# Bokajan Woman vs State of Assam and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 21 August 2006, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B. S. Reddy, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Additional Superintendent of Police, Karbi Anglong; Police personnel, Bokajan PS area, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: AS 09 CW 0002
- Case reference: 2007 CriLJ 1017
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B. S. Reddy, J.), 21 August 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Additional Superintendent of Police, Karbi Anglong; Police personnel, Bokajan PS area
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We accordingly award compensation of Rs. 2,00,000 (rupees two lakh) payable by the State to be recovered from the officers responsible for causing disappearance of Smti. A Bokajan woman @ a Bokajan woman for which purposes the State may hold …” (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/1684953/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0026)

**Record:** CW-2006-0026 (compiler id CWC-0026); case ASSAM-012
**Title:** Bokajan Woman vs State of Assam and Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B. S. Reddy
**Case number / citation:** 2007 CriLJ 1017
**Judgment:** 2006-08-21 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2005-04-20 (2005)
**Place:** Karbi Anglong, Assam; city town: Bokajan; police station or unit: Bokajan Police Station area (Kalapahar forest operation party); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** enforced disappearance
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Additional Superintendent of Police, Karbi Anglong; Police personnel, Bokajan PS area (2 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 Gauhati High Court held that a police party led by Additional SP picked up a Bokajan woman in an injured condition during an anti-insurgency operation in the Kalapahar forest on 20 April 2005, in front of villagers, and never produced her before any Magistrate. The Court raised the presumption that she had been liquidated in custody and described the violation of Article 21 as patent, incontrovertible and conscience-shocking. It awarded Rs 2,00,000 in compensation, payable by the State but recoverable from the officers responsible, together with Rs 10,000 in costs. It further directed the Director General of Police to register a case within a week and entrust the investigation to the CBI. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We accordingly award compensation of Rs. 2,00,000 (rupees two lakh) payable by the State to be recovered from the officers responsible for causing disappearance of Smti. A Bokajan woman @ a Bokajan woman for which purposes the State may hold an appropriate enquiry into the matter.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1684953/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/987945/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** enforced_disappearance
**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 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': \['court_quote', 'court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2006-08-21', '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 CriLJ 1017', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1684953/', 'link_checked': None}; {'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:** enforced disappearance
**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:** Disappearance in custody presumed killing; Rs 2L + costs verified.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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