{ "state": "Manipur", "slug": "manipur", "count": 18, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/manipur", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1997-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0273", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Churachandpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien village", "police_station_or_unit": "Imphal Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 612 of 1992", "citation": "(1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203", "judges": [ "B.P. Jeevan Reddy", "S.C. Sen" ], "judgment_date": "1997-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1991-04-03", "incident_year": 1991, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/544871/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "On PUCL's Article 32 petition, the Supreme Court accepted a District Judge inquiry finding that Imphal police caught villagers of Lunthilian on the night of 3 April 1991, trucked them away and shot dead a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man in custody on 4 April 1991, holding there was no encounter. The Court noted three other villagers were kept in custody for months until 22 July 1991. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each bereaved family payable by the Manipur government through the District Magistrate within two months, plus Rs 10,000 costs to PUCL. The Court left punishment of the offenders to the criminal courts while granting public-law compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On PUCL's Article 32 petition, the Supreme Court accepted a District Judge inquiry finding that Imphal police caught villagers of Lunthilian on the night of 3 April 1991, trucked them away and shot dead a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man in custody on 4 April 1991, holding there was no encounter. The Court noted three other villagers were kept in custody for months until 22 July 1991. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each bereaved family payable by the Manipur government through the District Magistrate within two months, plus Rs 10,000 costs to PUCL. The Court left punishment of the offenders to the criminal courts while granting public-law compensation.", "court_quote": "there was no encounter in the night between 3-4-1991 and 4-4-1991 at Nungthulien Village. The two deceased, namely, a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man were shot dead by the police while in custody on 4-4-1991.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court held the 1991 killings were custodial murders, not an encounter, and awarded Rs 1 lakh per family; matches adverse_finding_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": "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": "1997-02-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203", "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/544871/", "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-29" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-027", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0270", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chandel Man vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chandel Man vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Chandel", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chandel", "police_station_or_unit": "Chandel Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chandel Man vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1998 ACJ 1298", "judges": [ "W.A. Shishak", "P.K. Ghosh" ], "judgment_date": "1997-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1989-01-28", "incident_year": 1989, "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 202", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chandel Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Chandel Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chandel 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/274318/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court held that Ningthoujam Angou Singh, a PHED pump operator, died in the custody of Chandel police on 28 January 1989, hours after a six-man armed party led by ASI took him from his home without disclosing any case. The Court found he was brought to Chandel hospital in a dying condition with severe injuries and that police fabricated an arrest in FIR 5(1)89 under Section 302 IPC. It allowed the CLAHRO petition and directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 to the widow and minor children within three months. The Court left it open to the State to recover the amount from the persons found responsible for the custodial death. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court held that N. A. S., a PHED pump operator, died in the custody of Chandel police on 28 January 1989, hours after a six-man armed party led by ASI took him from his home without disclosing any case. The Court found he was brought to Chandel hospital in a dying condition with severe injuries and that police fabricated an arrest in FIR 5(1)89 under Section 302 IPC. It allowed the CLAHRO petition and directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 to the widow and minor children within three months. The Court left it open to the State to recover the amount from the persons found responsible for the custodial death.", "court_quote": "On careful perusal of the documents placed before us and after hearing counsel of both sides and in the facts and circumstances narrated above, we are of the view that death of N. Angou Singh in police custody has been established. In such a situation, the only remedy we can think of is to award compensation so that the members of the family of the deceased may not be driven to destitution.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC DB held custodial death established and awarded Rs 2 lakh; matches adverse_finding_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": "1997-08-01", "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": "1998 ACJ 1298", "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/274318/", "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-29" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1998-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0860", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Iroishemba Woman vs State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Iroishemba Woman vs State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Iroishemba", "police_station_or_unit": "5th Battalion, Manipur Rifles (Iroishemba post)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "Iroishemba Woman vs State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 315 of 1996", "citation": "AIR 1999 Gauhati 9; (1998) 3 Gau LR 123", "judges": [ "H.K. Sema" ], "judgment_date": "1998-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1998, "incident_date": "1995-08-14", "incident_year": 1995, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "5th Battalion, Manipur Rifles, Iroishemba", "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": "Police personnel, 5th Battalion, Manipur Rifles, Iroishemba" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": 43, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Iroishemba man, age 43" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/672029/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/426619/smt-aheibam-ongbi-leihao-devi-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) allowed the writ petition of the widow of taxi driver [name withheld], killed on 14.08.1995 near the 5th Bn Manipur Rifles post at Iroishemba. Relying on a court-ordered ADM enquiry, the court found he died of bullet injuries fired by the Rifles personnel, who had fired about 83 rounds of.303 ammunition at his lone jeep after he allegedly failed to halt. It termed the firing indiscriminate and trigger-happy, held the killing a breach of fundamental rights for which the State was vicariously liable, and directed Rs 1.5 lakh compensation within three months, adjusting the Rs 20,000 ex gratia already paid. