# Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 28 February 2018 in WP(C) No. 213 of 2014, the Meghalaya High Court (Coram: Tarun Agarwala, S.R. Sen, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000).

- Register number: ML 08 CW 0001
- Case reference: WP(C) No. 213 of 2014 / 2018 Cri LJ 2885
- Court and date: Meghalaya High Court (Coram: Tarun Agarwala, S.R. Sen, JJ.), 28 February 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Tura Police Station)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “A young life has been snuffed out on account of police brutality” (at para n/a — original judgment unnumbered; quote at p.13 of official PDF)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000).
- 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/173666772/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0004)

**Record:** CW-2018-0004 (compiler id CWC-0262); case SWCUSTOD-042
**Title:** Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya and Others
**Court:** Meghalaya High Court; judges: Tarun Agarwala; S.R. Sen
**Case number / citation:** WP(C) No. 213 of 2014 / 2018 Cri LJ 2885
**Judgment:** 2018-02-28 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-05-12 (2014)
**Place:** West Garo Hills, Meghalaya; city town: Tura; police station or unit: Tura Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (2 in record)
**Victims:** Tura man, age 18 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Meghalaya High Court (Division Bench) held that 18-year-old Class XII student, detained from the evening of 12-05-2014 and produced only on 14-05-2014, was beaten and assaulted by Tura police personnel and died on 20-05-2014 of injuries caused in police detention. The court relied on the CID investigation which disbelieved the police version and charge-sheeted police personnel, and found gross human-rights violation. Enhancing the State's deposited Rs 10 lakh, it awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to the mother. It directed departmental inquiries against the charge-sheeted policemen and the SP, proceedings against negligent doctors, scrutiny of the remand magistrate, and conclusion of the criminal trial within a year. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> A young life has been snuffed out on account of police brutality

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173666772/)
**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:** n/a — original judgment unnumbered; quote at p.13 of official PDF
**display title redacted:** Tura Man vs State of Meghalaya 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['officers', 'court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2018-02-28', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Meghalaya High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Meghalaya High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2018 Cri LJ 2885', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173666772/', '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:** Meghalaya HC (DB) held police brutality killed Balsan Marak; Rs 15L + inquiries. Incident dated 12-05-2014 (detention start).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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