# Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 9 November 2012 in WP(C) No. 2427 of 2008, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: Amitava Roy, Anima Hazarika, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector, Mushalpur OP, Baksa; Home Guard, Mushalpur OP, Baksa, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).

- Register number: AS 00 CW 0002
- Case reference: WP(C) No. 2427 of 2008 / (2013) 1 GLT 610
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: Amitava Roy, Anima Hazarika, JJ.), 9 November 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, Mushalpur OP, Baksa; Home Guard, Mushalpur OP, Baksa
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “it is admitted by the respondents that Sri \[name withheld\], Home Guard under whose vigil and control the deceased had been left at the Mushalpur Police Out Post had been grossly negligent in allowing him to carry a 'Gamosa' with …” (at para 19)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).
- 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/415827/damayanti-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0014)

**Record:** CW-2012-0014 (compiler id CWC-0028); case ASSAM-014
**Title:** Mushalpur Man vs State of Assam and Others
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: Amitava Roy; Anima Hazarika
**Case number / citation:** WP(C) No. 2427 of 2008 / (2013) 1 GLT 610
**Judgment:** 2012-11-09 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2007-10-25 (2007)
**Place:** Baksa, Assam; city town: Mushalpur; police station or unit: Mushalpur Out Post; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, Mushalpur OP, Baksa; Home Guard, Mushalpur OP, Baksa (2 in record)
**Victims:** Mushalpur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of head teacher a Mushalpur man, who died in custody at Mushalpur Out Post on 26 October 2007 after being detained the previous day for interrogation. While unconvinced of physical torture, the Court held the police grossly negligent: a Home Guard let the detainee carry a gamosa into the toilet, no arrest memo was prepared, the family was never informed, and the post-mortem was conducted without them. The Court found the detainee's right to reputation and the D.K. Basu safeguards under Articles 21 and 22(1) infringed without justifiable cause. The court found Home Guard grossly negligent, but he is a Home Guard volunteer under whose vigil the deceased was left at Mushalpur Police Out Post, not a member of the police force. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> it is admitted by the respondents that Sri \[name withheld\], Home Guard under whose vigil and control the deceased had been left at the Mushalpur Police Out Post had been grossly negligent in allowing him to carry a 'Gamosa' with him to the toilet

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415827/damayanti-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/); [the-laws.com](https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=602102168000&title=damayanti-das-vs-state-of-assam)
**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:** 19
**display title redacted:** Mushalpur Man vs 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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2012-11-09', '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 150,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2013) 1 GLT 610', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/415827/damayanti-das-appellant-hash-state-of-assam-and-others-respondent/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=602102168000&title=damayanti-das-vs-state-of-assam', '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:** Custodial negligence (gamosa suicide); Rs 1.5L verified.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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