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) allowed the writ petition of the widow of taxi driver [name withheld], killed on 14.08.1995 near the 5th Bn Manipur Rifles post at Iroishemba. Relying on a court-ordered ADM enquiry, the court found he died of bullet injuries fired by the Rifles personnel, who had fired about 83 rounds of.303 ammunition at his lone jeep after he allegedly failed to halt. It termed the firing indiscriminate and trigger-happy, held the killing a breach of fundamental rights for which the State was vicariously liable, and directed Rs 1.5 lakh compensation within three months, adjusting the Rs 20,000 ex gratia already paid.", "court_quote": "It is shocking to notice that in order to stop a lone vehicle (Jeep) altogether about 83 rounds of .303 ammunition had been fired indiscriminately.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: Rs 1.5L compensation for indiscriminate firing killing taxi driver.", "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": "1998-03-31", "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 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 1999 Gauhati 9; (1998) 3 Gau LR 123", "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" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/672029/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/426619/smt-aheibam-ongbi-leihao-devi-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-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-69" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-41-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0263", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Loitang Khunou Woman vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Loitang Khunou Woman vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Loitang Khunou (Lamsang)", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Loitang Khunou Woman vs State of Manipur and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2006 Cri LJ 1895", "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2006-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1999-02-15", "incident_year": 1999, "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", "Constitution Art 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Pebam John Singh", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.19, "jev_p_culpable": 0.87, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Pebam John Singh", "display": "Pebam John Singh (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "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": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commando Unit" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector (OC)", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando Unit", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.88, "jev_p_culpable": 0.29, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector (OC), Manipur Police Commando Unit" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Loitang Khunou 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/117071/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Loitang Khunou man @ a Loitang Khunou man was in the custody of five Manipur Police Commando personnel (respondents 6-10) led by SI Pebam John Singh when he was shot dead at Loitang Khunou on 15-02-1999 in a staged encounter, rejecting the police version. The court found the commandos took him to Loitang Khunou instead of the lock-up at their own risk and were liable for the loss of life in their protection and custody. Holding the State vicariously liable for the constitutional tort, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation payable within three months, the respondents jointly and severally liable. The staged FIR (Lamsang PS 7(2)/99 under Sections 121/121-A/307/302/34 IPC) did not save the encounter claim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Loitang Khunou man @ a Loitang Khunou man was in the custody of five Manipur Police Commando personnel (respondents 6-10) led by SI Pebam John Singh when he was shot dead at Loitang Khunou on 15-02-1999 in a staged encounter, rejecting the police version. The court found the commandos took him to Loitang Khunou instead of the lock-up at their own risk and were liable for the loss of life in their protection and custody. Holding the State vicariously liable for the constitutional tort, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation payable within three months, the respondents jointly and severally liable. The staged FIR (Lamsang PS 7(2)/99 under Sections 121/121-A/307/302/34 IPC) did not save the encounter claim.", "court_quote": "From the view of what has been discussed above, I am of the considered view that late a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man was in the custody of respondents 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 at the time of the incidence on 15-2-1999 and they (respondents 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) are liable for loss of the life of a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man who was very much in their protection and custody, and at their own risks they (respondents 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10) had taken a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man to Loitang Khunou instead of keeping him in the police lock-up and thereby resulting to the loss of the life of a Loitang Khunou man Alias a Loitang Khunou man at Loitang Khunou on 15-2-1999.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held a Loitang Khunou man shot in custody in fake encounter; Rs 3L, respondents jointly/severally liable.", "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": "2006-01-31", "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 Cri LJ 1895", "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/117071/", "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-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-008", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1309", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "[name withheld] & Anr. Lamlai Man Ongbi Gambhini Devi", "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] & Anr. Lamlai Man Ongbi Gambhini Devi", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal East", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lamlai", "police_station_or_unit": "Lamlai Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "[name withheld] & Anr. Lamlai Man Ongbi Gambhini Devi", "case_number": "First Appeal against Money Suit No. 3 of 1985 (31 of 2002)", "citation": "(2007) CriLJ 1491", "judges": [ "B. D. Agarwal" ], "judgment_date": "2006-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1983-06-13", "incident_year": 1983, "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": [ "IPC 366", "IPC 34", "IPC 304-A", "Arms Act s.25(1)(a)", "CrPC 46" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector, Officer-in-charge", "unit": "Lamlai Police Station", "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": "Inspector, Officer-in-charge, Lamlai Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Police Constable", "unit": "Lamlai Police Station", "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 Police Constable, Lamlai Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Naik", "unit": "Lamlai Police Station", "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": "Naik, Lamlai Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Lamlai Police Station", "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": "Police Constable, Lamlai Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Lamlai Police Station", "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": "Police Constable, Lamlai Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "age": 25, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Lamlai man, age 25" } ], "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/1667853/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/430707/nangkhujam-mungsong-and-another-appellant-hash-smt-thokchom-ongbi-gambhini-devi-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 13 June 1983 a Lamlai police party went to arrest a Lamlai man, 25, in a kidnapping case; when he fled, constables chased and fired, one bullet hit him and he died on the way to hospital. The