The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. On 25 January 2018, an anti-Greater Nagalim protest at Maibang Railway Station turned violent with railway property damaged and stones pelted, and police firing from the platform killed a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident and seriously injured a Maibang woman, a Maibang resident and a Maibang resident The Court declined to hold the firing unprovoked but found the above-waist bullet injuries established excessive force violating the victims' fundamental rights, holding sovereign immunity no defence to such violations. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 each to the families of the two deceased and Rs 2,00,000 each to the three injured (Rs 12,00,000 total) within three months, borne by the State. Subcategory corrected from fake encounter to disproportionate force: this was excessive crowd-control firing, not a staged encounter. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 26 August 2026 in WP(C) No. 652 of 2018, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: Kalyan Rai Surana, N. Unni Krishnan Nair, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 12 lakh (Rs 12,00,000).
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Judgment dated 26 August 2026. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“The nature of injuries, projected to have been suffered by the victims, would go to reveal that either on account of the lack of understanding of the situation and/or being so distracted by the stone pelting incident occasioning in the …” (para 16)
The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,200,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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