# Kiphire Man vs State of Nagaland and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 7 December 2004, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.P. Katakey, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Officer-in-Charge, Kiphire Police Station; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kiphire Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: NL 00 CW 0001
- Case reference: (2006) 1 GLR 806
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.P. Katakey, J.), 7 December 2004
- Officer(s) at the material time: Officer-in-Charge, Kiphire Police Station; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kiphire Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is concluded that Lt. A Kiphire man was lock up on the night of 24.7.2001 at Kiphire Police Station without legal authority and he was found dead inside the police lock-up the next morning.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
- 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/756882/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2004-0005)

**Record:** CW-2004-0005 (compiler id CWC-0275); case NORTHE-016
**Title:** Kiphire Man vs State of Nagaland and Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B.P. Katakey
**Case number / citation:** (2006) 1 GLR 806
**Judgment:** 2004-12-07 (2004, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2001-07-24 (2001)
**Place:** Kiphire, Nagaland; city town: Kiphire; police station or unit: Kiphire Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Officer-in-Charge, Kiphire Police Station; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kiphire Police Station (2 in record)
**Victims:** Kiphire man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Gauhati High Court held that a Kiphire man was locked in Kiphire police station lockup on the night of 24 July 2001 without any legal authority and found dead inside the lockup the next morning, accepting the ADC(J) Tuensang enquiry findings. It found his body was disposed of without following mandatory legal procedure including post-mortem. Though the enquiry could not pin direct responsibility on any individual, the Court awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation plus Rs 15,000 costs, with half the compensation secured for the children. The finding rests on illegal detention combined with death in custody rather than proven torture. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It is concluded that Lt. A Kiphire man was lock up on the night of 24.7.2001 at Kiphire Police Station without legal authority and he was found dead inside the police lock-up the next morning.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/756882/)
**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
**display title redacted:** Kiphire Man vs State of Nagaland 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': '2004-12-07', '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 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2006) 1 GLR 806', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/756882/', '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 HC held illegal lockup plus death in custody and awarded Rs 3 lakh; matches adverse_finding_compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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