# Bokajan Woman v. State of Assam and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 29 August 2006, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B. Sudershan Reddy, J.) returned findings adverse to the Additional Superintendent of Police, Assam Police, Bokajan operation, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: AS 09 CW 0003
- Case reference: (2007) 1 GLR 453
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B. Sudershan Reddy, J.), 29 August 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Additional Superintendent of Police, Assam Police, Bokajan operation
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “On the facts and in the circumstances we hold that the violation of Article 21 in the instant case is patent and incontrovertible and it is of a magnitude that shocks the conscience of the court.” (at para 29)
- 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/987945/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0008)

**Record:** CW-2006-0008 (compiler id CWC-0668); case SWILLEGA-080
**Title:** Bokajan Woman v. State of Assam and Others
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B. Sudershan Reddy
**Case number / citation:** (2007) 1 GLR 453
**Judgment:** 2006-08-29 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2005-04-20 (2005)
**Place:** Karbi Anglong, Assam; city town: Bokajan; police station or unit: Assam Police (Bokajan/Kalapahar operation party); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Additional Superintendent of Police, Assam Police, Bokajan operation (1 in record)
**Victims:** Bokajan woman, age 30 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. add police version (denied picking her up; encounter with ULFA camp, blood trails, no arrest — paras 7-10); keep: habeas petition, 20.4.2005 Kalapahar operation, never produced, Rs 2L to parents via RG in 2 months + recovery after enquiry, DGP case+CBI in 1 week, compliance in 3 weeks, Rs 10,000 costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> On the facts and in the circumstances we hold that the violation of Article 21 in the instant case is patent and incontrovertible and it is of a magnitude that shocks the conscience of the court.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', '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:** 29
**display title redacted:** Bokajan Woman v. State of Assam and Others
**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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2006-08-29', '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) 1 GLR 453', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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 habeas judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 2L + CBI probe for disappearance matches.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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