# State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi

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## Report card

By judgment dated 16 June 2006, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.P. Katakey, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Officer-in-Charge, Mangaldoi Police Station, Darrang; Officer-in-Charge, Khoirabari Police Station, Darrang, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: AS 13 CW 0002
- Case reference: (2007) 2 GLR 217
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.P. Katakey, J.), 16 June 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Officer-in-Charge, Mangaldoi Police Station, Darrang; Officer-in-Charge, Khoirabari Police Station, Darrang
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “\[name withheld\] was brutally tortured by the police personnel while he was in custody.” (at para 11)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0005)

**Record:** CW-2006-0005 (compiler id CWC-0453); case SWCUSTOD-022
**Title:** State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B.P. Katakey
**Case number / citation:** (2007) 2 GLR 217
**Judgment:** 2006-06-16 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1994-12-04 (1994)
**Place:** Darrang, Assam; city town: Mangaldoi; police station or unit: Mangaldoi Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 201; IPC 120B
**Officers (gated display forms):** Officer-in-Charge, Mangaldoi Police Station, Darrang; Officer-in-Charge, Khoirabari Police Station, Darrang (2 in record)
**Victims:** Mangaldoi man, age 25 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

remove 'after the Supreme Court's remand' (no SC mention in either judgment); remove or source 'ULFA' (TADA context only, SJ mentions TADA once re co-accused; 'ULFA' nowhere); state police version (escape bid, fall on handcuff — DB paras 8, 11, 15). \[name withheld\] is named only as an accused in CBI FIR RC-6/S/2001 registered on the Single Judge's direction; the court recorded no personal finding and expressly declined to record guilt against any person while investigation was pending. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> \[name withheld\] was brutally tortured by the police personnel while he was in custody.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/550907/)
**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:** 11
**display title redacted:** State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi
**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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2006-06-16', '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': '(2007) 2 GLR 217', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/757390/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/550907/', '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:** HC judgment text verified; custodial torture-death, Rs.2L paid + CBI murder probe sustained.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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