{ "state": "Tripura", "slug": "tripura", "count": 7, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/tripura", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1992-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0930", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Agartala Man vs State of Tripura", "display_title_redacted": "Agartala Man vs State of Tripura", "state": "Tripura", "district": "West Tripura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agartala", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Agartala", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Agartala", "case_title": "Agartala Man vs State of Tripura", "case_number": "F.A. No. 5 of 1983 (from Money Suit No. 6 of 1978)", "citation": "1993 (2) GLR 214; 1994 ACJ 858", "judges": [ "S.K. Homchaudhuri", "N.G. Das" ], "judgment_date": "1992-01-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1992, "incident_date": "1976-04-26", "incident_year": 1976, "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 379", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 300" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Agartala", "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, Kotwali Police Station, Agartala" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": 18, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Agartala man, age 18" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134538/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/428376/ranubala-sutradhar-appellant-hash-state-of-tripura-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court allowed the first appeal of Ranubala Sutradhar and set aside the trial court's dismissal of her damages suit. The court recorded that her 18-year-old son [name withheld], arrested for theft on the night of 25.04.1976, was found dead in the Kotwali (Agartala) lock-up on the morning of 26.04.1976. It held the death in custody was attributable to the gross negligence of the Kotwali police officials and that Kasturilal's sovereign-immunity defence could not defeat a damages claim for an Article 21 violation. The suit was decreed for Rs 1 lakh with costs throughout, payable within two months, with 15% p.a. interest on default. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court allowed the first appeal of Ranubala Sutradhar and set aside the trial court's dismissal of her damages suit. The court recorded that her 18-year-old son [name withheld], arrested for theft on the night of 25.04.1976, was found dead in the Kotwali (Agartala) lock-up on the morning of 26.04.1976. It held the death in custody was attributable to the gross negligence of the Kotwali police officials and that Kasturilal's sovereign-immunity defence could not defeat a damages claim for an Article 21 violation. The suit was decreed for Rs 1 lakh with costs throughout, payable within two months, with 15% p.a. interest on default.", "court_quote": "In the instant case the claim for damages has arisen due to deprivation of life of the son of the plaintiff in the police custody due to gross negligence of the State machinery and the deceased has been deprived of his life in flagrant violation of fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: appeal allowed, suit decreed Rs 1L; Division Bench F.A. No. 5/1983 (agent said Single Bench).", "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": "1992-01-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1993 (2) GLR 214; 1994 ACJ 858", "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/134538/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/428376/ranubala-sutradhar-appellant-hash-state-of-tripura-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": "GAP2-41-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0931", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Amarpur To Udaipur Man vs State of Tripura", "display_title_redacted": "Amarpur To Udaipur Man vs State of Tripura", "state": "Tripura", "district": "Gomati", "district_at_time": "South Tripura", "city_town": "Amarpur to Udaipur", "police_station_or_unit": "Police escort team, South Tripura", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Amarpur To Udaipur Man vs State of Tripura", "case_number": "Civil Rule No. 3 (HC) of 1993", "citation": "(1997) 1 GLJ 382; (1997) 1 GLT 555", "judges": [ "A.K. Patnaik", "V.K. Khanna" ], "judgment_date": "1997-02-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1993-01-19", "incident_year": 1993, "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": [ "National Security Act 1980", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Tripura Police (escort team)", "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": "Inspector of Police, Tripura Police (escort team)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Tripura Police (escort team)", "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": "Constable, Tripura Police (escort team)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Tripura Police (escort team)", "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": "Constable, Tripura Police (escort team)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Tripura Police (escort team)", "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": "Constable, Tripura Police (escort team)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Tripura Police (escort team)", "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": "Constable, Tripura Police (escort team)" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Amarpur to Udaipur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/425661/arun-chandra-bhawmik-appellant-hash-state-of-tripura-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b494b4607dba348f00e76a" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court Division Bench disposed of a writ petition registered on an advocate's fax complaint about NSA detenu [name withheld], an Amarpur advocate. The court accepted the judicial-enquiry finding that an Amarpur to Udaipur man was mercilessly beaten by his police escort led by Inspector en route from Amarpur to Udaipur on 19.01.1993, sustaining grievous injuries including a fractured right hand. It held the assault in police custody violated Article 21 and that the State could not plead sovereign immunity. The State was ordered to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation (over treatment costs already reimbursed) and to hold a further enquiry within three months into the roles of the SP, DM and BDO, with disciplinary proceedings and salary-recovery on an adverse finding. