{ "state": "Meghalaya", "slug": "meghalaya", "count": 9, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/meghalaya", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-2005-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0261", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "East Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shillong", "police_station_or_unit": "Laitumkhrah Police Beat House", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2007(1) GLT 228", "judges": [ "A. Hazarika" ], "judgment_date": "2005-08-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2005, "incident_date": "2002-04-15", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "UB Constable (UBC 747)", "unit": "Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.73, "jev_p_culpable": 0.28, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "UB Constable (UBC 747), Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.54, "jev_p_culpable": 0.59, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 23, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shillong man, age 23" } ], "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/1287374/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that 23-year-old businessman [name withheld], brutally assaulted by on-duty police at the Rangali Bihu venue on the night of 15-04-2002 and taken to the Laitumkhrah Beat House, died of those injuries on 18-04-2002. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem report, the court rejected the SP's cover-up affidavit based on falsehood and held the State failed to discharge its burden. Finding an Article 21 violation, it awarded another Rs 1.5 lakh over the Rs 1 lakh ex gratia already paid (Rs 2.5 lakh total), payable within two months. A murder case (Laitumkhrah PS Case 25(4)02 under Section 302 IPC) was already registered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that 23-year-old businessman [name withheld], brutally assaulted by on-duty police at the Rangali Bihu venue on the night of 15-04-2002 and taken to the Laitumkhrah Beat House, died of those injuries on 18-04-2002. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem report, the court rejected the SP's cover-up affidavit based on falsehood and held the State failed to discharge its burden. Finding an Article 21 violation, it awarded another Rs 1.5 lakh over the Rs 1 lakh ex gratia already paid (Rs 2.5 lakh total), payable within two months. A murder case (Laitumkhrah PS Case 25(4)02 under Section 302 IPC) was already registered.", "court_quote": "The affidavit filed by the superintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills is not encouraging. Rather it has tried to cover up the story based on falsehood.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held police atrocity killed a Shillong man; addl Rs 1.5L (Rs 2.5L total with ex gratia).", "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": "2005-08-05", "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 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2007(1) GLT 228", "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", "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1287374/", "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-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0260", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "West Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mairang", "police_station_or_unit": "Mairang Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864", "judges": [ "T. Vaiphei" ], "judgment_date": "2007-06-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1998-09-02", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Mairang Police Station", "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": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Mairang Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 27, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mairang man, age 27" } ], "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/496845/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Mairang man, 27, handed by the village durbar to Mairang police on 02-09-1998 on a cattle-theft suspicion, died of custodial violence, rejecting the State's malaria-death claim. The court relied on the District Judge's enquiry which found foul play, contradictory medical reports and remand violations, and found a cover-up in collusion with medical officers. Holding the State strictly liable under Articles 21/226, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation to the widow within two months. It directed an enquiry to identify the police personnel involved, with recovery of the compensation from them, leaving civil remedies open. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Mairang man, 27, handed by the village durbar to Mairang police on 02-09-1998 on a cattle-theft suspicion, died of custodial violence, rejecting the State's malaria-death claim. The court relied on the District Judge's enquiry which found foul play, contradictory medical reports and remand violations, and found a cover-up in collusion with medical officers. Holding the State strictly liable under Articles 21/226, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation to the widow within two months. It directed an enquiry to identify the police personnel involved, with recovery of the compensation from them, leaving civil remedies open.", "court_quote": "The State-respondents shall also hold an enquiry to find out the police personnel involved in the custodial death of the deceased", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC held custodial violence killed a Mairang man; Rs 3L + enquiry to fix responsibility.