# The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 June 2012 in Regular First Appeal No. 3 of 2009, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: T. Nandakumar Singh, N. Kotiswar Singh, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kakching Police Station; Inspector, Kakching Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 7.2 lakh (Rs 7,20,000).

- Register number: MN 00 CW 0003
- Case reference: Regular First Appeal No. 3 of 2009 / AIR 2012 Guw 113
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: T. Nandakumar Singh, N. Kotiswar Singh, JJ.), 5 June 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kakching Police Station; Inspector, Kakching Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 224 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 331 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The learned Trial Court after appreciation of the statements of D.Ws. held that the defendants had utterly failed to prove that (late) a Kakching man, escaped from police custody and further held that (late) a Kakching man died in the …” (at para 11)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 7.2 lakh (Rs 7,20,000).
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/431290/the-chief-secretary-government-of-manipur-and-others-appellant-hash-smt-naorem-ongbi-rashmani-de/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0009)

**Record:** CW-2012-0009 (compiler id CWC-0269); case NORTHE-010
**Title:** The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi and Others
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; bench: Imphal; judges: T. Nandakumar Singh; N. Kotiswar Singh
**Case number / citation:** Regular First Appeal No. 3 of 2009 / AIR 2012 Guw 113
**Judgment:** 2012-06-05 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1991-07-29 (1991)
**Place:** Kakching, Manipur (district at time: Thoubal); city town: Kakching; police station or unit: Kakching Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 224; IPC 330; IPC 331
**Officers (gated display forms):** Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kakching Police Station; Inspector, Kakching Police Station (2 in record)
**Victims:** Kakching man, age 35 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 7.2 lakh (Rs 7,20,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Gauhati High Court (Imphal Bench) dismissed the State of Manipur's regular first appeal, affirming a civil court decree awarding Rs 7,20,000 with 6% annual interest for the custodial death of a Kakching man Singh was arrested from his home on 29 July 1991 by an ASI-led police party and taken to Kakching Police Station, where he was tortured in the lockup, and his dead body was subsequently found floating in Kharungpat lake on 2 August 1991. The High Court rejected the police's fabricated claim that Singh had escaped from custody, holding that the State was vicariously liable for the wrongful and tortious acts of its police officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The learned Trial Court after appreciation of the statements of D.Ws. held that the defendants had utterly failed to prove that (late) a Kakching man, escaped from police custody and further held that (late) a Kakching man died in the police custody.

**Sources (1):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/431290/the-chief-secretary-government-of-manipur-and-others-appellant-hash-smt-naorem-ongbi-rashmani-de/)
**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:** The Chief Secretary, Government of Manipur and Others vs Smt. Naorem Ongbi Rashmani Devi 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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2012-06-05', '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 720,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'AIR 2012 Guw 113', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/431290/the-chief-secretary-government-of-manipur-and-others-appellant-hash-smt-naorem-ongbi-rashmani-de/', '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 (Imphal Bench) dismissed State appeal, affirming Rs 7,20,000 tort damages plus 6% interest for custodial death of a Kakching man
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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