# Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 21 August 2018, the Gauhati High Court returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: AS 25 CW 0005
- Case reference: Not stated
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court, 21 August 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Article 21 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Detention of the petitioner in police custody from 3 am of 22.8.2011 to 2:00 p.m. of 23.8.2011 and the violence inflicted upon him during that period in custody is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. It is not a case of negligence …” (at para 25)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e740f699fca194121fad383); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0010)

**Record:** CW-2018-0010 (compiler id CWC-0037); case ASSAM-024
**Title:** Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and Others
**Court:** Gauhati High Court
**Case number / citation:** Not stated
**Judgment:** 2018-08-21 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2011-08-21 (2011)
**Place:** Kamrup Metropolitan, Assam; city town: Guwahati; police station or unit: Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226; Constitution Art. 21
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Panbazar Police Station, Guwahati (1 in record)
**Victims:** Guwahati man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to advocate's clerk a Guwahati man for unauthorised detention and torture at Panbazar Police Station from 21 to 23 August 2011. The Court found he was kept confined without arrest and subjected to inhuman torture in connection with a bail-bond forgery probe ordered on a complaint by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, then let off. It directed the Commissioner of Police, Guwahati City to deposit the amount with the Registry within 60 days. The full judgment text sits behind paywalls; the operative direction is quoted identically in two independent legal databases. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Detention of the petitioner in police custody from 3 am of 22.8.2011 to 2:00 p.m. of 23.8.2011 and the violence inflicted upon him during that period in custody is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. It is not a case of negligence as opined by the Inquiry Officer in the departmental proceeding but is a case of grave misconduct.

**Sources (2):** [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e740f699fca194121fad383); [the-laws.com](https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=608102394100&title=ajit-medhi-vs-chief-judicial-magistrate)
**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:** 25
**display title redacted:** Guwahati Man vs Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) 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': '2018-08-21', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gauhati High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Gauhati High Court judgment 2018-08-21', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e740f699fca194121fad383', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=608102394100&title=ajit-medhi-vs-chief-judicial-magistrate', '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:** Full text paywalled; detention/torture facts and Rs 2L direction verified verbatim in two databases.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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