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial death", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2007-06-29", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864", "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", "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/496845/", "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-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0865", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Langpih Man and Others vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Langpih Man and Others vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "West Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Langpih", "police_station_or_unit": "4th Assam Police Battalion, Lampi Border Outposts (under Boko PS, Kamrup, Assam)", "court": "Meghalaya High Court", "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Langpih Man and Others vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) Nos. 144/2010, 145/2010, 146/2010 and 147/2010", "citation": "AIR 2015 Meghalaya 12", "judges": [ "P.C. Pant", "T. Nandakumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2010-05-14", "incident_year": 2010, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Langpih man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Langpih man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Langpih man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Langpih man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 4, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 800000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/90203921/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. On 14.05.2010, weekly market day at Langpih on the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam Police personnel fired on civilians, killing a Langpih man, a Langpih man, a Langpih man and a Langpih man and injuring several others; Assam contended a mob had attacked the border outpost. The States of Assam and Meghalaya had each paid Rs. 3 lakh ex-gratia per deceased during the pendency of the writ petitions. The Division Bench held the four deaths in Assam Police firing admitted, fixed strict public-law liability on the State of Assam for the Article 21 violation, and ordered a further Rs. 2 lakh per widow (Rs. 8 lakh total), payable by the State of Assam and the DGP Assam within three months, without prejudice to other legal remedies. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 14.05.2010, weekly market day at Langpih on the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam Police personnel fired on civilians, killing a Langpih man, a Langpih man, a Langpih man and a Langpih man and injuring several others; Assam contended a mob had attacked the border outpost. The States of Assam and Meghalaya had each paid Rs. 3 lakh ex-gratia per deceased during the pendency of the writ petitions. The Division Bench held the four deaths in Assam Police firing admitted, fixed strict public-law liability on the State of Assam for the Article 21 violation, and ordered a further Rs. 2 lakh per widow (Rs. 8 lakh total), payable by the State of Assam and the DGP Assam within three months, without prejudice to other legal remedies.", "court_quote": "From the above discussions, we are of the considered view that the writ petitions of this nature for a direction to pay monetary compensation for the deprivation of the fundamental rights of the citizen and for the death of citizen as a result of Police firing is maintainable inasmuch as a remedy for payment of monetary compensation is available in public law based on strict liability for contravention of the fundamental rights to which the principle of sovereign immunity does not apply, even though it may be available as a defence in private law in an action based on tort. For deciding the amount of compensation to be paid under the public law realm, we have given our anxious consideration to the age of the said four persons and their earnings which are mentioned in the writ petitions and we are of the considered view that each of the writ petitioners should be paid further amount of Rs.2 lakhs as compensation over and above, the amount of 6 lakhs which are already been received by each of the petioners as ex-gratia.", "court_quote_para": "21-22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Four deaths in Assam Police firing admitted; Rs. 2L further compensation per widow ordered.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "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": "2014-01-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Meghalaya High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Meghalaya High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 800,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2015 Meghalaya 12", "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/90203921/", "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-70" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-43-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0864", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shillong Man vs The State of Meghalaya and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Shillong Man vs The State of Meghalaya and Others", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "East Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shillong", "police_station_or_unit": "Traffic Branch, Madanriting Police Station, Shillong", "court": "Meghalaya High Court", "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shillong Man vs The State of Meghalaya and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 66/2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Nandakumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-03-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2011-09-09", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "UBC Constable No. 1760", "unit": "Traffic Branch, Madanriting Police Station, East Khasi Hills", "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": "UBC Constable No. 1760, Traffic Branch, Madanriting Police Station, East Khasi Hills" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shillong man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 40000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/40093995/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. Taxi driver [name withheld] was intercepted near Nongthymmai on 09.09.2011, taken to Madanriting Traffic Branch over an alleged traffic offence, and assaulted by UBC [name withheld] when he could produce only Rs. 170 of the demanded fine, suffering a bleeding lacerated injury to his left eye. A departmental proceeding had already found the constable guilty beyond any shred of doubt and imposed censure. The High Court held the assault an established infringement of the indefeasible right under Article 21 and awarded Rs. 40,000 as exemplary damages payable jointly or severally by the State, DGP and SP within 40 days. It directed recovery of Rs. 10,000 from the respondent constable salary after payment to the petitioner. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Taxi driver [name withheld] was intercepted near Nongthymmai on 09.09.2011, taken to Madanriting Traffic Branch over an alleged traffic offence, and assaulted by UBC [name withheld] when he could produce only Rs. 170 of the demanded fine, suffering a bleeding lacerated injury to his left eye. A departmental proceeding had already found the constable guilty beyond any shred of doubt and imposed censure. The High Court held the assault an established infringement of the indefeasible right under Article 21 and awarded Rs. 40,000 as exemplary damages payable jointly or severally by the State, DGP and SP within 40 days. It directed recovery of Rs. 10,000 from the respondent constable salary after payment to the petitioner.", "court_quote": "In the given case, this Court is of the considered view that the relief of monetary compensation, as exemplary damages for established infringement of the indefeasible right of the petitioner guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution is required to be granted to the petitioner as such remedy is available in public law and the purpose of public law is not only to civilize public power but also to assure the citizen that they live under a legal system which aims to protect their interests and preserve their rights.", "court_quote_para": "32", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Assault by traffic constable proved; Rs. 40,000 exemplary compensation with recovery from salary.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2014-03-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Meghalaya High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Meghalaya High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 40,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "WP(C) No. 66/2012", "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/40093995/", "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-70" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-43-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0262", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "West Garo Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Tura", "police_station_or_unit": "Tura Police Station", "court": "Meghalaya High Court", "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) No. 213 of 2014", "citation": "2018 Cri LJ 2885", "judges": [ "Tarun Agarwala", "S.R. Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2018-02-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2014-05-12", "incident_year": 2014, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 18, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Tura man, age 18" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173666772/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Meghalaya High Court (Division Bench) held that 18-year-old Class XII student, detained from the evening of 12-05-2014 and produced only on 14-05-2014, was beaten and assaulted by Tura police personnel and died on 20-05-2014 of injuries caused in police detention. The court relied on the CID investigation which disbelieved the police version and charge-sheeted police personnel, and found gross human-rights violation. Enhancing the State's deposited Rs 10 lakh, it awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to the mother. It directed departmental inquiries against the charge-sheeted policemen and the SP, proceedings against negligent doctors, scrutiny of the remand magistrate, and conclusion of the criminal trial within a year. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Meghalaya High Court (Division Bench) held that 18-year-old Class XII student, detained from the evening of 12-05-2014 and produced only on 14-05-2014, was beaten and assaulted by Tura police personnel and died on 20-05-2014 of injuries caused in police detention. The court relied on the CID investigation which disbelieved the police version and charge-sheeted police personnel, and found gross human-rights violation. Enhancing the State's deposited Rs 10 lakh, it awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to the mother. It directed departmental inquiries against the charge-sheeted policemen and the SP, proceedings against negligent doctors, scrutiny of the remand magistrate, and conclusion of the criminal trial within a year.", "court_quote": "A young life has been snuffed out on account of police brutality", "court_quote_para": "n/a — original judgment unnumbered; quote at p.13 of official PDF", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Meghalaya HC (DB) held police brutality killed Balsan Marak; Rs 15L + inquiries. Incident dated 12-05-2014 (detention start).", "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": "2018-02-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Meghalaya High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Meghalaya High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2018 Cri LJ 2885", "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": [ "officers", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173666772/", "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-09", "chunk-r06" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-042", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0271", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1436" ], "display_title": "Meghalaya Police personnel v. State of Meghalaya & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Meghalaya Police personnel v. State of Meghalaya & Ors.", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Meghalaya High Court", "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Meghalaya Police personnel v. State of Meghalaya & Ors.", "case_number": "MC (WA) No. 1 of 2022 in WA No. 1 of 2022", "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (Meg) 3", "judges": [ "Sanjib Banerjee", "W. Diengdoh" ], "judgment_date": "2022-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2016-01-15", "incident_year": 2016, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 311(2)(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Meghalaya Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Meghalaya 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/sanjeeb-ch-marak-vs-state-of-meghalaya-ors-meghalaya-high-corut-409658.