criminal case under section 304-A IPC ended with the Officer-in-charge discharged and the constable acquitted, but the deceased's mother won a Rs.5 lakh money-suit decree against the five officers. On 29 November 2006 the High Court held that where a government servant causes death in violation of law while on duty, the State must compensate first and may recover from the erring servants. It maintained the Rs.5 lakh award (no interest) but modified the decree so the State of Manipur pays within three months, recoverable from the officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 13 June 1983 a Lamlai police party went to arrest a Lamlai man, 25, in a kidnapping case; when he fled, constables chased and fired, one bullet hit him and he died on the way to hospital. The criminal case under section 304-A IPC ended with the Officer-in-charge discharged and the constable acquitted, but the deceased's mother won a Rs.5 lakh money-suit decree against the five officers. On 29 November 2006 the High Court held that where a government servant causes death in violation of law while on duty, the State must compensate first and may recover from the erring servants. It maintained the Rs.5 lakh award (no interest) but modified the decree so the State of Manipur pays within three months, recoverable from the officers.", "court_quote": "In other words, the amount of compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs is hereby maintained. However, it is made clear that the plaintiff/respondent No. 1 shall not be entitled to any interest thereon till date. The State is directed to make the aforesaid payment within 3 (three) months from today.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs.5L award for death by police firing maintained; State ordered to pay within 3 months.", "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": "2006-11-29", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) CriLJ 1491", "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/1667853/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/430707/nangkhujam-mungsong-and-another-appellant-hash-smt-thokchom-ongbi-gambhini-devi-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-125" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-93-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0654", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Irong Thana Thongkhong Man v. State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Irong Thana Thongkhong Man v. State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Thoubal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Irong Thana Thongkhong", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police (armed escort of MLA)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "Irong Thana Thongkhong Man v. State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "(2007) 2 GLR 823", "judges": [ "B.D. Agarwal" ], "judgment_date": "2006-12-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2000-02-03", "incident_year": 2000, "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", "IPC 307", "IPC 326", "IPC 114", "IPC 34", "Arms Act s.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Constable", "unit": "Manipur Police (MLA escort party)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.6, "jev_p_culpable": 0.13, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Armed Constable, Manipur Police (MLA escort party)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Irong Thana Thongkhong 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/374840/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/560910b3e4b01497111823e8", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/137479/hesamuddin-iboyaima-vs-state-manipur" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench, Justice B.D. Agarwal) awarded Rs 2.5 lakh to the father of an Irong Thana Thongkhong man, who was shot dead by armed police constables escorting a sitting MLA during the February 2000 Assembly election campaign at Irong Thana Thongkhong. The Court found the firing was resorted to on mere suspicion of an attack, with no actual attack or provocation from the deceased's side, a conclusion supported by the District Magistrate's executive inquiry. The State of Manipur was held liable for the constables' killing; Rs 50,000 already paid as interim relief was adjusted against the award, which also covered two others injured in the firing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench, Justice B.D. Agarwal) awarded Rs 2.5 lakh to the father of an Irong Thana Thongkhong man, who was shot dead by armed police constables escorting a sitting MLA during the February 2000 Assembly election campaign at Irong Thana Thongkhong. The Court found the firing was resorted to on mere suspicion of an attack, with no actual attack or provocation from the deceased's side, a conclusion supported by the District Magistrate's executive inquiry. The State of Manipur was held liable for the constables' killing; Rs 50,000 already paid as interim relief was adjusted against the award, which also covered two others injured in the firing.", "court_quote": "In the result, the writ petition stands allowed with a direction that the writ petitioner is entitled to compensation of Rs. 2.5 lakhs (Rs. Two lakhs fifty thousand only). Since the deceased was killed by police constable, the State of Manipur is liable to satisfy the award.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC judgment corroborated on CaseMine/sooperkanoon/court records; Rs 2.5L award for unprovoked police firing 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": "2006-12-20", "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 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 2 GLR 823", "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/374840/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/560910b3e4b01497111823e8", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/137479/hesamuddin-iboyaima-vs-state-manipur", "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-038", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0268", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0525" ], "display_title": "Kakching Man vs State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kakching Man vs State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Kakching", "district_at_time": "Thoubal", "city_town": "Kakching", "police_station_or_unit": "Kakching Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "Kakching Man vs State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 16 of 2006", "citation": "(2010) 6 GLR 609", "judges": [ "Madan B. Lokur", "Ashok Potsangbam" ], "judgment_date": "2010-08-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "2006-01-01", "incident_year": 2006, "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": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kakching 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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/khsetrimayum-ghane-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://kanglaonline.in/2010/08/hc-tells-govt-to-pay-rs-5-lakh-to-kin-of-custodial-death-victim/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/pdf/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) held that a Kakching man died as a result of torture by police personnel of Kakching Police Station after being arrested in connection with his wife's death. Accepting the inquiry report of the District Judge, Manipur West, the Division Bench rejected police denials and confirmed custodial violence. The court awarded Rs 5,00,000 as compensation to be held in fixed deposits for the victim's two minor children until they attain 21 years of age. Additionally, the High Court directed the Director General of Police to conduct an in-house enquiry personally or through an officer not below DIG rank to initiate departmental action against the responsible police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) held that a Kakching man died as a result of torture by police personnel of Kakching Police Station after being arrested in connection with his wife's death. Accepting the inquiry report of the District Judge, Manipur West, the Division Bench rejected police denials and confirmed custodial violence. The court awarded Rs 5,00,000 as compensation to be held in fixed deposits for the victim's two minor children until they attain 21 years of age. Additionally, the High Court directed the Director General of Police to conduct an in-house enquiry personally or through an officer not below DIG rank to initiate departmental action against the responsible police personnel.", "court_quote": "It cannot be seriously disputed that a Kakching man was tortured to death by the local police, although this is denied.