam Police (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)", "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": "Unknown, Assam Police (Doordarshan Kendra duty party)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 29, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Guwahati man, age 29" } ], "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/100542/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/jagat-dhar-sharma-vs-state-of-assam-and-ors-on-3-september-2002", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/420494/jagat-dhar-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Justice D. Biswas) awarded Rs 5 lakh to 65-year-old Jagat Dhar Sharma for the admitted on-duty gunshot killing of his 29-year-old engineer son [name withheld] on R.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati, on 24 October 1997. The Court found that armed constable, after quarrelling with a tea-stall keeper, fired aiming at the keeper in a crowded street with full knowledge of likely fatal injury to the public, and the bullet struck bystander a Guwahati man instead. Holding the State vicariously liable for this grave Article 21 violation, the Court ordered the languishing investigation completed within three months and recovery of the award from Deka and the duty-party members who failed to restrain him. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Justice D. Biswas) awarded Rs 5 lakh to 65-year-old Jagat Dhar Sharma for the admitted on-duty gunshot killing of his 29-year-old engineer son [name withheld] on R.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati, on 24 October 1997. The Court found that armed constable, after quarrelling with a tea-stall keeper, fired aiming at the keeper in a crowded street with full knowledge of likely fatal injury to the public, and the bullet struck bystander a Guwahati man instead. Holding the State vicariously liable for this grave Article 21 violation, the Court ordered the languishing investigation completed within three months and recovery of the award from Deka and the duty-party members who failed to restrain him.", "court_quote": "It is an admitted fact that a Guwahati man was killed by gunshot fired by ABC/264 Shri [name withheld] on duty. The gunshot was fired in a crowded place with the full knowledge that he was likely by such act to cause fatal injuries to the members of the public.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC judgment corroborated on legalindia/sooperkanoon/courtkutchehry; Rs 5L award, [name withheld] firing admitted.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2002-09-03", "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": "AIR 2003 Gau 101", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/100542/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/jagat-dhar-sharma-vs-state-of-assam-and-ors-on-3-september-2002", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/420494/jagat-dhar-sharma-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "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-53" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-039", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0022", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mathurapur Man vs State Of Assam And Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mathurapur Man vs State Of Assam And Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Charaideo", "district_at_time": "Sivasagar", "city_town": "Mathurapur", "police_station_or_unit": "Mathurapur Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mathurapur Man vs State Of Assam And Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2003 CRI. L. J. 4197, (2003) 2 GLR 395", "judges": [ "B.B. Jain" ], "judgment_date": "2003-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1999-10-02", "incident_year": 1999, "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": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mathurapur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 125000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1958724/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court allowed a writ petition seeking compensation for the custodial death of a Mathurapur man, who died in District Jail, Sivasagar on October 21, 1999, after arrest by Mathurapur police. The Court rejected the District Judge's inquiry finding that had burdened the petitioner to prove physical torture, noting that the police failed to comply with D.K. Basu arrest intimation directives and offered no records explaining his sudden death or enlarged liver. Holding that the cumulative omissions led to a prudent inference of foul play while in custody, the Court directed the State respondents to pay Rs. 1,25,000 in compensation to the deceased mother. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court allowed a writ petition seeking compensation for the custodial death of a Mathurapur man, who died in District Jail, Sivasagar on October 21, 1999, after arrest by Mathurapur police. The Court rejected the District Judge's inquiry finding that had burdened the petitioner to prove physical torture, noting that the police failed to comply with D.K. Basu arrest intimation directives and offered no records explaining his sudden death or enlarged liver. Holding that the cumulative omissions led to a prudent inference of foul play while in custody, the Court directed the State respondents to pay Rs. 1,25,000 in compensation to the deceased mother.", "court_quote": "The cumulative effect of all these omissions on the part of the Police/Jail authority would lead a prudent man to infer that due to some foul play committed on the deceased [name withheld], sudden death happened while in custody and as such the respondents cannot absolve their responsibilities.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati High Court found foul play in custodial death and awarded compensation of Rs. 1,25,000 to deceased mother.", "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": "2003-03-06", "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 125,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2003 CRI. L. J. 4197, (2003) 2 GLR 395", "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/1958724/", "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-02" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0917", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhupdhara Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Dhupdhara Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Goalpara", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhupdhara", "police_station_or_unit": "Dhupdhara Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dhupdhara Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 131 of 1998", "citation": "(2003) CriLJ 4536; (2003) 2 GLR 386", "judges": [ "B.B. Deb" ], "judgment_date": "2003-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1997-09-08", "incident_year": 1997, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Dhupdhara man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/583806/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/135335/jahira-nessa-bewa-vs-state-assam-ors" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (B.B. Deb, J.) allowed the writ petition arising from the death of a Dhupdhara man, arrested on 8 September 1997 and found hanged inside the Dhupdhara police lock-up the same afternoon. The Court rejected the torture-murder allegation on the post-mortem evidence but held the death was a suicide enabled by gross and reckless negligence of the lock-up staff, noting a blanket had no business inside the lock-up in September and the iron-barred lock-up was visible from the duty point. It awarded Rs. 50,000 compensation to the widow, payable within 45 days, and left the State free to enquire into and proceed against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (B.B. Deb, J.) allowed the writ petition arising from the death of a Dhupdhara man, arrested on 8 September 1997 and found hanged inside the Dhupdhara police lock-up the same afternoon. The Court rejected the torture-murder allegation on the post-mortem evidence but held the death was a suicide enabled by gross and reckless negligence of the lock-up staff, noting a blanket had no business inside the lock-up in September and the iron-barred lock-up was visible from the duty point. It awarded Rs. 50,000 compensation to the widow, payable within 45 days, and left the State free to enquire into and proceed against the erring officials.", "court_quote": "The deceased committed suicide while in custody and that was due to gross negligence of the Police personnel of that PS and thus, the Police authority cannot totally absolve its liability.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: custodial suicide due to police negligence, Rs 50,000 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": "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": "2003-03-06", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2003) CriLJ 4536; (2003) 2 GLR 386", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/583806/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/135335/jahira-nessa-bewa-vs-state-assam-ors", "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": [ "chunk-15" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0031", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Silchar Police Daroga (In-charge) and others vs State of Assam", "display_title_redacted": "Silchar Police Daroga (In-charge) and others vs State of Assam", "state": "Assam", "district": "Cachar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Silchar", "police_station_or_unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Silchar Police Daroga (In-charge) and others vs State of Assam", "case_number": "Crl. Appeal Nos. 272/01, 274/01 and 292/01", "citation": "(2004) 3 GLR 77", "judges": [ "D. Biswas", "Amitava Roy" ], "judgment_date": "2003-11-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1996-08-24", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Daroga (In-charge)", "unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.31, "jev_p_culpable": 0.82, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Daroga (In-charge), Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.24, "jev_p_culpable": 0.84, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_union:unclear", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.22, "jev_p_culpable": 0.89, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.16, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Silchar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 6, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/649424/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court sustained the convictions of four Malugram Town Outpost policemen for torturing detainee a Silchar man to death over 24-26 August 1996. Arrested on the night of 24 August, he was repeatedly taken from the lock-up and assaulted at the appellants' will, sustaining 41 injuries to which the Court attributed his death. The Court ruled out the intent for murder and altered the two Section 302 convictions to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34, sentencing [name withheld] and [name withheld] to six years' rigorous imprisonment with Rs 25,000 fine each. It maintained the four-year sentences of constables and [name withheld] and cancelled their bail bonds. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court sustained the convictions of four Malugram Town Outpost policemen for torturing detainee a Silchar man to death over 24-26 August 1996. Arrested on the night of 24 August, he was repeatedly taken from the lock-up and assaulted at the appellants' will, sustaining 41 injuries to which the Court attributed his death. The Court ruled out the intent for murder and altered the two Section 302 convictions to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34, sentencing [name withheld] and [name withheld] to six years' rigorous imprisonment with Rs 25,000 fine each. It maintained the four-year sentences of constables and [name withheld] and cancelled their bail bonds.", "court_quote": "Death was the cumulative effect of the 41 injuries found all over his body.", "court_quote_para": "58", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "All four convictions sustained (two altered 302 to 304-II); 6-yr max verified.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Gauhati High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gauhati High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2004) 3 GLR 77", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2003-11-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2004) 3 GLR 77", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/649424/", "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": [ "chunk-27" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-018", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0453", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi", "display_title_redacted": "State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi", "state": "Assam", "district": "Darrang", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mangaldoi", "police_station_or_unit": "Mangaldoi Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2007) 2 GLR 217", "judges": [ "B.P. Katakey" ], "judgment_date": "2006-06-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1994-12-04", "incident_year": 1994, "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": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 201", "IPC 120B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Mangaldoi Police Station, Darrang", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Mangaldoi Police Station, Darrang" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Khoirabari Police Station, Darrang", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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": "Officer-in-Charge, Khoirabari Police Station, Darrang" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 25, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mangaldoi man, age 25" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/550907/" ], "summary": "remove 'after the Supreme Court's remand' (no SC mention in either judgment); remove or source 'ULFA' (TADA context only, SJ mentions TADA once re co-accused; 'ULFA' nowhere); state police version (escape bid, fall on handcuff — DB paras 8, 11, 15). [name withheld] is named only as an accused in CBI FIR RC-6/S/2001 registered on the Single Judge's direction; the court recorded no personal finding and expressly declined to record guilt against any person while investigation was pending. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove 'after the Supreme Court's remand' (no SC mention in either judgment); remove or source 'ULFA' (TADA context only, SJ mentions TADA once re co-accused; 'ULFA' nowhere); state police version (escape bid, fall on handcuff — DB paras 8, 11, 15)", "court_quote": "[name withheld] was brutally tortured by the police personnel while he was in custody.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; custodial torture-death, Rs.2L paid + CBI murder probe sustained.", "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": "2006-06-16", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 2 GLR 217", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/550907/", "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-39" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-022", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0021", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Diphu Boy vs State of Assam and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Diphu Boy vs State of Assam and Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Karbi Anglong", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Diphu", "police_station_or_unit": "Diphu Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Diphu Boy vs State of Assam and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2006) 3 GLR 810", "judges": [ "B. Sudershan Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "2006-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2004-03-21", "incident_year": 2004, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge (respondent No. 3)", "unit": "Diphu Police Station, Karbi Anglong", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.35, "jev_p_culpable": 0.77, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge (respondent No. 3), Diphu Police Station, Karbi Anglong" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 14, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Diphu boy, age 14", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 14, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 14-year-old boy" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166698/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1903007/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. fix duplicated phrase '14-year-old Class IX student a 14-year-old boy'; state police version (accidental fall from bamboo bridge — paras 13, 16). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "fix duplicated phrase '14-year-old Class IX student a 14-year-old boy'; state police version (accidental fall from bamboo bridge — paras 13, 16)", "court_quote": "It is a clear case where only conclusion that could eventually be drawn is that the petitioner's brother was taken into custody by the 3rd respondent and other police personnel in connection with the investigation into the Diphu P.S. Case No. 5/04 registered against him and has been subjected to brutal torture in custody resulting in his death while in custody.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held 14-year-old Bhupen Singh Terang tortured to death in Diphu PS custody; Rs 3 lakh (recoverable from OC salary), criminal case + CID probe + disciplinary action ordered.", "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": "2006-07-31", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2006) 3 GLR 810", "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_para", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166698/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1903007/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0026", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bokajan Woman vs State of Assam and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bokajan Woman vs State of Assam and Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Karbi Anglong", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokajan", "police_station_or_unit": "Bokajan Police Station area (Kalapahar forest operation party)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bokajan Woman vs State of Assam and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2007 CriLJ 1017", "judges": [ "B. S. Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "2006-08-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2005-04-20", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Karbi Anglong", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Additional Superintendent of Police, Karbi Anglong" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Bokajan PS area", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Bokajan PS area" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 30, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bokajan woman, age 30" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1684953/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that a police party led by Additional SP picked up a Bokajan woman in an injured condition during an anti-insurgency operation in the Kalapahar forest on 20 April 2005, in front of villagers, and never produced her before any Magistrate. The Court raised the presumption that she had been liquidated in custody and described the violation of Article 21 as patent, incontrovertible and conscience-shocking. It awarded Rs 2,00,000 in compensation, payable by the State but recoverable from the officers responsible, together with Rs 10,000 in costs. It further directed the Director General of Police to register a case within a week and entrust the investigation to the CBI. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that a police party led by Additional SP picked up a Bokajan woman in an injured condition during an anti-insurgency operation in the Kalapahar forest on 20 April 2005, in front of villagers, and never produced her before any Magistrate. The Court raised the presumption that she had been liquidated in custody and described the violation of Article 21 as patent, incontrovertible and conscience-shocking. It awarded Rs 2,00,000 in compensation, payable by the State but recoverable from the officers responsible, together with Rs 10,000 in costs. It further directed the Director General of Police to register a case within a week and entrust the investigation to the CBI.", "court_quote": "We accordingly award compensation of Rs. 2,00,000 (rupees two lakh) payable by the State to be recovered from the officers responsible for causing disappearance of Smti. A Bokajan woman @ a Bokajan woman for which purposes the State may hold an appropriate enquiry into the matter.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Disappearance in custody presumed killing; Rs 2L + costs verified.