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/meghalaya-police-member-passing-info-extremist-outfit-high-court-upholds-removal-inquiry-191873", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/spirit-of-article-3112b-complied-with-meghalaya-high-court-upholds-dismissal-of-police-officer-with-terror-links-without-inquiry" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. [name withheld] of the Meghalaya police was summarily dismissed on 15 January 2016 after a confidential report found he had passed information about police operations and movements to the banned Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) outfit, at a time when the outfit's violence had killed several police personnel; inquiry was dispensed with under Article 311(2)(b). His departmental appeal was rejected in October 2019 and a Single Judge upheld the dismissal in December 2021. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W. Diengdoh dismissed his writ appeal, holding that when a policeman betrays his force to an outlawed outfit the police were combating, inquiry could justifiably be held not reasonably practicable, and that reasons obvious and apparent satisfy the spirit of Article 311(2)(b).", "summary_verified": "[name withheld] of the Meghalaya police was summarily dismissed on 15 January 2016 after a confidential report found he had passed information about police operations and movements to the banned Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) outfit, at a time when the outfit's violence had killed several police personnel; inquiry was dispensed with under Article 311(2)(b). His departmental appeal was rejected in October 2019 and a Single Judge upheld the dismissal in December 2021. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W. Diengdoh dismissed his writ appeal, holding that when a policeman betrays his force to an outlawed outfit the police were combating, inquiry could justifiably be held not reasonably practicable, and that reasons obvious and apparent satisfy the spirit of Article 311(2)(b).", "court_quote": "When a member of the police force was found betraying his own force and supplying information to an extremist outfit that the police organisation was trying to deal with, it was justifiable on the part of the disciplinary authority to consider it to be not reasonably practicable to afford the writ petitioner an opportunity of dealing with the charge against him in the course of any inquiry.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Meghalaya HC dismissed appeal, upholding Art.311(2)(b) dismissal of policeman who fed GNLA; order 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": "2022-02-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Meghalaya High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Meghalaya High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2022 LiveLaw (Meg) 3", "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/sanjeeb-ch-marak-vs-state-of-meghalaya-ors-meghalaya-high-corut-409658.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/meghalaya-police-member-passing-info-extremist-outfit-high-court-upholds-removal-inquiry-191873", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/spirit-of-article-3112b-complied-with-meghalaya-high-court-upholds-dismissal-of-police-officer-with-terror-links-without-inquiry", "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-41" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTHE-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0477", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Nurul Islam v. State of Meghalaya", "display_title_redacted": "Nurul Islam v. State of Meghalaya", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "South West Garo Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ampati", "police_station_or_unit": "Ampati PS", "court": "Meghalaya High Court", "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Nurul Islam v. State of Meghalaya", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 12 of 2022", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjib Banerjee", "W. Diengdoh" ], "judgment_date": "2023-03-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2013-03-13", "incident_year": 2013, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 342", "IPC 354", "IPC 376(2)(i)", "IPC 506", "POCSO s.6", "POCSO s.10" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Nurul Islam", "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Ampati PS", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Nurul Islam", "display": "Nurul Islam (Officer-in-Charge)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 13, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ampati girl, age 13" }, { "age": 17, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ampati girl, age 17" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134012635/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/meghalaya-high-court-cop-rape-minors-loose-character-survivors-porstitution-conviction-upheld-224657" ], "summary": "The Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal of OC Ampati PS Nurul Islam, upholding his POCSO court conviction for detaining two minor sisters aged 13 and 17 at the station on 13 March 2013 and molesting them in his chamber, and raping the elder sister at her home on 31 March 2013. The Court rejected the defence that the survivors' alleged prostitution discredited them and that their age was unproved, holding there could be no reasonable doubt as to culpability. It found the March 2022 conviction and sentence called for no interference. The appeal was dismissed without touching the trial court's sentence.", "summary_verified": "The Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal of OC Ampati PS Nurul Islam, upholding his POCSO court conviction for detaining two minor sisters aged 13 and 17 at the station on 13 March 2013 and molesting them in his chamber, and raping the elder sister at her home on 31 March 2013. The Court rejected the defence that the survivors' alleged prostitution discredited them and that their age was unproved, holding there could be no reasonable doubt as to culpability. It found the March 2022 conviction and sentence called for no interference. The appeal was dismissed without touching the trial court's sentence.", "court_quote": "This is a ghastly case of a policeman, an officer-in-charge of a police station no less, molesting and raping girl children with gay abandon.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; OC Ampati's POCSO conviction upheld without interference.