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Imphal Bench) held Kakching police tortured a Kakching man to death, awarding Rs 5,00,000 compensation and ordering departmental inquiry.", "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": "2010-08-23", "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": "(2010) 6 GLR 609", "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/415571/khsetrimayum-ghane-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://kanglaonline.in/2010/08/hc-tells-govt-to-pay-rs-5-lakh-to-kin-of-custodial-death-victim/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415571/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-16", "chunk-39" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0560", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "New Tairenpokpi Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "New Tairenpokpi Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "New Tairenpokpi", "police_station_or_unit": "Imphal West Police Commando with 16 Assam Rifles (combined force; FIR No. 16(3)09, Lamshang PS)", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "New Tairenpokpi Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 71 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh", "Mutum Binoykumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2011-08-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2009-03-24", "incident_year": 2009, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "New Tairenpokpi 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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-71.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 24 March 2009, civilian construction labourer and tutor a New Tairenpokpi man was picked up by plainclothes personnel of the combined Imphal West Police Commando and 16 Assam Rifles force while on his way to a Youth, and was shot dead the same evening at New Tairenpokpi; a false KYKL-encounter case was registered at Lamshang PS. The Addl. District Judge inquiry found no evidence he was a KYKL member and rejected the encounter version. The Court held the petitioner's case more trustworthy, found an established Article 21 violation, and awarded Rs 5,00,000 exemplary damages shared equally by the State and the Union/AR plus Rs 6,000 costs, preserving criminal remedies. Decided by the Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 24 March 2009, civilian construction labourer and tutor a New Tairenpokpi man was picked up by plainclothes personnel of the combined Imphal West Police Commando and 16 Assam Rifles force while on his way to a Youth, and was shot dead the same evening at New Tairenpokpi; a false KYKL-encounter case was registered at Lamshang PS. The Addl. District Judge inquiry found no evidence he was a KYKL member and rejected the encounter version. The Court held the petitioner's case more trustworthy, found an established Article 21 violation, and awarded Rs 5,00,000 exemplary damages shared equally by the State and the Union/AR plus Rs 6,000 costs, preserving criminal remedies. Decided by the Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench).", "court_quote": "In the present case, on careful perusal of the statements of PWs before the learned Addl District & Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court, Imphal East) and also the annexures in the present writ petition, it appears that the case of the petitioner is convincing and more trustworthy than that of the respondents.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Civilian tutor picked up and killed by combined force; false KYKL case, Rs 5L.", "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": "2011-08-25", "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": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 71 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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-71.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-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-023", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0269", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others", "display_title_redacted": "The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Kakching", "district_at_time": "Thoubal", "city_town": "Kakching", "police_station_or_unit": "Kakching Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others", "case_number": "Regular First Appeal No. 3 of 2009", "citation": "AIR 2012 Guw 113", "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2012-06-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1991-07-29", "incident_year": 1991, "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 224", "IPC 330", "IPC 331" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Kakching Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kakching Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Kakching Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.91, "jev_p_culpable": 0.14, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector, Kakching Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 35, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kakching man, age 35" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 720000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/431290/the-chief-secretary-government-of-manipur-and-others-appellant-hash-smt-naorem-ongbi-rashmani-de/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) dismissed the State of Manipur's regular first appeal, affirming a civil court decree awarding Rs 7,20,000 with 6% annual interest for the custodial death of a Kakching man Singh was arrested from his home on 29 July 1991 by an ASI-led police party and taken to Kakching Police Station, where he was tortured in the lockup, and his dead body was subsequently found floating in Kharungpat lake on 2 August 1991. The High Court rejected the police's fabricated claim that Singh had escaped from custody, holding that the State was vicariously liable for the wrongful and tortious acts of its police officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) dismissed the State of Manipur's regular first appeal, affirming a civil court decree awarding Rs 7,20,000 with 6% annual interest for the custodial death of a Kakching man Singh was arrested from his home on 29 July 1991 by an ASI-led police party and taken to Kakching Police Station, where he was tortured in the lockup, and his dead body was subsequently found floating in Kharungpat lake on 2 August 1991. The High Court rejected the police's fabricated claim that Singh had escaped from custody, holding that the State was vicariously liable for the wrongful and tortious acts of its police officers.", "court_quote": "The learned Trial Court after appreciation of the statements of D.Ws. held that the defendants had utterly failed to prove that (late) a Kakching man, escaped from police custody and further held that (late) a Kakching man died in the police custody.