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2006-08-21", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2007 CriLJ 1017", "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1684953/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/", "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": [ "chunk-27" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0668", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bokajan Woman v. State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bokajan Woman v. State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Karbi Anglong", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokajan", "police_station_or_unit": "Assam Police (Bokajan/Kalapahar operation party)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bokajan Woman v. State of Assam and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2007) 1 GLR 453", "judges": [ "B. Sudershan Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "2006-08-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2005-04-20", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Assam Police, Bokajan operation", "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": "Additional Superintendent of Police, Assam Police, Bokajan operation" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 30, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bokajan woman, age 30" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. add police version (denied picking her up; encounter with ULFA camp, blood trails, no arrest — paras 7-10); keep: habeas petition, 20.4.2005 Kalapahar operation, never produced, Rs 2L to parents via RG in 2 months + recovery after enquiry, DGP case+CBI in 1 week, compliance in 3 weeks, Rs 10,000 costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "add police version (denied picking her up; encounter with ULFA camp, blood trails, no arrest — paras 7-10); keep: habeas petition, 20.4.2005 Kalapahar operation, never produced, Rs 2L to parents via RG in 2 months + recovery after enquiry, DGP case+CBI in 1 week, compliance in 3 weeks, Rs 10,000 costs", "court_quote": "On the facts and in the circumstances we hold that the violation of Article 21 in the instant case is patent and incontrovertible and it is of a magnitude that shocks the conscience of the court.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC habeas judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 2L + CBI probe for disappearance matches.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2006-08-29", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 1 GLR 453", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/", "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-53" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-080", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0020", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rowta Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Rowta Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Udalguri", "district_at_time": "Darrang", "city_town": "Rowta", "police_station_or_unit": "Rowta Outpost, Udalguri Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rowta Man vs State of Assam and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2008 (1) GLT 338", "judges": [ "J. Chelameswar", "B.P. Katakey" ], "judgment_date": "2007-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2000-12-20", "incident_year": 2000, "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": [ "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge, respondent No. 6)", "unit": "Rowta Out Post, Udalguri PS", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge, respondent No. 6), Rowta Out Post, Udalguri PS" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rowta man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1479024/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. remove 'Sub-Inspector' naming unless sourced; state police version (para 8). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove 'Sub-Inspector' naming unless sourced; state police version (para 8)", "court_quote": "it is conclusively proved that a Rowta man died in police custody due to the torture.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench held SI (OC Rowta Out Post) responsible for custodial torture-death of a Rowta man; Rs 3 lakh total (Rs 2.25 lakh balance after AHRC Rs 75,000).", "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": "2007-12-19", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2008 (1) GLT 338", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1479024/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0036", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Khoomtai Man vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Khoomtai Man vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Golaghat", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Khoomtai", "police_station_or_unit": "Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Khoomtai Man vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 25 of 2008", "citation": "(2009) 05 GAU CK 0013", "judges": [ "Jasti Chelameswar", "Hrishikesh Roy" ], "judgment_date": "2009-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "2007-05-12", "incident_year": 2007, "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": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 34", "IPC 201" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (In-charge)", "unit": "Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon PS, Golaghat", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (In-charge), Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon PS, Golaghat" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ)", "unit": "Golaghat", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ), Golaghat" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent, District Jail", "unit": "Golaghat", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.23, "jev_p_culpable": 0.9, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent, District Jail, Golaghat" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Khoomtai man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/416204/swagmoni-boraik-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held Assam Police and jail authorities responsible for the custodial death of a Khoomtai man, arrested on 12 May 2007 by Khoomtai outpost police though no FIR named him, and dead in Golaghat jail on 5 June 2007. The Court found all police records of his detention tampered with or fabricated, with arrest-related general diary entries made months after his death, and held the death in State custody was not natural. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 public-law damages to his mother, wife and minor son, recoverable from the officers, and directed registration of a criminal case under Sections 302/34 and 201 IPC. Shri [name withheld], from whom the court directed recovery of part of the Rs 3,00,000 compensation in equal proportion, is the Superintendent of the District Jail, Golaghat (prisons department), not a police officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held Assam Police and jail authorities responsible for the custodial death of a Khoomtai man, arrested on 12 May 2007 by Khoomtai outpost police though no FIR named him, and dead in Golaghat jail on 5 June 2007. The Court found all police records of his detention tampered with or fabricated, with arrest-related general diary entries made months after his death, and held the death in State custody was not natural. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 public-law damages to his mother, wife and minor son, recoverable from the officers, and directed registration of a criminal case under Sections 302/34 and 201 IPC.", "court_quote": "the death of a Khoomtai man, while in the custody of the State, does not appear to be a natural death and there is an utter failure on the part of the respondent officers of the State in protecting the life and liberty of deceased [name withheld].", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial death with fabricated records; Rs 3L damages plus murder-case direction against ASI and jail staff.", "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": "2009-05-06", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2009) 05 GAU CK 0013", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/416204/swagmoni-boraik-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-023", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0552", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Khoirabari Man vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Khoirabari Man vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Darrang", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Khoirabari", "police_station_or_unit": "Khoirabari Police Station, Darrang", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Khoirabari Man vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2010) 4 GLT 506", "judges": [ "Hrishikesh Roy" ], "judgment_date": "2010-08-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "1995-01-19", "incident_year": 1995, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Khoirabari man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 250000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaac31607dba3c8ce411d4", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/416189/basanti-kalita-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. rewrite: continuous custody 16-19.1.95 with manipulated GD entries/PR bond (paras 8.3-8.6, 12, 14); post-mortem inconclusive so torture-death not established with certainty (para 15); State vicariously liable for failure to protect + D.K. Basu violations (paras 16-18); Rs 2,50,000 by 1.11.2010 (para 19); police version (release on PR bond, re-arrest near station, chest pain/faint — para 8.1) must be stated; delete paywall/confidence commentary. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "rewrite: continuous custody 16-19.1.95 with manipulated GD entries/PR bond (paras 8.3-8.6, 12, 14); post-mortem inconclusive so torture-death not established with certainty (para 15); State vicariously liable for failure to protect + D.K. Basu violations (paras 16-18); Rs 2,50,000 by 1.11.2010 (para 19); police version (release on PR bond, re-arrest near station, chest pain/faint — para 8.1) must be stated; delete paywall/confidence commentary", "court_quote": "Considering the fact that the deceased was employed as a teacher and was the sole bread earner of the family, I deem it appropriate to order for payment of compensation quantified at Rs. 2,50,000/- (Rupees two lakh fifty thousand only) to be paid by the State on or before 1.11.2010 to the Petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Operative part corroborated by 2 mirror snippets (full text paywalled); Rs 2.5L for custodial death.", "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": "2010-08-20", "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 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2010) 4 GLT 506", "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", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaac31607dba3c8ce411d4", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/416189/basanti-kalita-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "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": [ "chunk-52" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0030", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Darrang", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mangaldoi", "police_station_or_unit": "Mangaldoi Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 6426 of 2002", "citation": "(2012) 1 GLD 58", "judges": [ "Madan B. Lokur", "H. Baruah" ], "judgment_date": "2011-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1999-07-13", "incident_year": 1999, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Mangaldoi PS, Darrang", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Mangaldoi PS, Darrang" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Mangaldoi PS, Darrang", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no", "redteam:inquiry_witness_no_finding" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Mangaldoi PS, Darrang" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Mangaldoi PS, Darrang", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no", "redteam:inquiry_witness_no_finding" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Mangaldoi PS, Darrang" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (No. 1345)", "unit": "Mangaldoi PS, Darrang", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no", "redteam:inquiry_witness_no_finding" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (No. 1345), Mangaldoi PS, Darrang" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mangaldoi man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mangaldoi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/429007/musstt-anowara-begum-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b49520607dba348f0110e8" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of rickshaw puller a Mangaldoi man, who died after a Mangaldoi police party led by SI apprehended him and his brother at Gariapara on 13 July 1999. The police claimed a mob had manhandled the alleged dacoits, but villagers deposed that the police beat them with rifle butts, branches and kicks, and the post-mortem recorded nine injuries including a fractured rib and blood-filled thoracic cavity. Accepting the magisterial enquiry's conclusion that police beating after apprehension could not be ruled out, the Court held that no clean chit could be given to the personnel and saddled the State with compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of rickshaw puller a Mangaldoi man, who died after a Mangaldoi police party led by SI apprehended him and his brother at Gariapara on 13 July 1999. The police claimed a mob had manhandled the alleged dacoits, but villagers deposed that the police beat them with rifle butts, branches and kicks, and the post-mortem recorded nine injuries including a fractured rib and blood-filled thoracic cavity. Accepting the magisterial enquiry's conclusion that police beating after apprehension could not be ruled out, the Court held that no clean chit could be given to the personnel and saddled the State with compensation.", "court_quote": "the police beating after their apprehension cannot be ruled out and for that no clean chit can be recorded in their favour.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Post-apprehension police beating not ruled out; Rs 1.5L verified.", "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": "2011-07-29", "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 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2012) 1 GLD 58", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/429007/musstt-anowara-begum-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b49520607dba348f0110e8", "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": [ "chunk-27" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0919", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Smti Mandira Nandi vs [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "Smti Mandira Nandi vs [name withheld]", "state": "Assam", "district": "Sribhumi", "district_at_time": "Karimganj", "city_town": "Karimganj", "police_station_or_unit": "Karimganj Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Smti Mandira Nandi vs [name withheld]", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 41 of 2003", "citation": "2012 CRI. L. J. 2567; (2012) 2 Gau LT 576", "judges": [ "B.D. Agarwal" ], "judgment_date": "2012-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2000-06-20", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 323", "CrPC 357" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Karimganj, Assam Police", "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": "Superintendent of Police, Karimganj, Assam Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Karimganj man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81246444/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaabe6607dba3c8ce409e2", "https://ghconline.gov.in/JDMTMar12.pdf" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (B.D. Agarwal, J.) set aside the Magistrate's acquittal and convicted Karimganj SP under Section 323 IPC for the custodial beating of detenue a Karimganj man @ a Karimganj man on 20-21 June 2000. The Court held the trial court had discarded one-sided prosecution evidence on flimsy grounds despite corroboration by the co-detenue eyewitness and three government doctors, and found the SP had conspired to have the victim arrested in a second non-bailable FIR after he joined a demand for the SP's transfer. Taking a lenient view on sentence after 12 years, the Court imposed Rs. 1,000 fine plus Rs. 1,00,000 compensation to the injured under Section 357 CrPC, with six months' simple imprisonment in default of deposit within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (B.D. Agarwal, J.) set aside the Magistrate's acquittal and convicted Karimganj SP under Section 323 IPC for the custodial beating of detenue a Karimganj man @ a Karimganj man on 20-21 June 2000. The Court held the trial court had discarded one-sided prosecution evidence on flimsy grounds despite corroboration by the co-detenue eyewitness and three government doctors, and found the SP had conspired to have the victim arrested in a second non-bailable FIR after he joined a demand for the SP's transfer. Taking a lenient view on sentence after 12 years, the Court imposed Rs. 1,000 fine plus Rs. 1,00,000 compensation to the injured under Section 357 CrPC, with six months' simple imprisonment in default of deposit within two months.", "court_quote": "I hold that the complainant has adduced sufficient corroborative evidence to prove the allegation of causing simple hurt upon PW-3. Consequently, the impugned judgment is hereby set aside. The accused/opposite party is convicted under section 323 IPC.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: SP convicted u/s 323 IPC on reversal of acquittal; fine + Rs 1 lakh 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": "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": "2012-03-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2012 CRI. L. J. 2567; (2012) 2 Gau LT 576", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81246444/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaabe6607dba3c8ce409e2", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://ghconline.gov.in/JDMTMar12.pdf", "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": [ "chunk-15" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0028", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Baksa", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mushalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Mushalpur Out Post", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 2427 of 2008", "citation": "(2013) 1 GLT 610", "judges": [ "Amitava Roy", "Anima Hazarika" ], "judgment_date": "2012-11-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2007-10-25", "incident_year": 2007, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Mushalpur OP, Baksa", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.47, "jev_p_culpable": 0.54, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Mushalpur OP, Baksa" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Home Guard", "unit": "Mushalpur OP, Baksa", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.49, "jev_p_culpable": 0.64, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Home Guard, Mushalpur OP, Baksa" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mushalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415827/damayanti-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=602102168000&title=damayanti-das-vs-state-of-assam" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of head teacher a Mushalpur man, who died in custody at Mushalpur Out Post on 26 October 2007 after being detained the previous day for interrogation. While unconvinced of physical torture, the Court held the police grossly negligent: a Home Guard let the detainee carry a gamosa into the toilet, no arrest memo was prepared, the family was never informed, and the post-mortem was conducted without them. The Court found the detainee's right to reputation and the D.K. Basu safeguards under Articles 21 and 22(1) infringed without justifiable cause. The court found Home Guard grossly negligent, but he is a Home Guard volunteer under whose vigil the deceased was left at Mushalpur Police Out Post, not a member of the police force. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of head teacher a Mushalpur man, who died in custody at Mushalpur Out Post on 26 October 2007 after being detained the previous day for interrogation. While unconvinced of physical torture, the Court held the police grossly negligent: a Home Guard let the detainee carry a gamosa into the toilet, no arrest memo was prepared, the family was never informed, and the post-mortem was conducted without them. The Court found the detainee's right to reputation and the D.K. Basu safeguards under Articles 21 and 22(1) infringed without justifiable cause.", "court_quote": "it is admitted by the respondents that Sri [name withheld], Home Guard under whose vigil and control the deceased had been left at the Mushalpur Police Out Post had been grossly negligent in allowing him to carry a 'Gamosa' with him to the toilet", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial negligence (gamosa suicide); Rs 1.5L verified.", "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": "2012-11-09", "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 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2013) 1 GLT 610", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415827/damayanti-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=602102168000&title=damayanti-das-vs-state-of-assam", "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": [ "chunk-27" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1252", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Union of India and Others vs CISF Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Union of India and Others vs CISF Constable", "state": "Assam", "district": "Jorhat", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jorhat", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit, ONGC Jorhat", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Union of India and Others vs CISF Constable", "case_number": "Writ Appeal No. 763 of 2007", "citation": "(2013) ILR (MP) 542; (2013) 2 JLJ 15; (2013) LabIC 3453; (2013) 2 MPHT 393; (2013) 3 MPLJ 378; (2013) 02 MP CK 0114", "judges": [ "Sujoy Paul", "Sheel Nagu" ], "judgment_date": "2013-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2001-09-22", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "CISF Unit, ONGC Jorhat", "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": "Constable, CISF Unit, ONGC Jorhat" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/598914/union-of-india-and-others-vs-sukhbir-singh-bais/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. CISF Constable of the ONGC Jorhat unit faced three charges that on 22 September 2001, under the influence of liquor, he created a nuisance in the Jorhat mess abusing a head constable and constable, insulted two inspectors by throwing his cap, belt and shirt at them, and obstructed duty. A detailed departmental enquiry found the charges proved and he was dismissed from service on 15 January 2002, but a single judge set aside the dismissal and ordered reinstatement without back wages. The Division Bench held judicial review could not reappreciate the evidence, that off-duty conduct with a nexus to employment constitutes misconduct, and that dismissal was not harsh for a member of an armed force. The Court set aside the single judge's order and affirmed the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "CISF Constable of the ONGC Jorhat unit faced three charges that on 22 September 2001, under the influence of liquor, he created a nuisance in the Jorhat mess abusing a head constable and constable, insulted two inspectors by throwing his cap, belt and shirt at them, and obstructed duty. A detailed departmental enquiry found the charges proved and he was dismissed from service on 15 January 2002, but a single judge set aside the dismissal and ordered reinstatement without back wages. The Division Bench held judicial review could not reappreciate the evidence, that off-duty conduct with a nexus to employment constitutes misconduct, and that dismissal was not harsh for a member of an armed force. The Court set aside the single judge's order and affirmed the dismissal.", "court_quote": "It is accordingly set aside. The punishment inflicted by the employer is affirmed. Appeal is allowed.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; CISF constable dismissal for drunken misconduct affirmed (internal indiscipline, no civilian victim).", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2013-02-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2013) ILR (MP) 542; (2013) 2 JLJ 15; (2013) LabIC 3453; (2013) 2 MPHT 393; (2013) 3 MPLJ 378; (2013) 02 MP CK 0114", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/598914/union-of-india-and-others-vs-sukhbir-singh-bais/", "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-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1017", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Bongaigaon", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhaligaon", "police_station_or_unit": "F/116 Battalion, CRPF, Dhaligaon", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 906 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "I. A. Ansari", "Chakradhari Sharan Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2016-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2005-09-21", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "F/116 Battalion, CRPF", "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": "Constable, F/116 Battalion, CRPF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156786043/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a CRPF constable of F/116 Battalion at Dhaligaon, Assam, challenged his June 2006 dismissal for deserting camp twice for 14 and 84 days while undergoing a confinement punishment. The court found he had initially participated in the enquiry and then deliberately absented himself despite notices sent to his home address, so the ex parte conclusion of proceedings was proper. The court found no infirmity in the Single Bench order dismissing his writ petition. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a CRPF constable of F/116 Battalion at Dhaligaon, Assam, challenged his June 2006 dismissal for deserting camp twice for 14 and 84 days while undergoing a confinement punishment. The court found he had initially participated in the enquiry and then deliberately absented himself despite notices sent to his home address, so the ex parte conclusion of proceedings was proper. The court found no infirmity in the Single Bench order dismissing his writ petition. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "The punishment of dismissal from service cannot be said to be disproportionate to the charge framed against the appellant which came to be proved in a departmental enquiry.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed the LPA; dismissal of CRPF constable for desertion during confinement stands.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2016-06-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 906 of 2014", "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/156786043/", "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-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-018", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1023", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Assam", "district": "Dibrugarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Duliajan", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF, internal security duty, Oil Duliajan", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 4508 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rakesh Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2017-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2006-04-01", "incident_year": 2006, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "CISF (DM Battalion Mundali; internal security duty, Oil Duliajan)", "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": "Constable, CISF (DM Battalion Mundali; internal security duty, Oil Duliajan)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Duliajan resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/40897329/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=717102340100&Title=A-K-PANDEY-ALIAS-AJIT-KUMAR-PANDEY-Vs.-UNION-OF-INDIA-THROUGH-DIRECTOR-GENERAL" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], CISF Constable. 894340365 on internal security duty at Oil Duliajan, was charge-sheeted for abusing Head Constable on 01.04.2006 and threatening on the counting parade that he could use his service weapon and 100 rounds to kill him, against a record of one major and eleven minor punishments. The Commandant dismissed him on 13.02.2007 after a full departmental proceeding; the DIG confirmed the dismissal on 29.05.2007 and the IG rejected his revision on 23.05.2008. He challenged the orders before the Patna High Court under Article 226. The Court found full procedure had been followed with the enquiry report supplied, the charges stood admitted leaving no scope to differ on proof, and no illegality in decision-making was shown. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], CISF Constable. 894340365 on internal security duty at Oil Duliajan, was charge-sheeted for abusing Head Constable on 01.04.2006 and threatening on the counting parade that he could use his service weapon and 100 rounds to kill him, against a record of one major and eleven minor punishments. The Commandant dismissed him on 13.02.2007 after a full departmental proceeding; the DIG confirmed the dismissal on 29.05.2007 and the IG rejected his revision on 23.05.2008. He challenged the orders before the Patna High Court under Article 226. The Court found full procedure had been followed with the enquiry report supplied, the charges stood admitted leaving no scope to differ on proof, and no illegality in decision-making was shown. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "Since nothing has been brought to the notice of the Court regarding any illegality in taking decision, it would be difficult for this Court to interfere with either of the orders. Accordingly, I do not find any ground to pass favourable order.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding CISF constable's dismissal for threatening a superior.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2017-04-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 4508 of 2009", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/40897329/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=717102340100&Title=A-K-PANDEY-ALIAS-AJIT-KUMAR-PANDEY-Vs.-UNION-OF-INDIA-THROUGH-DIRECTOR-GENERAL", "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-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-024", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0037", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others", "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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": null, "judges": [], "judgment_date": "2018-08-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2011-08-21", "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. 226", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear", "key2:unclear", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": "unclear", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.76, "jev_p_culpable": 0.27, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Guwahati man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e740f699fca194121fad383", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=608102394100&title=ajit-medhi-vs-chief-judicial-magistrate" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to advocate's clerk a Guwahati man for unauthorised detention and torture at Panbazar Police Station from 21 to 23 August 2011. The Court found he was kept confined without arrest and subjected to inhuman torture in connection with a bail-bond forgery probe ordered on a complaint by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, then let off. It directed the Commissioner of Police, Guwahati City to deposit the amount with the Registry within 60 days. The full judgment text sits behind paywalls; the operative direction is quoted identically in two independent legal databases. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to advocate's clerk a Guwahati man for unauthorised detention and torture at Panbazar Police Station from 21 to 23 August 2011. The Court found he was kept confined without arrest and subjected to inhuman torture in connection with a bail-bond forgery probe ordered on a complaint by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, then let off. It directed the Commissioner of Police, Guwahati City to deposit the amount with the Registry within 60 days. The full judgment text sits behind paywalls; the operative direction is quoted identically in two independent legal databases.", "court_quote": "Detention of the petitioner in police custody from 3 am of 22.8.2011 to 2:00 p.m. of 23.8.2011 and the violence inflicted upon him during that period in custody is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. It is not a case of negligence as opined by the Inquiry Officer in the departmental proceeding but is a case of grave misconduct.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Full text paywalled; detention/torture facts and Rs 2L direction verified verbatim in two databases.", "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": "2018-08-21", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Gauhati High Court judgment 2018-08-21", "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://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e740f699fca194121fad383", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=608102394100&title=ajit-medhi-vs-chief-judicial-magistrate", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-024", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0042", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1196", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Guwahati Police IPS officer v. 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IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, serving as CVO of NEEPCO on central deputation, gave an interview to India Today on 2-3 March 2016 in official NEEPCO premises at Guwahati without authority, commenting on the Ishrat Jahan encounter investigation and official matters. Charge memos of 2016 and 2018 led to an inquiry that held Articles 1 to 4 proved, the UPSC advised the proved charges constituted grave misconduct, and the disciplinary authority dismissed him from service on 30.08.2022. The Delhi High Court held the findings were not based on no evidence, found no procedural irregularity or violation of natural justice, and dismissed his writ petition, rendering the three connected petitions infructuous. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, serving as CVO of NEEPCO on central deputation, gave an interview to India Today on 2-3 March 2016 in official NEEPCO premises at Guwahati without authority, commenting on the Ishrat Jahan encounter investigation and official matters. Charge memos of 2016 and 2018 led to an inquiry that held Articles 1 to 4 proved, the UPSC advised the proved charges constituted grave misconduct, and the disciplinary authority dismissed him from service on 30.08.2022. The Delhi High Court held the findings were not based on no evidence, found no procedural irregularity or violation of natural justice, and dismissed his writ petition, rendering the three connected petitions infructuous.", "court_quote": "Further, in view of the fact that the Petitioner has not been able to show any procedural irregularity or violation of the principles of natural justice and fair play, we do not find any reason to interfere with the findings returned by the Inquiry Authority or the order passed by the Disciplinary Authority.", "court_quote_para": "86", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "IPS officer's dismissal for unauthorised press interaction upheld; internal service-discipline matter, no civilian victim.", "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 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"merged_id": "CWC-0027", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0870", "CWC-1430" ], "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" ], "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", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati", "role": "named_only", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Guwahati 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://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" ], "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", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "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." } ], "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": [] }, { "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." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-25", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/display-5watermark-1571986.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "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", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/sites/default/files/2023-12/Handcuffing%20Adv-%20Gauhati%20HC.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/gauhati-high-court-orders-police-pay-rs-5-lakh-compensation-advocate-handcuffing-without-just-cause", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2024/01/03/state-compensation-liability-advocate-handcuffing-just-cause-gauhati-hc-legal-news/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/gauhati-high-court-orders-500000-compensation-for-unjust-handcuffing-of-advocate-by-assam-police-1511018", "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-27", "chunk-32", "chunk-40" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0033", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Golaghat Police Armed Branch Constable vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Golaghat Police Armed Branch Constable vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors", "state": "Assam", "district": "Golaghat", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Golaghat DEF", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Golaghat Police Armed Branch Constable vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors", "case_number": "WP(C)/4092/2013", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. Unni Krishnan Nair" ], "judgment_date": "2024-05-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2003-01-01", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act s.7", "IPC 376", "IPC 493" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Branch Constable", "unit": "Golaghat DEF", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.17, "jev_p_culpable": 0.83, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Armed Branch Constable, Golaghat DEF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/154346986/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court upheld the removal from service of Armed Branch Constable of Golaghat DEF for misconduct. Served a show-cause notice in September 2003 for maintaining an illegal relationship with a named woman while posted for duty, he was removed by the SP Golaghat in August 2005, affirmed by the DIG in May 2006. The Court held the departmental charge stood on a footing different from the connected criminal case in which he was later acquitted, was substantiated by material on record, and that delay further disentitled him. The writ petition was dismissed as bereft of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court upheld the removal from service of Armed Branch Constable of Golaghat DEF for misconduct. Served a show-cause notice in September 2003 for maintaining an illegal relationship with a named woman while posted for duty, he was removed by the SP Golaghat in August 2005, affirmed by the DIG in May 2006. The Court held the departmental charge stood on a footing different from the connected criminal case in which he was later acquitted, was substantiated by material on record, and that delay further disentitled him. The writ petition was dismissed as bereft of merit.", "court_quote": "In that view of the matter, the writ petition is hereby held to be bereft of merit and the same, accordingly, stands dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "30", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Removal of constable for misconduct upheld; writ dismissed, verified.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2024-05-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "WP(C)/4092/2013", "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/154346986/", "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-27" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-020", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0867", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Silapathar Man v. State of Assam & 3 Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Silapathar Man v. State of Assam & 3 Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Dhemaji", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Silapathar", "police_station_or_unit": "Silapathar Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Silapathar Man v. State of Assam & 3 Ors.", "case_number": "WP(C)/3604/2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Manash Ranjan Pathak", "Mitali Thakuria" ], "judgment_date": "2024-05-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2015-10-30", "incident_year": 2015, "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": [ "Assam Forest Regulation Act ss.40/41/49", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Assam Police escort party (Dhemaji)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Assam Police escort party (Dhemaji)" } ], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Silapathar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/54648071/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://lawyerenews.com/legal_detail/human-rights-are-universal-gauhati-high-court-orders-compensation-in-custodial-death-case" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held the State of Assam liable to pay Rs.3,00,000 compensation to the next of kin of undertrial a Silapathar man, who died on 30 October 2015 after falling from a running escort bus near Jalakiasuti while being brought back from Jonai court to Dhemaji District Jail in police custody. The Court recorded that the escorting police personnel had already faced departmental proceedings and been punished with stoppage of two annual increments. Relying on the Supreme Court's ruling in Re-Inhuman Conditions in 1382 Prisons, it held that persons suffering unnatural death in custody are victims whose next of kin are entitled to compensation. Since the petitioner's identity as the father was disputed, the Court directed the amount to be deposited before the District & Sessions Judge, Dhemaji within two months for disbursement only after verification and identification. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held the State of Assam liable to pay Rs.3,00,000 compensation to the next of kin of undertrial a Silapathar man, who died on 30 October 2015 after falling from a running escort bus near Jalakiasuti while being brought back from Jonai court to Dhemaji District Jail in police custody. The Court recorded that the escorting police personnel had already faced departmental proceedings and been punished with stoppage of two annual increments. Relying on the Supreme Court's ruling in Re-Inhuman Conditions in 1382 Prisons, it held that persons suffering unnatural death in custody are victims whose next of kin are entitled to compensation. Since the petitioner's identity as the father was disputed, the Court directed the amount to be deposited before the District & Sessions Judge, Dhemaji within two months for disbursement only after verification and identification.", "court_quote": "In view of above and also in view of the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Re-Inhuman Conditions in 1382 Prisons (supra) and considering the fact that the deceased was in police custody when the incident took place, we are of the considered opinion that the compensation to the tune of Rs. 3 (three) Lakhs is found to be reasonable and justified and that the State authorities are liable to pay the said compensation amount to the next of kin of the deceased [name withheld].", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC ordered Rs.3 lakh compensation for undertrial's death in police escort custody; escort staff already penalised departmentally.", "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": "2024-05-21", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "WP(C)/3604/2016", "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/54648071/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawyerenews.com/legal_detail/human-rights-are-universal-gauhati-high-court-orders-compensation-in-custodial-death-case", "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-71" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-44-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0075", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1378", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sonitpur Man vs The State of Assam and Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Sonitpur Man vs The State of Assam and Ors", "state": "Assam", "district": "Sonitpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Mahabhairab police outpost, Tezpur", "court": "The Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "The Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sonitpur Man vs The State of Assam and Ors", "case_number": "WP(C)/6349/2017", "citation": "2025:GAU-AS:711", "judges": [ "Kardak Ete" ], "judgment_date": "2025-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2017-04-20", "incident_year": 2017, "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", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "police personnel", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Mahabhairab police outpost / Assam Police, Tezpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "police personnel, Mahabhairab police outpost / Assam Police, Tezpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sonitpur 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/71316095/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the petitioner, a bystander near a road-accident protest site, suffered a bullet injury when the police opened fire. The High Court held that the firing was done without warning or superior orders and amounted to gross state violence. The High Court directed the respondent authorities to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation in exercise of public-law jurisdiction. The High Court made clear the award was in addition to any other legal remedy available to the petitioner.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the petitioner, a bystander near a road-accident protest site, suffered a bullet injury when the police opened fire. The High Court held that the firing was done without warning or superior orders and amounted to gross state violence. The High Court directed the respondent authorities to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation in exercise of public-law jurisdiction. The High Court made clear the award was in addition to any other legal remedy available to the petitioner.", "court_quote": "I am inclined to direct that petitionerbe paid an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- (Rupees five lakhs) only as compensation.", "court_quote_para": "Para 24", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2025-01-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "The Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2025:GAU-AS:711", "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/71316095/", "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-1", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0034", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Baithalangso Police Sub-Inspector (Probationer) vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Baithalangso Police Sub-Inspector (Probationer) vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors", "state": "Assam", "district": "West Karbi Anglong", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Baithalangso", "police_station_or_unit": "Baithalangso Police Station (naka duty at Umru)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Baithalangso Police Sub-Inspector (Probationer) vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors", "case_number": "WP(C)/1630/2024", "citation": "2025:GAU-AS:10386", "judges": [ "N. Unni Krishnan Nair" ], "judgment_date": "2025-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2023-05-31", "incident_year": 2023, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Probationer)", "unit": "Baithalangso Police Station, West Karbi Anglong", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector (Probationer), Baithalangso Police Station, West Karbi Anglong" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Baithalangso resident" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Baithalangso resident" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Baithalangso resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/98298987/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court dismissed the writ petition of probationer Sub-Inspector and upheld his removal from service for extortion committed during naka duty at Umru on 31 May 2023. The Court found that personnel under his command took Rs 30,000 from the pocket of bike-rider a Baithalangso resident, with further extortion from two other riders proved through eleven witnesses in the departmental enquiry. It held that his subsequent discharge in PRC No. 234/2023 at the charge-framing stage had no consequence for the already concluded departmental proceedings and that the penalty was not disproportionate. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court dismissed the writ petition of probationer Sub-Inspector and upheld his removal from service for extortion committed during naka duty at Umru on 31 May 2023. The Court found that personnel under his command took Rs 30,000 from the pocket of bike-rider a Baithalangso resident, with further extortion from two other riders proved through eleven witnesses in the departmental enquiry. It held that his subsequent discharge in PRC No. 234/2023 at the charge-framing stage had no consequence for the already concluded departmental proceedings and that the penalty was not disproportionate.", "court_quote": "the penalty of removal from service imposed upon the petitioner, in the considered view of this Court, is not disproportionate to the allegations levelled against the petitioner in the said Show Cause Notice, dated 09-07-2023, and established in the enquiry.", "court_quote_para": "51", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; removal for Rs 30,000 extortion upheld, criminal discharge held irrelevant to concluded enquiry.", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2025-07-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2025:GAU-AS:10386", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/98298987/", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0032", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1437" ], "display_title": "Kokrajhar Man vs The Union of India and 7 Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Kokrajhar Man vs The Union of India and 7 Ors", "state": "Assam", "district": "Kokrajhar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Joint Assam Police-Army (7th Sikh LI) ambush party, Bismuri/Kokrajhar", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kokrajhar Man vs The Union of India and 7 Ors", "case_number": "WP(C)/1098/2017", "citation": "2026:GAU-AS:418-DB", "judges": [ "Kalyan Rai Surana", "Rajesh Mazumdar" ], "judgment_date": "2026-01-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2016-12-28", "incident_year": 2016, "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", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kokrajhar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120284705/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display-20-653766.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-grants-25-lakh-compensation-family-man-killed-during-police-operation-521769" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that the killing of cultivator a Kokrajhar man in a joint police-Army ambush near Bismuri outpost on 28 December 2016 was an avoidable encounter infringing Article 21. While stopping short of calling the ambush staged, the Court found laxity on intelligence inputs and a sudden, hurried, undocumented ambush that created the exchange of fire in which the deceased was shot. As palliative relief, without prejudice to other remedies, it directed the Union of India and the State of Assam to pay Rs 5,00,000 each to the widow (Rs 10,00,000) and Rs 2,50,000 each to every surviving child (Rs 5,00,000 per child), within one month. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that the killing of cultivator a Kokrajhar man in a joint police-Army ambush near Bismuri outpost on 28 December 2016 was an avoidable encounter infringing Article 21. While stopping short of calling the ambush staged, the Court found laxity on intelligence inputs and a sudden, hurried, undocumented ambush that created the exchange of fire in which the deceased was shot. As palliative relief, without prejudice to other remedies, it directed the Union of India and the State of Assam to pay Rs 5,00,000 each to the widow (Rs 10,00,000) and Rs 2,50,000 each to every surviving child (Rs 5,00,000 per child), within one month.", "court_quote": "The laxity displayed while acting on the intelligence inputs and the sudden and hurried decision to lay an undocumented ambush played a vital role in creating a situation which led to exchange of fire between the deceased and the police, leading to his death. We stop short of concluding that the ambush was laid to achieve predicted outcomes.", "court_quote_para": "33", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Avoidable encounter violated Art 21; Rs 25L total (agent missed widow's 10L).", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-01-08", "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 2,500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026:GAU-AS:418-DB", "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/120284705/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display-20-653766.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-grants-25-lakh-compensation-family-man-killed-during-police-operation-521769", "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-27", "chunk-43" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-019", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0016", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haflong Woman vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Haflong Woman vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors", "state": "Assam", "district": "Dima Hasao", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Haflong", "police_station_or_unit": "Sarkari Bagan Town Outpost, Haflong; SP Office, Dima Hasao", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haflong Woman vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors", "case_number": "WP(C)/392/2024", "citation": "2026:GAU-AS:7734-DB", "judges": [ "K.R. Surana", "Shamima Jahan" ], "judgment_date": "2026-06-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2020-04-24", "incident_year": 2020, "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": [ "IPC 120B", "IPC 365", "IPC 302", "IPC 304A", "IPC 201", "IPC 34", "Assam Police Act 2007 s.98(A)", "Assam Police Act 2007 s.99(3)", "Assam Police Act 2007 s.99(5)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police (then SP, Dima Hasao)", "unit": "Dima Hasao, Assam Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.41, "jev_p_culpable": 0.73, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police (then SP, Dima Hasao), Dima Hasao, Assam Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (then DySP)", "unit": "Dima Hasao, Assam Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.38, "jev_p_culpable": 0.81, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (then DySP), Dima Hasao, Assam Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Dima Hasao, Assam Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.37, "jev_p_culpable": 0.81, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Dima Hasao, Assam Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Assam Battalion", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.37, "jev_p_culpable": 0.78, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Assam Battalion" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Assam Battalion", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.29, "jev_p_culpable": 0.81, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Assam Battalion" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Assam Battalion", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.36, "jev_p_culpable": 0.77, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Assam Battalion" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Assam Battalion", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.53, "jev_p_culpable": 0.75, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Assam Battalion" } ], "officer_count": 7, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Haflong man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112938816/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Division Bench held seven Assam Police personnel, led by the then Superintendent of Police [name withheld], involved in the kidnapping, torture and murder in custody of a Haflong man, picked up at gunpoint from his home on 24 April 2020. Relying on CID Charge Sheet No. 6 of 2021, the Court found the victim was interrogated and tortured in the SP office CDR room, beaten with lathis, died in a police vehicle on 25 April 2020, and his body was buried in a jungle while General Diary pages were torn to destroy evidence. Holding the Article 21 violation established without awaiting the criminal trial, the Court awarded Rs 20 lakh in addition to Rs 5 lakh interim already paid (Rs 25 lakh total palliative award), recoverable from erring officials found guilty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Division Bench held seven Assam Police personnel, led by the then Superintendent of Police [name withheld], involved in the kidnapping, torture and murder in custody of a Haflong man, picked up at gunpoint from his home on 24 April 2020. Relying on CID Charge Sheet No. 6 of 2021, the Court found the victim was interrogated and tortured in the SP office CDR room, beaten with lathis, died in a police vehicle on 25 April 2020, and his body was buried in a jungle while General Diary pages were torn to destroy evidence. Holding the Article 21 violation established without awaiting the criminal trial, the Court awarded Rs 20 lakh in addition to Rs 5 lakh interim already paid (Rs 25 lakh total palliative award), recoverable from erring officials found guilty.", "court_quote": "The investigation was conducted and the police officials namely [name withheld], the then Superintendent of Police, [name withheld], the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, [name withheld], the then Sub-inspector of Police, Constable [name withheld], C/N [name withheld], Constable [name withheld], C/N [name withheld], were found involved in the kidnapping, torture and murder of the victim.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench held 7 Assam Police personnel led by then SP Dima Hasao responsible for kidnapping, torture and custodial murder of a Haflong man; Rs 25 lakh total palliative award.", "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": "2026-06-03", "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 2,500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026:GAU-AS:7734-DB", "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/112938816/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "SWENFORC-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0527", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0649" ], "display_title": "Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.", "state": "Assam", "district": "Dima Hasao", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Maibang", "police_station_or_unit": "Assam Police (Dima Hasao); Maibang PS", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 652 of 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": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Maibang woman" }, { "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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/29/2026gau-as12436-verdictum-1783356.pdf", "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", "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/10/displayphp-699497.pdf" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 25 January 2018, an anti-Greater Nagalim protest at Maibang Railway Station turned violent with railway property damaged and stones pelted, and police firing from the platform killed a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident and seriously injured a Maibang woman, a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident The Court declined to hold the firing unprovoked but found the above-waist bullet injuries established excessive force violating the victims' fundamental rights, holding sovereign immunity no defence to such violations. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 each to the families of the two deceased and Rs 2,00,000 each to the three injured (Rs 12,00,000 total) within three months, borne by the State. Subcategory corrected from fake encounter to disproportionate force: this was excessive crowd-control firing, not a staged encounter. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 25 January 2018, an anti-Greater Nagalim protest at Maibang Railway Station turned violent with railway property damaged and stones pelted, and police firing from the platform killed a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident and seriously injured a Maibang woman, a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident The Court declined to hold the firing unprovoked but found the above-waist bullet injuries established excessive force violating the victims' fundamental rights, holding sovereign immunity no defence to such violations. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 each to the families of the two deceased and Rs 2,00,000 each to the three injured (Rs 12,00,000 total) within three months, borne by the State. Subcategory corrected from fake encounter to disproportionate force: this was excessive crowd-control firing, not a staged encounter.", "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": "Above-waist bullet injuries showed excessive force on Maibang protesters; Rs 12L total.", "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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/29/2026gau-as12436-verdictum-1783356.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "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", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/10/displayphp-699497.pdf", "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-40", "chunk-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-024", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0055", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0918", "alias_merged_ids": [], "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157052802/", "link_checked": null }, { "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", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866", "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": [ "chunk-15" ], "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "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" } ] }