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Meghalaya High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Meghalaya High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A. No. 12 of 2022", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2023-03-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Meghalaya High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.A. No. 12 of 2022", "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/134012635/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/meghalaya-high-court-cop-rape-minors-loose-character-survivors-porstitution-conviction-upheld-224657", "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-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-006", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0079", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1385", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Meghalaya Police BN Constable vs State of Meghalaya and Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Meghalaya Police BN Constable vs State of Meghalaya and Ors", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "East Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "1st Battalion, Meghalaya Police, Mawiong, Shillong", "court": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong", "bench": null, "case_title": "Meghalaya Police BN Constable vs State of Meghalaya and Ors", "case_number": "W.A. No. 70 of 2024 (arising from WP(C) No. 309 of 2024)", "citation": "2025:MLHC:236-DB", "judges": [ "H. S. Thangkhiew", "B. Bhattacharjee" ], "judgment_date": "2025-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2020-12-15", "incident_year": 2020, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "BN Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "1st Battalion, Meghalaya Police, Mawiong", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "BN Constable, 1st Battalion, Meghalaya Police, Mawiong" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/141431524/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court Division Bench upheld the dismissal of a battalion constable for unauthorized absence from duty. The High Court held that the misconduct of absence from General Roll Call without leave stood proved in the departmental inquiry. The High Court found no procedural unfairness where the constable offered no defence witnesses and declined questioning opportunities. The High Court dismissed the writ appeal, leaving the dismissal and the Single Judge's rejection of the challenge intact.", "summary_verified": "The High Court Division Bench upheld the dismissal of a battalion constable for unauthorized absence from duty. The High Court held that the misconduct of absence from General Roll Call without leave stood proved in the departmental inquiry. The High Court found no procedural unfairness where the constable offered no defence witnesses and declined questioning opportunities. The High Court dismissed the writ appeal, leaving the dismissal and the Single Judge's rejection of the challenge intact.", "court_quote": "Resultantly, the writ appeal stands dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "operative part of judgment dated 27.03.2025", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2025-03-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "2025:MLHC:236-DB", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/141431524/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "swarm-verify-cop-ml-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-ml-hc-1", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0095", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1384", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dr [name withheld] vs State of Meghalaya & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Dr [name withheld] vs State of Meghalaya & Ors", "state": "Meghalaya", "district": "East Khasi Hills", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Mawlai Police Station (complaints received via Mawkynroh Police Outpost)", "court": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dr [name withheld] vs State of Meghalaya & Ors", "case_number": "Crl. Petn. No. 91 of 2026", "citation": "2026:MLHC:801", "judges": [ "Revati Mohite Dere" ], "judgment_date": "2026-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-05-06", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "BNS 126(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "unspecified", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Mawlai Police Station / Mawkynroh Police Outpost, East Khasi Hills", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "unspecified, Mawlai Police Station / Mawkynroh Police Outpost, East Khasi Hills" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/142551119/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/meghalaya-high-court/meghalaya-high-court-police-apply-mind-before-registering-fir-545751" ], "summary": "The High Court quashed two identically worded FIRs registered on the same day against a professor. The High Court held that no cognizable offence was disclosed and that duplicate FIRs on the same allegations cannot stand. The High Court strongly deprecated the police practice of registering FIRs under appropriate sections without first applying mind to the complaint. The High Court directed that any future complaints by the two complainants against law teachers be routed through the Superintendents of Police before action.", "summary_verified": "The High Court quashed two identically worded FIRs registered on the same day against a professor. The High Court held that no cognizable offence was disclosed and that duplicate FIRs on the same allegations cannot stand. The High Court strongly deprecated the police practice of registering FIRs under appropriate sections without first applying mind to the complaint. The High Court directed that any future complaints by the two complainants against law teachers be routed through the Superintendents of Police before action.", "court_quote": "This practice to direct registration of FIRs \"under appropriate sections\" is strongly deprecated.", "court_quote_para": "operative part of judgment dated 29.07.2026", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-07-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2026:MLHC:801", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/142551119/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/meghalaya-high-court/meghalaya-high-court-police-apply-mind-before-registering-fir-545751", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "swarm-verify-cop-ml-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-ml-hc-0", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }