# Diphu Boy vs State of Assam and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 31 July 2006, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B. Sudershan Reddy, J.) returned findings adverse to the Officer-in-Charge (respondent No. 3), Diphu Police Station, Karbi Anglong, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: AS 09 CW 0001
- Case reference: (2006) 3 GLR 810
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B. Sudershan Reddy, J.), 31 July 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Officer-in-Charge (respondent No. 3), Diphu Police Station, Karbi Anglong
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is a clear case where only conclusion that could eventually be drawn is that the petitioner's brother was taken into custody by the 3rd respondent and other police personnel in connection with the investigation into the Diphu P.S. Case …” (at para 24)
- 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/1166698/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0007)

**Record:** CW-2006-0007 (compiler id CWC-0021); case EAST---NORTHEAST-002
**Title:** Diphu Boy vs State of Assam and Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B. Sudershan Reddy
**Case number / citation:** (2006) 3 GLR 810
**Judgment:** 2006-07-31 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2004-03-21 (2004)
**Place:** Karbi Anglong, Assam; city town: Diphu; police station or unit: Diphu 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 (respondent No. 3), Diphu Police Station, Karbi Anglong (2 in record)
**Victims:** Diphu boy, age 14 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. fix duplicated phrase '14-year-old Class IX student a 14-year-old boy'; state police version (accidental fall from bamboo bridge — paras 13, 16). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It is a clear case where only conclusion that could eventually be drawn is that the petitioner's brother was taken into custody by the 3rd respondent and other police personnel in connection with the investigation into the Diphu P.S. Case No. 5/04 registered against him and has been subjected to brutal torture in custody resulting in his death while in custody.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166698/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1903007/)
**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:** True
**court quote para:** 24
**display title redacted:** Diphu Boy 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2006-07-31', '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) 3 GLR 810', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166698/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1903007/', '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:** High Court held 14-year-old Bhupen Singh Terang tortured to death in Diphu PS custody; Rs 3 lakh (recoverable from OC salary), criminal case + CID probe + disciplinary action ordered.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 14, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 14-year-old boy'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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