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court Division Bench disposed of a writ petition registered on an advocate's fax complaint about NSA detenu [name withheld], an Amarpur advocate. The court accepted the judicial-enquiry finding that an Amarpur to Udaipur man was mercilessly beaten by his police escort led by Inspector en route from Amarpur to Udaipur on 19.01.1993, sustaining grievous injuries including a fractured right hand. It held the assault in police custody violated Article 21 and that the State could not plead sovereign immunity. The State was ordered to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation (over treatment costs already reimbursed) and to hold a further enquiry within three months into the roles of the SP, DM and BDO, with disciplinary proceedings and salary-recovery on an adverse finding.", "court_quote": "There is no law which authorised the merciless assault on an Amarpur to Udaipur man while he was in police custody and such assault was therefore in clear violation of his fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution for which Sri Mazumdar was entitled to compensation from the State and the State cannot take the defence of soveriegn immunity against such claim of compensation.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: Rs 1L compensation for custodial assault; further enquiry 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": "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": "1997-02-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gauhati High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1997) 1 GLJ 382; (1997) 1 GLT 555", "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/425661/arun-chandra-bhawmik-appellant-hash-state-of-tripura-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b494b4607dba348f00e76a", "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": "GAP2-41-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2005-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0267", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Tripura and Ors. vs Smt. Narayani S.", "display_title_redacted": "State of Tripura and Ors. vs Smt. Narayani S.", "state": "Tripura", "district": "Dhalai", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ambassa", "police_station_or_unit": "Ambassa Police Station", "court": "Gauhati High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court", "bench": "Agartala", "case_title": "State of Tripura and Ors. vs Smt. Narayani S.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2005 Cri LJ 4239", "judges": [ "T. Vaiphei", "B.P. Katakey" ], "judgment_date": "2005-09-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2005, "incident_date": "1991-07-28", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 16, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ambassa boy, age 16", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 16, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 16-year-old boy" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 250000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1053996/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1500820/" ], "summary": "The Gauhati High Court (Agartala Division Bench) dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for the custodial death of 16-year-old a 16-year-old boy, affirming single judge W.A. Shishak's 23-06-1999 order in Civil Rule 482/1998. The court held he was subjected to brutal police torture in Ambassa custody after arrest on 28-07-1991 in a theft case (PS Case 9(7)/91), vindicated by ante-mortem injuries in the post-mortem, jail sick-book entries and his complaint to the Magistrate, dying on 10-08-1991 with no timely medical aid. Holding the State liable for the constitutional tort under Article 21, it directed payment of the Rs 2 lakh balance within two months (Rs 50,000 already paid), recoverable from erring officials, with Rs 5,000 costs for the meritless appeal.", "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court (Agartala Division Bench) dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for the custodial death of 16-year-old Krishna Sharma, affirming single judge W.A. Shishak's 23-06-1999 order in Civil Rule 482/1998. The court held he was subjected to brutal police torture in Ambassa custody after arrest on 28-07-1991 in a theft case (PS Case 9(7)/91), vindicated by ante-mortem injuries in the post-mortem, jail sick-book entries and his complaint to the Magistrate, dying on 10-08-1991 with no timely medical aid. Holding the State liable for the constitutional tort under Article 21, it directed payment of the Rs 2 lakh balance within two months (Rs 50,000 already paid), recoverable from erring officials, with Rs 5,000 costs for the meritless appeal.", "court_quote": "The torture in the police custody, as held above, is also violative of the fundamental right of the detenue under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Agartala DB) upheld Rs 2.5L for custodial death of minor corrected to custodial_death.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial death", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2005-09-01", "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 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2005 Cri LJ 4239", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para", "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1053996/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1500820/", "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": "NORTHE-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0021", "status": "overturned", "merged_id": "CWC-1002", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Tripura", "district": "West Tripura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agartala", "police_station_or_unit": "B/11 Battalion, CRPF, Agartala", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 18705 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Prabhat Kumar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2017-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1999-11-01", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "CRPF Act 1949 s.11(1)", "CRPF Rules 1955 r.27(a)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "B/11 Battalion, CRPF", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, B/11 Battalion, CRPF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158309745/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court (Prabhat Kumar Jha J.) on 26 April 2017 dismissed the writ petition of CRPF Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted at Agartala he reported intoxicated for medical examination on 1 November 1999, disobeyed orderly duty, absented from barracks without permission and abused Deputy Commandant M.K. Sinha. The court held dismissal under Section 11(1) of the CRPF Act read with Rule 27 was competent without a Sections 9/10 prosecution, following the Supreme Court in Ghulam Mohd. Bhat, and that the enquiry suffered no procedural illegality. Later proceedings: on 25 February 2023, the Patna High Court set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, was consequently sustained.