# Maibang Resident vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors

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## Report card

By judgment dated 26 August 2026 in WP(C)/652/2018, 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 0003
- Case reference: WP(C)/652/2018 / 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 firing party, Maibang railway station)
- 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 …” (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://indiankanoon.org/doc/157052802/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2026-0055)

**Record:** CW-2026-0055 (compiler id CWC-0918); case ASSAM-010
**Title:** Maibang Resident vs The State of Assam and 4 Ors
**Court:** Gauhati High Court; judges: Kalyan Rai Surana; N. Unni Krishnan Nair
**Case number / citation:** WP(C)/652/2018 / 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 firing party, Maibang railway station; 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 resident; 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 Gauhati High Court Division Bench held that Assam Police firing on protesters at Maibang railway station on 25 January 2018 violated the victims' fundamental rights, awarding Rs. 3 lakh each to the families of the two deceased and Rs. 2 lakh each to three seriously injured persons (Rs. 12 lakh total), payable within three months. The Court accepted that protesters had turned violent and pelted stones, but found police fired from the railway platform onto protesters on the tracks causing bullet injuries above the waist, showing lack of understanding of the situation. It held the doctrine of sovereign immunity does not apply to fundamental-rights violations and that the State, not individual personnel, would bear the exemplary public-law damages. 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 (3):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157052802/); [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)
**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 vs The State of Assam and 4 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote', 'court_quote_para'\]}
**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://indiankanoon.org/doc/157052802/', '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}
**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:** Primary judgment verified: Maibang firing violated Art 21, Rs 12 lakh total compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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