# Pengaree Man and Another vs State of Assam and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 4 February 1999 in Civil Rule No. 2163 of 1996, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: M. Sharma, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: AS 23 CW 0001
- Case reference: Civil Rule No. 2163 of 1996 / (2000) 2 GLT 504
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: M. Sharma, J.), 4 February 1999
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Pengaree Police Outpost, Tinsukia)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Taking into consideration of the entire facts and circumstances of the case, the police personnel cannot escape the responsibilities of custodial death of the deceased at Pengaree Police Out Post.” (at para 7)
- 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://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaa9fb607dba3c8ce3eb29); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1999-0001)

**Record:** CW-1999-0001 (compiler id CWC-0019); case EAST---NORTHEAST-003; aliases: CWC-1452
**Title:** Pengaree Man and Another vs State of Assam and Others
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: M. Sharma
**Case number / citation:** Civil Rule No. 2163 of 1996 / (2000) 2 GLT 504
**Judgment:** 1999-02-04 (1999, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1996-02-15 (1996)
**Place:** Tinsukia, Assam; city town: Pengaree; police station or unit: Pengaree Police Outpost, Tinsukia; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (2 in record)
**Victims:** Pengaree man, age 19 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

On 15 February 1996, 19-year-old student a Pengaree man was caught by two constables while awaiting conveyance, beaten, and taken to Pengaree outpost; on 16 February his family found his body in the lock-up with blood from the nose and bruises, while police claimed he hanged himself. The hale-and-hearty boy with no criminal background died in custody and police buried the body in haste, denying the family rites. The court held police personnel could not escape responsibility for the custodial death and directed the State to pay Rs.2,00,000 compensation to the widowed mother through the Deputy Commissioner, Tinsukia. Full text verified via the courtkutchehry mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Taking into consideration of the entire facts and circumstances of the case, the police personnel cannot escape the responsibilities of custodial death of the deceased at Pengaree Police Out Post.

**Sources (2):** [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaa9fb607dba3c8ce3eb29); [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427835/moheela-moran-and-another-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 7
**display title redacted:** Pengaree Man and Another vs State of Assam and Others
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '1999-02-04', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gauhati High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2000) 2 GLT 504', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaa9fb607dba3c8ce3eb29', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/427835/moheela-moran-and-another-vs-state-of-assam-and-others/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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:** Full judgment verified via mirror; Rs 2L to mother for custodial death of 19-year-old.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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