# Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 August 2005, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: A. Hazarika, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: UB Constable (UBC 747), Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000).

- Register number: ML 05 CW 0001
- Case reference: 2007(1) GLT 228
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: A. Hazarika, J.), 5 August 2005
- Officer(s) at the material time: UB Constable (UBC 747), Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The affidavit filed by the superintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills is not encouraging. Rather it has tried to cover up the story based on falsehood.” (at para 15)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000).
- 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/1287374/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2005-0008)

**Record:** CW-2005-0008 (compiler id CWC-0261); case NORTHE-002
**Title:** Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: A. Hazarika
**Case number / citation:** 2007(1) GLT 228
**Judgment:** 2005-08-05 (2005, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2002-04-15 (2002)
**Place:** East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya; city town: Shillong; police station or unit: Laitumkhrah Police Beat House; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302
**Officers (gated display forms):** UB Constable (UBC 747), Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Laitumkhrah PS, Shillong (2 in record)
**Victims:** Shillong man, age 23 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that 23-year-old businessman \[name withheld\], brutally assaulted by on-duty police at the Rangali Bihu venue on the night of 15-04-2002 and taken to the Laitumkhrah Beat House, died of those injuries on 18-04-2002. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem report, the court rejected the SP's cover-up affidavit based on falsehood and held the State failed to discharge its burden. Finding an Article 21 violation, it awarded another Rs 1.5 lakh over the Rs 1 lakh ex gratia already paid (Rs 2.5 lakh total), payable within two months. A murder case (Laitumkhrah PS Case 25(4)02 under Section 302 IPC) was already registered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The affidavit filed by the superintendent of Police, East Khasi Hills is not encouraging. Rather it has tried to cover up the story based on falsehood.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1287374/)
**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:** 15
**display title redacted:** Shillong Man vs State of Meghalaya 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': \['court_quote_para', 'officers'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2005-08-05', '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 250,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2007(1) GLT 228', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1287374/', '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 police atrocity killed a Shillong man; addl Rs 1.5L (Rs 2.5L total with ex gratia).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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