The Tripura High Court dismissed the appeal of TSR Rifleman and affirmed his conviction under Section 302 IPC and sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life with a Rs 50,000 fine for shooting dead two colleagues at Konaban camp on 4 December 2021. The Court held the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that he…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Tripura High Court records the following account. A Division Bench took suo motu PIL on a newspaper report that a 28-year-old woman called for interrogation in an unverified theft complaint was beaten in the GB TOP lockup on 26 October 2021 without any arrest or case. Rejecting the State's denial…
Read the court recordThe Tripura High Court (Division Bench) held that 27-year-old a Sonamura man @ a Sonamura man died of custodial torture in the Sonamura police lock-up in the night between 14-09-2021 and 15-09-2021. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem showing fresh ante-mortem injuries, the court rejected the State's…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court (Prabhat Kumar Jha J.) on 26 April 2017 dismissed the writ petition of CRPF Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted at Agartala he reported intoxicated for medical examination on 1 November 1999, disobeyed orderly duty, absented from barracks without…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court (Agartala Division Bench) dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for the custodial death of 16-year-old a 16-year-old boy, affirming single judge W.A. Shishak's 23-06-1999 order in Civil Rule 482/1998. The court held he was subjected to brutal police torture in Ambassa…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court Division Bench disposed of a writ petition registered on an advocate's fax complaint about NSA detenu [name withheld], an Amarpur advocate. The court accepted the judicial-enquiry finding that an Amarpur to Udaipur man was mercilessly beaten by his police escort led by Inspector en route from…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court allowed the first appeal of Ranubala Sutradhar and set aside the trial court's dismissal of her damages suit. The court recorded that her 18-year-old son [name withheld], arrested for theft on the night of 25.04.1976, was found dead in the Kotwali (Agartala) lock-up on the morning of 26.04.1976.…
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