# Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.

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## Report card

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).

- Register number: AS 08 CW 0002
- Case reference: WP(C) No. 652 of 2018 / 2026:GAU-AS:12436
- Court and date: Gauhati High Court (Coram: Kalyan Rai Surana, N. Unni Krishnan Nair, JJ.), 26 August 2026
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Assam Police (Dima Hasao); Maibang PS)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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 …” (at para 16)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 12 lakh (Rs 12,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/29/2026gau-as12436-verdictum-1783356.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2026-0036)

**Record:** CW-2026-0036 (compiler id CWC-0527); case SWDISPRO-024; aliases: CWC-0649
**Title:** Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & Ors.
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: Kalyan Rai Surana; N. Unni Krishnan Nair
**Case number / citation:** WP(C) No. 652 of 2018 / 2026:GAU-AS:12436
**Judgment:** 2026-08-26 (2026, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2018-01-25 (2018)
**Place:** Dima Hasao, Assam; city town: Maibang; police station or unit: Assam Police (Dima Hasao); Maibang PS; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** disproportionate force
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Maibang resident; Maibang resident; Maibang woman; Maibang resident; Maibang resident (5 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 12 lakh (Rs 12,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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 matter, the firing incident had also resulted in the victims suffering bullet injuries, above their waist also. Accordingly, in view of the injuries sustained by the petitioners, a case of violation of their fundamental rights is found to have been made out.

**Sources (4):** [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/29/2026gau-as12436-verdictum-1783356.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-police-firing-maibang-protest-violated-victims-fundamental-rights-court-award-12-lakh-compensation-549680); [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/10/displayphp-699497.pdf)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** disproportionate_force
**allegations:** {'category': 'Protest policing', '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:** 16
**display title redacted:** Maibang Resident v. State of Assam & 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': '2026-08-26', '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 1,200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2026:GAU-AS:12436', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/29/2026gau-as12436-verdictum-1783356.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gauhati-high-court/gauhati-high-court-police-firing-maibang-protest-violated-victims-fundamental-rights-court-award-12-lakh-compensation-549680', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/guwahati-high-court/2026-gauas-12436-richard-sangyung-v-state-of-assam-1620866', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/10/displayphp-699497.pdf', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** disproportionate force
**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:** Above-waist bullet injuries showed excessive force on Maibang protesters; Rs 12L total.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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