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Imphal Bench) dismissed State appeal, affirming Rs 7,20,000 tort damages plus 6% interest for custodial death of a Kakching man", "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": "2012-06-05", "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 720,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2012 Guw 113", "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/431290/the-chief-secretary-government-of-manipur-and-others-appellant-hash-smt-naorem-ongbi-rashmani-de/", "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-16" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0558", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Khurai Chairenthong Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Khurai Chairenthong Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal East", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Khurai Chairenthong", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Imphal", "case_title": "Khurai Chairenthong Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 25 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2013-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2006-11-13", "incident_year": 2006, "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": "Havildar", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.86, "jev_p_culpable": 0.27, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Havildar, Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.23, "jev_p_culpable": 0.8, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 26, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Khurai Chairenthong man, age 26" } ], "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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-25.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 13 November 2006, hours after his release from Central Jail Sajiwa, 26-year-old a Khurai Chairenthong man @ a Khurai Chairenthong man was dragged from a Maruti van near N.G. Mani College while returning home with friends, and shot dead by Manipur Police Commandos at Khurai Chairenthong. Havildar then lodged a false report claiming the youth attacked police during frisking. Accepting the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry, the Court found a Khurai Chairenthong man was shot down by Manipur Police personnel and awarded Rs 5,00,000 public-law compensation plus Rs 5,000 costs, preserving civil and criminal remedies. Decided by the Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench), before the Manipur High Court was established in March 2013. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 13 November 2006, hours after his release from Central Jail Sajiwa, 26-year-old a Khurai Chairenthong man @ a Khurai Chairenthong man was dragged from a Maruti van near N.G. Mani College while returning home with friends, and shot dead by Manipur Police Commandos at Khurai Chairenthong. Havildar then lodged a false report claiming the youth attacked police during frisking. Accepting the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry, the Court found a Khurai Chairenthong man was shot down by Manipur Police personnel and awarded Rs 5,00,000 public-law compensation plus Rs 5,000 costs, preserving civil and criminal remedies. Decided by the Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench), before the Manipur High Court was established in March 2013.", "court_quote": "Therefore, we have come to the finding that a Khurai Chairenthong man @ a Khurai Chairenthong man was shot down by the Manipur Police personnel in the incident on 13.11.2006.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Youth dragged from van and shot after jail release; false case exposed, Rs 5L.", "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": "2013-02-07", "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": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 25 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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-25.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-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0266", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0639" ], "display_title": "Heirangoithong Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Heirangoithong Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Heirangoithong (killing at Heinoupok-Sadokpam road)", "police_station_or_unit": "Imphal West Commando, Manipur Police, with 32 Assam Rifles (joint operation)", "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Heirangoithong Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 18 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "L.K. Mohapatra", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-09-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2008-12-23", "incident_year": 2008, "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": null, "unit": "Manipur Police Commando (joint operation with 32 Assam Rifles)", "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": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commando (joint operation with 32 Assam Rifles)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Subedar", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando", "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": "Subedar, Manipur Police Commando" } ], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": 38, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Heirangoithong man, age 38" } ], "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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-18.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86008/ningombam-brojen-singh-vs-state-of-manipur/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86008/ningombam-brojen-singh-vs-the-state-of-manipur/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47609784/" ], "summary": "On 23 December 2008, a Heirangoithong man, a 38-year-old unmarried Grade-IV High Court employee, was dragged from a tea shop at Heirangoithong and shot dead on the Heinoupok-Sadokpam road by a joint team of Manipur Police Commandos and 32 Assam Rifles, who branded him a PREPAK cadre with a planted pistol and grenade lever. The High Court accepted the District & Sessions Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding, based on eyewitness evidence, that the official encounter version was false. It allowed the brothers' writ petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation, shared equally by the State and 32 Assam Rifles. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 23 December 2008, a Heirangoithong man, a 38-year-old unmarried Grade-IV High Court employee, was dragged from a tea shop at Heirangoithong and shot dead on the Heinoupok-Sadokpam road by a joint team of Manipur Police Commandos and 32 Assam Rifles, who branded him a PREPAK cadre with a planted pistol and grenade lever. The High Court accepted the District & Sessions Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding, based on eyewitness evidence, that the official encounter version was false. It allowed the brothers' writ petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation, shared equally by the State and 32 Assam Rifles. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror.", "court_quote": "Relying on the above evidence of the witness corroborated by the affidavit of PW No. 4, learned District & Sessions Judge has rendered the above finding. We, therefore, find no justification to differ with the finding arrived at by the learned District & Sessions Judge, Manipur.", "court_quote_para": "4", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Joint commando-AR team held to have killed civilian in fake encounter; Rs 5L shared.", "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": "2014-09-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 18 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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-18.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86008/ningombam-brojen-singh-vs-state-of-manipur/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86008/ningombam-brojen-singh-vs-the-state-of-manipur/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47609784/", "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-09", "chunk-43", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0559", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Lambui Lambi Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Lambui Lambi Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal East", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lambui Lambi", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando (FIR at Porompat PS)", "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Lambui Lambi Man & Anr. v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cril.) Nos. 26 and 27 of 2009 (common judgment)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "L.K. Mohapatra", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2008-10-14", "incident_year": 2008, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Lambui Lambi man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Lambui Lambi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-26.