# Mathurapur Man vs State Of Assam And Ors.

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## Report card

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).

- Register number: AS 33 CW 0001
- Case reference: 2003 CRI. L. J. 4197, (2003) 2 GLR 395
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.B. Jain, J.), 6 March 2003
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Mathurapur Police Station)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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 …” (at para 9)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1.2 lakh (Rs 1,25,000).
- 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/1958724/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2003-0003)

**Record:** CW-2003-0003 (compiler id CWC-0022); case ASSAM-008
**Title:** Mathurapur Man vs State Of Assam And Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B.B. Jain
**Case number / citation:** 2003 CRI. L. J. 4197, (2003) 2 GLR 395
**Judgment:** 2003-03-06 (2003, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1999-10-02 (1999)
**Place:** Charaideo, Assam (district at time: Sivasagar); city town: Mathurapur; police station or unit: Mathurapur Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution of India Art. 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Mathurapur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1.2 lakh (Rs 1,25,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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 as such the respondents cannot absolve their responsibilities.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1958724/)
**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:** 9
**display title redacted:** Mathurapur Man vs State Of Assam And Ors.
**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': '2003-03-06', '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 125,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2003 CRI. L. J. 4197, (2003) 2 GLR 395', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1958724/', '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:** Gauhati High Court found foul play in custodial death and awarded compensation of Rs. 1,25,000 to deceased mother.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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