# Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 February 1997 in Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 612 of 1992, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.P. Jeevan Reddy, S.C. Sen, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: MN 02 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 612 of 1992 / (1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.P. Jeevan Reddy, S.C. Sen, JJ.), 5 February 1997
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Imphal Police)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “there was no encounter in the night between 3-4-1991 and 4-4-1991 at Nungthulien Village. The two deceased, namely, a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man were shot dead by the police while in custody on 4-4-1991.” (at para 6)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/544871/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1997-0002)

**Record:** CW-1997-0002 (compiler id CWC-0273); case SWFAKEEN-027
**Title:** Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: B.P. Jeevan Reddy; S.C. Sen
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 612 of 1992 / (1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203
**Judgment:** 1997-02-05 (1997, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1991-04-03 (1991)
**Place:** Churachandpur, Manipur; city town: Lunthilian/Nungthulien village; police station or unit: Imphal Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man; Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

On PUCL's Article 32 petition, the Supreme Court accepted a District Judge inquiry finding that Imphal police caught villagers of Lunthilian on the night of 3 April 1991, trucked them away and shot dead a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man in custody on 4 April 1991, holding there was no encounter. The Court noted three other villagers were kept in custody for months until 22 July 1991. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each bereaved family payable by the Manipur government through the District Magistrate within two months, plus Rs 10,000 costs to PUCL. The Court left punishment of the offenders to the criminal courts while granting public-law compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> there was no encounter in the night between 3-4-1991 and 4-4-1991 at Nungthulien Village. The two deceased, namely, a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man and a Lunthilian/Nungthulien village man were shot dead by the police while in custody on 4-4-1991.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/544871/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 6
**display title redacted:** Lunthilian/Nungthulien Village Man vs Union of India and Anr.
**followup history:** {'date': '2026-09-19', 'scope': 'Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass', 'method': 'skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)', 'result': 'holds', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '1997-02-05', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(1997) 3 SCC 433; AIR 1997 SC 1203', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/544871/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Supreme Court held the 1991 killings were custodial murders, not an encounter, and awarded Rs 1 lakh per family; matches adverse_finding_compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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