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Manipur High Court records the following account. On the evening of 14 October 2008, cousins a Lambui Lambi man and a Lambui Lambi man went out on a Kinetic Honda and were picked up near LMS Law College; that night TV news showed both killed in an encounter at Lambui Lambi with a planted pistol and revolver. The High Court accepted the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding that both men were killed by Manipur Police Commandos in a fake encounter with no exchange of fire, disbelieving the firing-while-riding story on ballistic and post-mortem evidence. It allowed both widows' petitions and awarded Rs 5,00,000 to each (Rs 10,00,000 total) within four months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On the evening of 14 October 2008, cousins a Lambui Lambi man and a Lambui Lambi man went out on a Kinetic Honda and were picked up near LMS Law College; that night TV news showed both killed in an encounter at Lambui Lambi with a planted pistol and revolver. The High Court accepted the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding that both men were killed by Manipur Police Commandos in a fake encounter with no exchange of fire, disbelieving the firing-while-riding story on ballistic and post-mortem evidence. It allowed both widows' petitions and awarded Rs 5,00,000 to each (Rs 10,00,000 total) within four months.", "court_quote": "On consideration of the evidence placed in course of the enquiry the learned District Judge came to the conclusion that both the deceased persons were killed by the Manipur Police Commandoes in fake encounter at Lambui Lambi and there was no exchange of fire or encounter in between the two deceased persons and the police commandoes.", "court_quote_para": "4", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Two cousins killed in fake encounter at Lambui Lambi; Rs 5L to each widow.", "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": "2014-09-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cril.) Nos. 26 and 27 of 2009 (common judgment)", "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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-26.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-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-022", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0548", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Leimakhong Mapal Man vs The State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Leimakhong Mapal Man vs The State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal East", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Leimakhong Mapal", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Leimakhong Mapal Man vs The State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": "W.P. (Crl.) No. 73 of 2009", "citation": "(2014) 09 MAN CK 0016", "judges": [ "N. Kotiswar Singh", "Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra" ], "judgment_date": "2014-09-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2008-12-28", "incident_year": 2008, "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": null, "rank": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "Manipur Police Commandos with 23 Assam Rifles", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.89, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commandos with 23 Assam Rifles" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 23, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Leimakhong Mapal man, age 23" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86124/soubam-radhe-vs-the-state-of-manipur/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Manipur High Court Division Bench (Justices N. Kotiswar Singh and Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra) held Manipur Police Commandos and 23 Assam Rifles personnel responsible for the 28 December 2008 killing of 23-year-old a Leimakhong Mapal man at Huimei Ching foothill, Imphal East. The youth, abducted with a friend and later found bullet-riddled in the RIMS mortuary, was inferred to have been apprehended by the forces since the alleged encounter was not proved and no unlawful-organisation link was shown. The Court held his Article 21 right violated and awarded Rs 5 lakh constitutional-law compensation shared equally by the State and the Assam Rifles within four months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Manipur High Court Division Bench (Justices N. Kotiswar Singh and Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra) held Manipur Police Commandos and 23 Assam Rifles personnel responsible for the 28 December 2008 killing of 23-year-old a Leimakhong Mapal man at Huimei Ching foothill, Imphal East. The youth, abducted with a friend and later found bullet-riddled in the RIMS mortuary, was inferred to have been apprehended by the forces since the alleged encounter was not proved and no unlawful-organisation link was shown. The Court held his Article 21 right violated and awarded Rs 5 lakh constitutional-law compensation shared equally by the State and the Assam Rifles within four months.", "court_quote": "Accordingly, we do not have any hesitation to hold on the basis of the aforesaid enquiry report that there was no encounter as alleged by the respondents and the petitioner's son and his friend had died an unnatural violent death at the hands of the police and Assam Rifles personnel.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held police commandos+AR responsible for youth's killing; Rs 5L shared 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": "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": "2014-09-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2014) 09 MAN CK 0016", "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/86124/soubam-radhe-vs-the-state-of-manipur/", "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-33" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0265", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1438" ], "display_title": "Imphal Man v. State of Manipur", "display_title_redacted": "Imphal Man v. State of Manipur", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Imphal", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West (OC Imphal Police Station present)", "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Imphal Man v. State of Manipur", "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 446 of 2008", "citation": "(2014) 09 MAN CK 0020", "judges": [ "Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2008-03-29", "incident_year": 2008, "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": null, "unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West", "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": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 34, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Imphal man, age 34" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86128/longjam-shanti-singh-vs-the-statement-of-manipur/", "secondary_sources": [ "http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-073-2008/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86128/longjam-shanti-singh-appellant-hash-the-statement-of-manipur-respondent/", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56ea8c9c607dba38d0b072e2" ], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Manipur High Court held that an Imphal man, a 34-year-old sales executive, was killed in cold blood by Manipur Police Commando personnel at his residence at Keishamthong on 29 March 2008 and not in an encounter, accepting the District Judge's enquiry report. The police version of an exchange of fire was inconsistent with the evidence, which showed he was shot after falling and a pistol planted beside his hand while another commando fired in the air to scare the family. Finding a fake encounter by State police with no encounter between the deceased and the commandos, the court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation payable within four months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Manipur High Court held that an Imphal man, a 34-year-old sales executive, was killed in cold blood by Manipur Police Commando personnel at his residence at Keishamthong on 29 March 2008 and not in an encounter, accepting the District Judge's enquiry report. The police version of an exchange of fire was inconsistent with the evidence, which showed he was shot after falling and a pistol planted beside his hand while another commando fired in the air to scare the family. Finding a fake encounter by State police with no encounter between the deceased and the commandos, the court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation payable within four months.", "court_quote": "This evidence clearly shows that there was no encounter between the deceased and the commandos.