CW-2014-0009Imphal West, ManipurJudgment 15 September 2014

Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur and Others

The Manipur High Court Division Bench (Chief Justice Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh) held Manipur Police Commandos and 21 Assam Rifles personnel responsible for the 4 March 2009 killing of 12-year-old student a 12-year-old boy, dragged from his Phoubakchao home and shot dead in a paddy field with a planted pistol. Disbelieving the retaliatory-killing-of-a-PULF-cadre version in light of the District Judge's inquiry and eyewitnesses, the Court held the death was caused without procedure established by law. It awarded Rs 5 lakh public-law compensation shared equally by the State and the Assam Rifles within four months, with liberty to seek more civilly. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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Report card

By judgment dated 15 September 2014 in W.P. (Crl.) No. 49 of 2009, the Manipur High Court (Coram: Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra, N. Kotiswar Singh, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Manipur Police Commandos with 21 Assam Rifles, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

Register number
MN 01 CW 0011
Case reference
W.P. (Crl.) No. 49 of 2009 / (2014) 09 MAN CK 0015
Court and date
Manipur High Court (Coram: Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra, N. Kotiswar Singh, JJ.), 15 September 2014
Officer(s) at the material time
Police personnel, Manipur Police Commandos with 21 Assam Rifles
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Not stated in the cited sources
Finding of the Court (extract)
“Having held that the Manipur Police Commandos and the Assam Rifle personnel were responsible for the death of the petitioner's son, they would be liable for payment of compensation under the public law remedy as the death was caused without …” (at para 14)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.

The Manipur High Court judgment dated 15 September 2014 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“Having held that the Manipur Police Commandos and the Assam Rifle personnel were responsible for the death of the petitioner's son, they would be liable for payment of compensation under the public law remedy as the death was caused without …” (para 14)

Institutional response

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15 Sep 2014

Order issued

Concluded
Manipur High Court External · Binding

The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.

Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: (2014) 09 MAN CK 0015
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))

Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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