Darrang, Assam

High Court and Supreme Court findings 4

• Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 29 July 2011 · Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000) ordered
  The Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of rickshaw puller a Mangaldoi man, who died after a Mangaldoi police party led by SI apprehended him and his brother at Gariapara on 13 July 1999. The police claimed a mob had manhandled the alleged daco…
• Khoirabari Man vs State of Assam and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 20 August 2010 · Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000) ordered
  The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. rewrite: continuous custody 16-19.1.95 with manipulated GD entries/PR bond (paras 8.3-8.6, 12, 14); post-mortem inconclusive so torture-death not established with certainty (para 15); State …
• State of Assam v. Tarulata Devi High Court / Supreme Court · 16 June 2006 · Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000) ordered
  remove 'after the Supreme Court's remand' (no SC mention in either judgment); remove or source 'ULFA' (TADA context only, SJ mentions TADA once re co-accused; 'ULFA' nowhere); state police version (escape bid, fall on handcuff — DB paras 8, 11, 15). [name with…
• Mangaldoi Man vs State of Assam and Ors. High Court / Supreme Court · 26 April 2001 · Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000) ordered
  The High Court held that 25-year-old [name withheld], arrested in a TADA case by a Khairabari PS party in the early hours of 4 December 1994, was assaulted and tortured to death by police while in custody at Mangaldoi Police Station the same night. Relying on …