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Planted-pistol fake encounter at home; Rs 5 lakh DB award 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": "2014-09-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2014) 09 MAN CK 0020", "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/86128/longjam-shanti-singh-vs-the-statement-of-manipur/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-073-2008/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86128/longjam-shanti-singh-appellant-hash-the-statement-of-manipur-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56ea8c9c607dba38d0b072e2", "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-09", "chunk-47", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0547", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Phoubakchao", "police_station_or_unit": "Mayang Imphal Police Station", "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": "W.P. (Crl.) No. 49 of 2009", "citation": "(2014) 09 MAN CK 0015", "judges": [ "Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2009-03-04", "incident_year": 2009, "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": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "Manipur Police Commandos with 21 Assam Rifles", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Manipur Police Commandos with 21 Assam Rifles" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 12, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Phoubakchao boy, age 12", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 12, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 12-year-old boy" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86123/garamjan-bibi-vs-the-state-of-manipur/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://kanglaonline.in/2014/09/hc-orders-compensation-in-12-year-old-killing-case/" ], "summary": "The Manipur High Court Division Bench (Chief Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh) held Manipur Police Commandos and 21 Assam Rifles personnel responsible for the 4 March 2009 killing of 12-year-old student a 12-year-old boy, dragged from his Phoubakchao home and shot dead in a paddy field with a planted pistol. Disbelieving the retaliatory-killing-of-a-PULF-cadre version in light of the District Judge's inquiry and eyewitnesses, the Court held the death was caused without procedure established by law. It awarded Rs 5 lakh public-law compensation shared equally by the State and the Assam Rifles within four months, with liberty to seek more civilly. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Manipur High Court Division Bench (Chief Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh) held Manipur Police Commandos and 21 Assam Rifles personnel responsible for the 4 March 2009 killing of 12-year-old student, dragged from his Phoubakchao home and shot dead in a paddy field with a planted pistol. Disbelieving the retaliatory-killing-of-a-PULF-cadre version in light of the District Judge's inquiry and eyewitnesses, the Court held the death was caused without procedure established by law. It awarded Rs 5 lakh public-law compensation shared equally by the State and the Assam Rifles within four months, with liberty to seek more civilly.", "court_quote": "Having held that the Manipur Police Commandos and the Assam Rifle personnel were responsible for the death of the petitioner's son, they would be liable for payment of compensation under the public law remedy as the death was caused without following the process established by law.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held police commandos+AR responsible for killing of minor; Rs 5L shared 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": "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": "2014-09-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2014) 09 MAN CK 0015", "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/86123/garamjan-bibi-vs-the-state-of-manipur/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://kanglaonline.in/2014/09/hc-orders-compensation-in-12-year-old-killing-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-33" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0557", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Yen-Kao-Bung, Kameng Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Yen-Kao-Bung, Kameng Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal West", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Yen-kao-bung, Kameng", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West (encounter report at Lamsang PS)", "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Yen-Kao-Bung, Kameng Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 24 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "L.K. Mohapatra", "N. Kotiswar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2008-11-04", "incident_year": 2008, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": 35, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Yen-kao-bung, Kameng man, age 35" } ], "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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-24.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86135/neena-devi-vs-state-of-manipur/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Manipur High Court records the following account. On 4 November 2008, a Yen-kao-bung, Kameng man, 35, telephoned his wife that Manipur Police Commandos had apprehended him at Wahengbam Leikai; that evening TV news showed him killed in an encounter at Yen-kao-bung, Kameng, with a planted grenade, and branded a KCP(MC) militant. The High Court accepted the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding that there was no encounter and held he was killed by the commandos while in their custody under cover of a staged encounter. It allowed the widow's petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation within three months. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 4 November 2008, a Yen-kao-bung, Kameng man, 35, telephoned his wife that Manipur Police Commandos had apprehended him at Wahengbam Leikai; that evening TV news showed him killed in an encounter at Yen-kao-bung, Kameng, with a planted grenade, and branded a KCP(MC) militant. The High Court accepted the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding that there was no encounter and held he was killed by the commandos while in their custody under cover of a staged encounter. It allowed the widow's petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation within three months. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror.", "court_quote": "We, therefore, accept the report submitted by the learned District Judge and hold that the deceased husband of the petitioner was killed by the Manipur Police Commandos while he was in their custody and it was given a colour of encounter.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial killing by commandos given colour of encounter; Rs 5L to widow.", "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": "2014-11-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cril.) No. 24 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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-24.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86135/neena-devi-vs-state-of-manipur/", "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-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-020", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0569", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Imphal Man v. State of Manipur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Imphal Man v. State of Manipur and Others", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Imphal East", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Imphal", "police_station_or_unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal East", "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Imphal Man v. State of Manipur and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Cril.) No. 2 of 2016", "citation": "(2019) 02 MAN CK 0007", "judges": [ "Ramalingam Sudhakar", "Kh. Nobin Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2019-02-13", "date_precision": "month", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2008-03-20", "incident_year": 2008, "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": "Commando personnel", "unit": "Manipur Police Commando, Imphal East", "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": "Commando personnel, Manipur Police Commando, Imphal East" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Imphal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1010451/thokchom-o-roshini-devi-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=529102700000&title=thokchom-o-roshini-devi-vs-state-of-manipur" ], "summary": "The Manipur High Court held that an Imphal man was picked up from his temporary residence at Nagamapal by Manipur Police Commandos on 20 March 2008 without arrest memo and killed in a fake encounter at Kangla Siphai the same day, and awarded his widow Rs 10 lakh compensation payable by the State within six months through the Court Registry. Police claimed a combined commando-39 Assam Rifles gunfight with KYKL letters recovered; the District Judge (Imphal East) inquiry found no Assam Rifles involvement, disbelieved the police witnesses and found no KYKL nexus, concluding a clear fake encounter. The Court accepted the report, held the deceased an ordinary person, and doubled the usual Rs 5 lakh given the decade-long hardship of the widowed mother of three. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Manipur High Court held that an Imphal man was picked up from his temporary residence at Nagamapal by Manipur Police Commandos on 20 March 2008 without arrest memo and killed in a fake encounter at Kangla Siphai the same day, and awarded his widow Rs 10 lakh compensation payable by the State within six months through the Court Registry. Police claimed a combined commando-39 Assam Rifles gunfight with KYKL letters recovered; the District Judge (Imphal East) inquiry found no Assam Rifles involvement, disbelieved the police witnesses and found no KYKL nexus, concluding a clear fake encounter. The Court accepted the report, held the deceased an ordinary person, and doubled the usual Rs 5 lakh given the decade-long hardship of the widowed mother of three.", "court_quote": "This Court is of the view that a fake encounter took place on 20-03-2008 when the present petitioner's husband was killed by the Manipur Police Commandos.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Manipur HC held an Imphal man killed in fake encounter by Police Commandos; Rs 10L compensation via Registry.", "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": "2019-02-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2019) 02 MAN CK 0007", "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": [ "judgment_date", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1010451/thokchom-o-roshini-devi-appellant-hash-state-of-manipur-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=529102700000&title=thokchom-o-roshini-devi-vs-state-of-manipur", "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-47" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-035", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0276", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1481" ], "display_title": "The State of Manipur v. Manipur Police Rifleman", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Manipur v. Manipur Police Rifleman", "state": "Manipur", "district": "Thoubal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lilong", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Manipur High Court", "court_as_verified": "Manipur High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Manipur v. Manipur Police Rifleman", "case_number": "WA Nos. 13 and 14 of 2021", "citation": "(2022) 03 MAN CK 0025", "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar", "Lanusungkum Jamir" ], "judgment_date": "2022-03-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2015-05-19", "incident_year": 2015, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 121", "IPC 121A", "UAPA s.16(1)(b)", "UAPA s.20", "Arms Act s.25(1)(a)", "Arms Act s.25(1B)", "Explosive Substances Act 1908 s.4", "Explosive Substances Act 1908 s.5" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Rifleman", "unit": "4th India Reserve Battalion, Manipur Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Rifleman, 4th India Reserve Battalion, Manipur 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": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82157871/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1119854/pdf/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1119854/state-of-manipur-appellant-hash-yahiya-khan-ors-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Manipur High Court records the following account. Rifleman of the 4th India Reserve Battalion was arrested on 19 May 2015 after investigation showed he had become an active worker of CorCom, a conglomerate of valley-based militant outfits, throwing hand grenades in December 2014 and transporting arms while in uniform. He was dismissed on 25 March 2017 by the Governor under Article 311(2)(c) on a Committee of Advisors' recommendation. A Single Judge set aside the suspension and dismissal on 27 January 2020. The Division Bench allowed the State's writ appeals, holding the Committee's constitution and the Governor's satisfaction valid, and confirmed the dismissal order.", "summary_verified": "Rifleman of the 4th India Reserve Battalion was arrested on 19 May 2015 after investigation showed he had become an active worker of CorCom, a conglomerate of valley-based militant outfits, throwing hand grenades in December 2014 and transporting arms while in uniform. He was dismissed on 25 March 2017 by the Governor under Article 311(2)(c) on a Committee of Advisors' recommendation. A Single Judge set aside the suspension and dismissal on 27 January 2020. The Division Bench allowed the State's writ appeals, holding the Committee's constitution and the Governor's satisfaction valid, and confirmed the dismissal order.", "court_quote": "On the above analysis, we find that the order of dismissal passed against [name withheld] did not merit interference and the learned Judge erred in setting it aside. We accordingly set aside the Judgment & Order dated 27.01.2020 in W.P. (C) No. 249 of 2017. As we have upheld the dismissal order dated 25.03.2017, the question of reinstating [name withheld] in service in terms of the said Judgment & Order no longer arises.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Manipur HC allowed State appeals, set aside Single Judge orders and confirmed Rifleman's Article 311(2)(c) dismissal.", "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": "2022-03-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Manipur High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Manipur High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2022) 03 MAN CK 0025", "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/82157871/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1119854/pdf/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1119854/state-of-manipur-appellant-hash-yahiya-khan-ors-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-29", "chunk-46" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }