The Gauhati High Court allowed a writ petition seeking compensation for the custodial death of a Mathurapur man, who died in District Jail, Sivasagar on October 21, 1999, after arrest by Mathurapur police. The Court rejected the District Judge's inquiry finding that had burdened the petitioner to prove physical torture, noting that the police failed to comply with D.K. Basu arrest intimation directives and offered no records explaining his sudden death or enlarged liver. Holding that the cumulative omissions led to a prudent inference of foul play while in custody, the Court directed the State respondents to pay Rs. 1,25,000 in compensation to the deceased mother. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 6 March 2003, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.B. Jain, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.2 lakh (Rs 1,25,000).
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“The cumulative effect of all these omissions on the part of the Police/Jail authority would lead a prudent man to infer that due to some foul play committed on the deceased [name withheld], sudden death happened while in custody and …” (para 9)
The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 125,000.
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