The High Court held that the arrest of the 60-year-old man picked up after midnight was illegal. The High Court held that the man had died while in illegal police custody after being taken to Kalain Patrol Post. The High Court directed the State to pay Rs.5,00,000 as palliative compensation to the petitioner for…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe Division Bench held seven Assam Police personnel, led by the then Superintendent of Police [name withheld], involved in the kidnapping, torture and murder in custody of a Haflong man, picked up at gunpoint from his home on 24 April 2020. Relying on CID Charge Sheet No. 6 of 2021, the Court found the victim was…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court held that the killing of cultivator a Kokrajhar man in a joint police-Army ambush near Bismuri outpost on 28 December 2016 was an avoidable encounter infringing Article 21. While stopping short of calling the ambush staged, the Court found laxity on intelligence inputs and a sudden, hurried…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court dismissed the writ petition of probationer Sub-Inspector and upheld his removal from service for extortion committed during naka duty at Umru on 31 May 2023. The Court found that personnel under his command took Rs 30,000 from the pocket of bike-rider a Baithalangso resident, with further…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the petitioner, a bystander near a road-accident protest site, suffered a bullet injury when the police opened fire. The High Court held that the firing was done without warning or superior orders and amounted to gross state violence. The High Court directed the respondent authorities to pay…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court held the State of Assam liable to pay Rs.3,00,000 compensation to the next of kin of undertrial a Silapathar man, who died on 30 October 2015 after falling from a running escort bus near Jalakiasuti while being brought back from Jonai court to Dhemaji District Jail in police custody. The Court…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court upheld the removal from service of Armed Branch Constable of Golaghat DEF for misconduct. Served a show-cause notice in September 2003 for maintaining an illegal relationship with a named woman while posted for duty, he was removed by the SP Golaghat in August 2005, affirmed by the DIG in May…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court held that the handcuffing and parading of advocate a Guwahati man, without just cause being shown, violated his human rights under Article 21 and demeaned his dignity to practise his profession. Called to Panbazar Police Station on 5 October 2016, he was detained, arrested in PS Case No.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, serving as CVO of NEEPCO on central deputation, gave an interview to India Today on 2-3 March 2016 in official NEEPCO premises at Guwahati without authority, commenting on the Ishrat Jahan encounter investigation and…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to advocate's clerk a Guwahati man for unauthorised detention and torture at Panbazar Police Station from 21 to 23 August 2011. The Court found he was kept confined without arrest and subjected to inhuman torture in connection with a bail-bond forgery probe…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], CISF Constable. 894340365 on internal security duty at Oil Duliajan, was charge-sheeted for abusing Head Constable on 01.04.2006 and threatening on the counting parade that he could use his service weapon and 100 rounds to kill him…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a CRPF constable of F/116 Battalion at Dhaligaon, Assam, challenged his June 2006 dismissal for deserting camp twice for 14 and 84 days while undergoing a confinement punishment. The court found he had initially participated in the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. CISF Constable of the ONGC Jorhat unit faced three charges that on 22 September 2001, under the influence of liquor, he created a nuisance in the Jorhat mess abusing a head constable and constable, insulted two inspectors by throwing his cap…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 to the widow of head teacher a Mushalpur man, who died in custody at Mushalpur Out Post on 26 October 2007 after being detained the previous day for interrogation. While unconvinced of physical torture, the Court held the police grossly negligent: a Home Guard let the…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court (B.D. Agarwal, J.) set aside the Magistrate's acquittal and convicted Karimganj SP under Section 323 IPC for the custodial beating of detenue a Karimganj man @ a Karimganj man on 20-21 June 2000. The Court held the trial court had discarded one-sided prosecution evidence on flimsy grounds…
Read the court recordThe 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 dacoits, but villagers deposed that the police beat them with…
Read the court recordThe 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 vicariously liable for failure to protect + D.K. Basu…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. remove 'Sub-Inspector' naming unless sourced; state police version (para 8). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. add police version (denied picking her up; encounter with ULFA camp, blood trails, no arrest — paras 7-10); keep: habeas petition, 20.4.2005 Kalapahar operation, never produced, Rs 2L to parents via RG in 2 months + recovery after enquiry, DGP…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court held that a police party led by Additional SP picked up a Bokajan woman in an injured condition during an anti-insurgency operation in the Kalapahar forest on 20 April 2005, in front of villagers, and never produced her before any Magistrate. The Court raised the presumption that she had been…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. fix duplicated phrase '14-year-old Class IX student a 14-year-old boy'; state police version (accidental fall from bamboo bridge — paras 13, 16). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordremove '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 withheld] is named only as an accused in CBI FIR RC-6/S/2001…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court sustained the convictions of four Malugram Town Outpost policemen for torturing detainee a Silchar man to death over 24-26 August 1996. Arrested on the night of 24 August, he was repeatedly taken from the lock-up and assaulted at the appellants' will, sustaining 41 injuries to which the Court…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court allowed a writ petition seeking compensation for the custodial death of a Mathurapur man, who died in District Jail, Sivasagar on October 21, 1999, after arrest by Mathurapur police. The Court rejected the District Judge's inquiry finding that had burdened the petitioner to prove physical…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court (B.B. Deb, J.) allowed the writ petition arising from the death of a Dhupdhara man, arrested on 8 September 1997 and found hanged inside the Dhupdhara police lock-up the same afternoon. The Court rejected the torture-murder allegation on the post-mortem evidence but held the death was a suicide…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court (Justice D. Biswas) awarded Rs 5 lakh to 65-year-old Jagat Dhar Sharma for the admitted on-duty gunshot killing of his 29-year-old engineer son [name withheld] on R.G. Baruah Road, Guwahati, on 24 October 1997. The Court found that armed constable, after quarrelling with a tea-stall keeper…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court disposed of the writ petition of the wife and children of a Pachim Boragaon, Guwahati man, arrested on 27.11.1998 in a Dispur dacoity case and shot dead the same day by his police escort near Pachim Boragaon. Adopting the District Judge (Kamrup) enquiry report, the court found the handcuffed…
Read the court recordThe 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 the Darrang District Judge enquiry, including eyewitness…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. College student a Morigaon man (24) was picked up from his Morigaon home on 6 August 1994 by a team including SI Nakhyatra Bora with SULFA members and CRPF, seen in the Morigaon lockup, then shot dead at point-blank range in a staged encounter at…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court held Noonmati police guilty of torturing 25-year-old deaf-mute, mentally retarded a Guwahati man in the lock-up on 2 January 1995. The Court accepted the Additional District Judge's enquiry finding that the boy, picked up on false charges, was beaten through the night sustaining fractures in…
Read the court recordOn 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…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court held that a Bar Tapa man, though an admitted hardcore ULFA member, was killed by Assam Police personnel in a cold-blooded manner at Bar Tapa on 3 June 1995 rather than in genuine cross-firing. Agreeing with the Barpeta District Judge's enquiry, the court found no bona fide attempt to apprehend…
Read the court recordremove/replace final sentence; SP report + affidavit + apology recorded and rejected by the Court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 18 March 1970 allowed the State's appeal and restored the dismissal of Sub-Inspector, formerly in charge of Sorbhog police station in Assam. The Court found that the enquiry had proved neglect of reported cognizable offences, acquisition of unexplained assets, and concealment through a false 1957…
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