# Smti Mandira Nandi vs \[name withheld\]

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## Report card

By judgment dated 27 March 2012 in Criminal Appeal No. 41 of 2003, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.D. Agarwal, J.) recorded the conviction of the Superintendent of Police, Karimganj, Assam Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).

- Register number: AS 10 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 41 of 2003 / 2012 CRI. L. J. 2567; (2012) 2 Gau LT 576
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: B.D. Agarwal, J.), 27 March 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Superintendent of Police, Karimganj, Assam Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 357 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “I hold that the complainant has adduced sufficient corroborative evidence to prove the allegation of causing simple hurt upon PW-3. Consequently, the impugned judgment is hereby set aside. The accused/opposite party is convicted under section 323 IPC.” (at para 19)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine. Compensation: Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
- 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/81246444/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0027)

**Record:** CW-2012-0027 (compiler id CWC-0919); case ASSAM-011
**Title:** Smti Mandira Nandi vs \[name withheld\]
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: B.D. Agarwal
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 41 of 2003 / 2012 CRI. L. J. 2567; (2012) 2 Gau LT 576
**Judgment:** 2012-03-27 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2000-06-20 (2000)
**Place:** Sribhumi, Assam (district at time: Karimganj); city town: Karimganj; police station or unit: Karimganj Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Conviction entered by High Court (conviction_by_hc)
**Sections:** IPC 323; CrPC 357
**Officers (gated display forms):** Superintendent of Police, Karimganj, Assam Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Karimganj man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000)
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Gauhati High Court (B.D. Agarwal, J.) set aside the Magistrate's acquittal and convicted Karimganj SP under Section 323 IPC for the custodial beating of detenue a Karimganj man @ a Karimganj man on 20-21 June 2000. The Court held the trial court had discarded one-sided prosecution evidence on flimsy grounds despite corroboration by the co-detenue eyewitness and three government doctors, and found the SP had conspired to have the victim arrested in a second non-bailable FIR after he joined a demand for the SP's transfer. Taking a lenient view on sentence after 12 years, the Court imposed Rs. 1,000 fine plus Rs. 1,00,000 compensation to the injured under Section 357 CrPC, with six months' simple imprisonment in default of deposit within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> I hold that the complainant has adduced sufficient corroborative evidence to prove the allegation of causing simple hurt upon PW-3. Consequently, the impugned judgment is hereby set aside. The accused/opposite party is convicted under section 323 IPC.

**Sources (3):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81246444/); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaabe6607dba3c8ce409e2); [ghconline.gov.in](https://ghconline.gov.in/JDMTMar12.pdf)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_torture
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial torture', '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:** Smti Mandira Nandi vs \[name withheld\]
**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': '2012-03-27', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gauhati High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gauhati High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '2012 CRI. L. J. 2567; (2012) 2 Gau LT 576', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81246444/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56eaabe6607dba3c8ce409e2', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://ghconline.gov.in/JDMTMar12.pdf', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial torture
**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:** Primary judgment verified: SP convicted u/s 323 IPC on reversal of acquittal; fine + Rs 1 lakh compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction entered by High Court.

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