# Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur and Others

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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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86123/garamjan-bibi-vs-the-state-of-manipur/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2014-0009)

**Record:** CW-2014-0009 (compiler id CWC-0547); case SWFAKEEN-006
**Title:** Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur and Others
**Court:** Manipur High Court; judges: Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra; N. Kotiswar Singh
**Case number / citation:** W.P. (Crl.) No. 49 of 2009 / (2014) 09 MAN CK 0015
**Judgment:** 2014-09-15 (2014, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2009-03-04 (2009)
**Place:** Imphal West, Manipur; city town: Phoubakchao; police station or unit: Mayang Imphal Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Manipur Police Commandos with 21 Assam Rifles (1 in record)
**Victims:** Phoubakchao boy, age 12 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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 following the process established by law.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86123/garamjan-bibi-vs-the-state-of-manipur/); [kanglaonline.in](https://kanglaonline.in/2014/09/hc-orders-compensation-in-12-year-old-killing-case/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', '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:** True
**court quote para:** 14
**display title redacted:** Phoubakchao Boy vs The State of Manipur 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': '2014-09-15', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Manipur High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Manipur High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2014) 09 MAN CK 0015', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86123/garamjan-bibi-vs-the-state-of-manipur/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://kanglaonline.in/2014/09/hc-orders-compensation-in-12-year-old-killing-case/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**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:** HC held police commandos+AR responsible for killing of minor; Rs 5L shared compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 12, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 12-year-old boy'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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