On 15 February 1996, 19-year-old student a Pengaree man was caught by two constables while awaiting conveyance, beaten, and taken to Pengaree outpost; on 16 February his family found his body in the lock-up with blood from the nose and bruises, while police claimed he hanged himself. The hale-and-hearty boy with no criminal background died in custody and police buried the body in haste, denying the family rites. The court held police personnel could not escape responsibility for the custodial death and directed the State to pay Rs.2,00,000 compensation to the widowed mother through the Deputy Commissioner, Tinsukia. Full text verified via the courtkutchehry mirror. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
This page documents a court-adjudicated case from the judgment and cited sources below. Findings are attributed to the court; this record does not add findings of its own.
How verification works →By judgment dated 4 February 1999 in Civil Rule No. 2163 of 1996, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: M. Sharma, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
The Gauhati High Court judgment dated 4 February 1999 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Holding not recorded separately.
“Taking into consideration of the entire facts and circumstances of the case, the police personnel cannot escape the responsibilities of custodial death of the deceased at Pengaree Police Out Post.” (para 7)
The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
These records are listed together because they share a state or a topic. That does not mean they are connected.