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Prabhat Kumar Jha J.) on 26 April 2017 dismissed the writ petition of CRPF Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted at Agartala he reported intoxicated for medical examination on 1 November 1999, disobeyed orderly duty, absented from barracks without permission and abused Deputy Commandant M.K. Sinha. The court held dismissal under Section 11(1) of the CRPF Act read with Rule 27 was competent without a Sections 9/10 prosecution, following the Supreme Court in Ghulam Mohd. Bhat, and that the enquiry suffered no procedural illegality. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, was consequently sustained.", "court_quote": "Therefore, I find that on account of non-appointment of presenting officer, although there is no rule for appointing presenting officer, no prejudice was caused to the petitioner and the dismissal of the petitioner does not suffer from any illegality.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld dismissal of CRPF constable for intoxication and disobedience at Agartala.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2017-04-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "C.W.J.C. No. 18705 of 2008", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2023-02-25", "action_type": "Order set aside", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "Later proceedings: on 25 February 2023, the Patna High Court set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Conviction not standing", "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157215898/", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Patna High Court", "date": "2023-02-25", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157215898/", "outcome": "conviction_set_aside" } ], "final_outcome_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157215898/", "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/158309745/", "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-84" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0852", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0933" ], "display_title": "Sonamura Man and Others vs State of Tripura and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Sonamura Man and Others vs State of Tripura and Others", "state": "Tripura", "district": "Sepahijala", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sonamura (Balardhepa)", "police_station_or_unit": "Sonamura Police Station", "court": "Tripura High Court", "court_as_verified": "Tripura High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sonamura Man and Others vs State of Tripura and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 797 of 2021", "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (Trip) 14", "judges": [ "Indrajit Mahanty", "S.G. Chattopadhyay" ], "judgment_date": "2022-06-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2021-09-14", "incident_year": 2021, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Sonamura Police Station (arresting party and lock-up staff)", "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, Sonamura Police Station (arresting party and lock-up staff)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 27, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sonamura man, age 27" } ], "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://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/rasheda-khatun-and-others-v-state-of-tripura-and-others-tripura-hc-423139.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://maktoobmedia.com/india/custodial-death-tripura-hc-orders-%e2%82%b910-lakh-compensation-for-muslim-youths-family/", "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/rasheda-khatun-and-others-v-state-of-tripura-and-others-tripura-hc-423139.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/custodial-death-tripura-high-court-orders-compensation-for-family-members-27year-old-victim-202216" ], "summary": "The Tripura High Court (Division Bench) held that 27-year-old a Sonamura man @ a Sonamura man died of custodial torture in the Sonamura police lock-up in the night between 14-09-2021 and 15-09-2021. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem showing fresh ante-mortem injuries, the court rejected the State's 'fell while fleeing' version as suspicious and held custodial violence could not be brushed aside. It directed the State to deposit Rs 10 lakh with the Registry within four weeks, in equal shares for the widow, three minor children and mother (children's shares in term deposits). It clarified the observations would not bear on any prosecution in connection with the incident. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Tripura High Court (Division Bench) held that 27-year-old a Sonamura man @ a Sonamura man died of custodial torture in the Sonamura police lock-up in the night between 14-09-2021 and 15-09-2021. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem showing fresh ante-mortem injuries, the court rejected the State's 'fell while fleeing' version as suspicious and held custodial violence could not be brushed aside. It directed the State to deposit Rs 10 lakh with the Registry within four weeks, in equal shares for the widow, three minor children and mother (children's shares in term deposits). It clarified the observations would not bear on any prosecution in connection with the incident.", "court_quote": "In these highly suspicious facts and circumstances of the case custodial violence on the deceased, as alleged, cannot be brushed aside.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Tripura HC (DB) held custodial torture killed a Sonamura man in Sonamura lockup; Rs 10L in equal shares.", "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": "2022-06-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Tripura High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Tripura 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": "2022 LiveLaw (Trip) 14", "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": [ "sections" ] }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2022-0030 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-25", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/rasheda-khatun-and-others-v-state-of-tripura-and-others-tripura-hc-423139.