The Gauhati High Court held Assam Police and jail authorities responsible for the custodial death of a Khoomtai man, arrested on 12 May 2007 by Khoomtai outpost police though no FIR named him, and dead in Golaghat jail on 5 June 2007. The Court found all police records of his detention tampered with or fabricated, with arrest-related general diary entries made months after his death, and held the death in State custody was not natural. It awarded Rs 3,00,000 public-law damages to his mother, wife and minor son, recoverable from the officers, and directed registration of a criminal case under Sections 302/34 and 201 IPC. Shri [name withheld], from whom the court directed recovery of part of the Rs 3,00,000 compensation in equal proportion, is the Superintendent of the District Jail, Golaghat (prisons department), not a police officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 6 May 2009 in Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 25 of 2008, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: Jasti Chelameswar, Hrishikesh Roy, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Assistant Sub-Inspector (In-charge), Khoomtai Police Out Post, Kamargaon PS, Golaghat; Additional Superintendent of Police (HQ), Golaghat; Superintendent, District Jail, Golaghat, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
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“the death of a Khoomtai man, while in the custody of the State, does not appear to be a natural death and there is an utter failure on the part of the respondent officers of the State in protecting the …” (para 15)
The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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