23 Jan 2025
Order issued
ConcludedThe The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel.
adverse finding compensation.
Source: 2025:GAU-AS:711
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CW-2025-0075Sonitpur, AssamJudgment 23 January 2025
Sonitpur Man vs The State of Assam and Ors
The High Court held that the petitioner, a bystander near a road-accident protest site, suffered a bullet injury when the police opened fire. The High Court held that the firing was done without warning or superior orders and amounted to gross state violence. The High Court directed the respondent authorities to pay Rs.5,00,000 compensation in exercise of public-law jurisdiction. The High Court made clear the award was in addition to any other legal remedy available to the petitioner.
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By judgment dated 23 January 2025 in WP(C)/6349/2017, the The Gauhati High Court (Coram: Kardak Ete, J.) returned findings adverse to the police personnel, Mahabhairab police outpost / Assam Police, Tezpur, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- Register number
- AS 12 CW 0001
- Case reference
- WP(C)/6349/2017 / 2025:GAU-AS:711
- Court and date
- The Gauhati High Court (Coram: Kardak Ete, J.), 23 January 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time
- police personnel, Mahabhairab police outpost / Assam Police, Tezpur
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “I am inclined to direct that petitionerbe paid an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- (Rupees five lakhs) only as compensation.” (at para Para 24)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings
- The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
Judgment dated 23 January 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“I am inclined to direct that petitionerbe paid an amount of Rs. 5,00,000/- (Rupees five lakhs) only as compensation.” (para Para 24)
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Follow-up history
24 Sep 2026
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.