# Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 29 June 2007, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: T. Vaiphei, J.) returned findings adverse to the Investigating Officer, Mairang Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: ML 06 CW 0001
- Case reference: AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: T. Vaiphei, J.), 29 June 2007
- Officer(s) at the material time: Investigating Officer, Mairang Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The State-respondents shall also hold an enquiry to find out the police personnel involved in the custodial death of the deceased” (at para 15)
- 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/496845/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2007-0009)

**Record:** CW-2007-0009 (compiler id CWC-0260); case NORTHE-001
**Title:** Mairang Man and Anr. vs State of Meghalaya and Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: T. Vaiphei
**Case number / citation:** AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864
**Judgment:** 2007-06-29 (2007, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1998-09-02 (1998)
**Place:** West Khasi Hills, Meghalaya; city town: Mairang; police station or unit: Mairang Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Investigating Officer, Mairang Police Station (2 in record)
**Victims:** Mairang man, age 27 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Mairang man, 27, handed by the village durbar to Mairang police on 02-09-1998 on a cattle-theft suspicion, died of custodial violence, rejecting the State's malaria-death claim. The court relied on the District Judge's enquiry which found foul play, contradictory medical reports and remand violations, and found a cover-up in collusion with medical officers. Holding the State strictly liable under Articles 21/226, it awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation to the widow within two months. It directed an enquiry to identify the police personnel involved, with recovery of the compensation from them, leaving civil remedies open. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The State-respondents shall also hold an enquiry to find out the police personnel involved in the custodial death of the deceased

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/496845/)
**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:** Mairang Man and Anr. 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': '2007-06-29', '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 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'AIR 2007 Gau 155; (2007) 3 GLT 864', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/496845/', '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 custodial violence killed a Mairang man; Rs 3L + enquiry to fix responsibility.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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