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://maktoobmedia.com/india/custodial-death-tripura-hc-orders-%e2%82%b910-lakh-compensation-for-muslim-youths-family/", "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": "NORTHE-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0274", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0572" ], "display_title": "Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others", "state": "Tripura", "district": "West Tripura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agartala", "police_station_or_unit": "GB TOP, Agartala", "court": "Tripura High Court", "court_as_verified": "Tripura High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) (PIL) No. 25 of 2021", "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635", "judges": [ "Indrajit Mahanty", "S.G. Chattopadhyay" ], "judgment_date": "2022-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2021-10-26", "incident_year": 2021, "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" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 28, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Agartala woman, age 28" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 250000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/tripura-high-court-grants-25lakh-compensation-28yrold-woman-tortured-maltreated-police-custody-210213", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32209059/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Tripura High Court records the following account. A Division Bench took suo motu PIL on a newspaper report that a 28-year-old woman called for interrogation in an unverified theft complaint was beaten in the GB TOP lockup on 26 October 2021 without any arrest or case. Rejecting the State's denial, the court held on medical evidence of abrasions on both buttocks and hospital admission that she was detained for a considerable period for interrogation, deprived of D.K. Basu safeguards, and tortured and maltreated in police custody. It directed the State to pay Rs 2.5 lakh compensation through the Court Registry within one month and directed the DGP to ensure D.K. Basu compliance. The court clarified its observations would not affect any prosecution. No individual officer is named in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench took suo motu PIL on a newspaper report that a 28-year-old woman called for interrogation in an unverified theft complaint was beaten in the GB TOP lockup on 26 October 2021 without any arrest or case. Rejecting the State's denial, the court held on medical evidence of abrasions on both buttocks and hospital admission that she was detained for a considerable period for interrogation, deprived of D.K. Basu safeguards, and tortured and maltreated in police custody. It directed the State to pay Rs 2.5 lakh compensation through the Court Registry within one month and directed the DGP to ensure D.K. Basu compliance. The court clarified its observations would not affect any prosecution. No individual officer is named in the judgment.", "court_quote": "But, apparently, she was deprived of those safeguards and she was tortured and maltreated in police custody.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 2.5 lakh for custodial torture of woman; D.K. Basu compliance directed.", "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": "2022-09-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Tripura High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Tripura High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635", "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/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/tripura-high-court-grants-25lakh-compensation-28yrold-woman-tortured-maltreated-police-custody-210213", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32209059/", "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-31" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-063", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0272", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Konaban Police Rifleman vs State of Tripura", "display_title_redacted": "Konaban Police Rifleman vs State of Tripura", "state": "Tripura", "district": "Sepahijala", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Konaban", "police_station_or_unit": "5th Bn Tripura State Rifles (IR-I), Konaban camp", "court": "Tripura High Court", "court_as_verified": "Tripura High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Konaban Police Rifleman vs State of Tripura", "case_number": "Crl.A.(J) No. 22 of 2024", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Amarnath Goud", "Biswajit Palit" ], "judgment_date": "2025-06-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2021-12-04", "incident_year": 2021, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Rifleman", "unit": "5th Bn Tripura State Rifles", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Rifleman, 5th Bn Tripura State Rifles" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Konaban man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Konaban man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://rawlaw.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Sri-Sukanta-Das.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://tripurachronicle.in/local-news/tsr-constable-gets-life-term-for-killing-two-colleagues-in-2021/" ], "summary": "The Tripura High Court dismissed the appeal of TSR Rifleman and affirmed his conviction under Section 302 IPC and sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life with a Rs 50,000 fine for shooting dead two colleagues at Konaban camp on 4 December 2021. The Court held the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that he deliberately opened fire with his service weapon after being denied leave, rejecting the defence theory of an accidental discharge during a scuffle as an afterthought. It held that mere denial of leave could not constitute grave or sudden provocation for shooting superior officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Tripura High Court dismissed the appeal of TSR Rifleman and affirmed his conviction under Section 302 IPC and sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life with a Rs 50,000 fine for shooting dead two colleagues at Konaban camp on 4 December 2021. The Court held the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that he deliberately opened fire with his service weapon after being denied leave, rejecting the defence theory of an accidental discharge during a scuffle as an afterthought. It held that mere denial of leave could not constitute grave or sudden provocation for shooting superior officers.", "court_quote": "Accordingly, this Court holds that the accused-appellant is guilty of the offence as charged. Accordingly the appeal is liable to be dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "43", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Tripura HC DB dismissed the appeal and affirmed the Section 302 life sentence for the TSR rifleman; matches conviction_upheld.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Tripura High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Tripura High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A.(J) No. 22 of 2024", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-06-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Tripura High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Tripura 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.(J) No. 22 of 2024", "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://rawlaw.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Sri-Sukanta-Das.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://tripurachronicle.in/local-news/tsr-constable-gets-life-term-for-killing-two-colleagues-in-2021/", "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-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }