# Yen-Kao-Bung, Kameng Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 13 November 2014 in W.P.(Cril.) No. 24 of 2009, the Manipur High Court (Coram: L.K. Mohapatra, N. Kotiswar Singh, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: MN 01 CW 0012
- Case reference: W.P.(Cril.) No. 24 of 2009
- Court and date: Manipur High Court (Coram: L.K. Mohapatra, N. Kotiswar Singh, JJ.), 13 November 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West (encounter report at Lamsang PS))
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We, therefore, accept the report submitted by the learned District Judge and hold that the deceased husband of the petitioner was killed by the Manipur Police Commandos while he was in their custody and it was given a colour of …” (at para 8)
- 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://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-24.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2014-0011)

**Record:** CW-2014-0011 (compiler id CWC-0557); case SWFAKEEN-020
**Title:** Yen-Kao-Bung, Kameng Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.
**Court:** Manipur High Court; judges: L.K. Mohapatra; N. Kotiswar Singh
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(Cril.) No. 24 of 2009
**Judgment:** 2014-11-13 (2014, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2008-11-04 (2008)
**Place:** Imphal West, Manipur; city town: Yen-kao-bung, Kameng; police station or unit: Manipur Police Commando, Imphal West (encounter report at Lamsang PS); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Yen-kao-bung, Kameng man, age 35 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Manipur High Court records the following account. On 4 November 2008, a Yen-kao-bung, Kameng man, 35, telephoned his wife that Manipur Police Commandos had apprehended him at Wahengbam Leikai; that evening TV news showed him killed in an encounter at Yen-kao-bung, Kameng, with a planted grenade, and branded a KCP(MC) militant. The High Court accepted the District Judge (Manipur East) inquiry finding that there was no encounter and held he was killed by the commandos while in their custody under cover of a staged encounter. It allowed the widow's petition and awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation within three months. Note: the court-site PDF link was unreachable at verification; the text was verified on the mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We, therefore, accept the report submitted by the learned District Judge and hold that the deceased husband of the petitioner was killed by the Manipur Police Commandos while he was in their custody and it was given a colour of encounter.

**Sources (2):** [hcmimphal.nic.in](https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-24.pdf); [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86135/neena-devi-vs-state-of-manipur/)
**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:** False
**court quote para:** 8
**display title redacted:** Yen-Kao-Bung, Kameng Man v. State of Manipur & Ors.
**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': '2014-11-13', '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': 'W.P.(Cril.) No. 24 of 2009', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://hcmimphal.nic.in/hcmjudgement/Judgement/uploads/j92-2009-24.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/86135/neena-devi-vs-state-of-manipur/', '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:** Custodial killing by commandos given colour of encounter; Rs 5L to widow.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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