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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1058",
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 "display_title": "State of Punjab and Others Rajpura Man",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Punjab and Others Rajpura Man",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Patiala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Rajpura",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police (van PNE 4615 escort party)",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Punjab and Others Rajpura Man",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "AIR 1975 P&H 294",
 "judges": [
  "Bal Raj Tuli"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1975-02-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1975,
 "incident_date": "1957-07-16",
 "incident_year": 1957,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 22"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable (driver)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (driver), Punjab Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Rajpura man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 40000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/639744/",
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 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the State's appeal and upheld the Rs 40,000 damages decree against the State and constable-driver [name withheld] in favour of lawyer a Rajpura man, a Save Hindi agitation volunteer arrested at Chandigarh station on 15 July 1957, detained at Chandimandar and then conveyed at night in police van PNE 4615. The court held the arrest without warrant, non-production before a Magistrate and conveyance for dispersal were without statutory authority and not a sovereign function. It found the exhausted driver, whose plea for relief was refused, dozed off near Rajpura and struck a tree, crushing the plaintiff's left arm — negligence, not an act of God. The suit against AIG A.[name withheld] was dismissed and nothing was awarded for the detention itself; all then in undivided Punjab. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the State's appeal and upheld the Rs 40,000 damages decree against the State and constable-driver [name withheld] in favour of lawyer a Rajpura man, a Save Hindi agitation volunteer arrested at Chandigarh station on 15 July 1957, detained at Chandimandar and then conveyed at night in police van PNE 4615. The court held the arrest without warrant, non-production before a Magistrate and conveyance for dispersal were without statutory authority and not a sovereign function. It found the exhausted driver, whose plea for relief was refused, dozed off near Rajpura and struck a tree, crushing the plaintiff's left arm — negligence, not an act of God. The suit against AIG A.[name withheld] was dismissed and nothing was awarded for the detention itself; all then in undivided Punjab.",
 "court_quote": "That the driver was at fault and negligent in the performance of his duties, is abundantly clear on the record.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 40,000 decree against named constable-driver and State upheld on appeal. Compensable wrong is negligent injury in custody, not the detention itself.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Other",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1975-02-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 40,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "AIR 1975 P&H 294",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/639744/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-109-005",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}