{ "record_id": "CW-1984-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0890", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhiwani Man vs [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "Bhiwani Man vs [name withheld]", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Bhiwani", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhiwani", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhiwani Man vs [name withheld]", "case_number": "Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1982", "citation": "(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029", "judges": [ "B.S. Yadav" ], "judgment_date": "1984-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1984, "incident_date": "1980-05-03", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 330", "IPC 323", "Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.4(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bhiwani man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1782919/" ], "summary": "SHO of Police Station City Bhiwani arrested complainant [name withheld] on 3 May 1980 after a gold-smuggling search of his shop and house recovered nothing, and the judgment records that the SHO tortured him in custody to extort money before handing him to Central Excise inspectors who also beat him. The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhiwani, convicted the SHO under Sections 330 and 323 IPC on 17 November 1980 but released him on one year's probation, and both sides' appeals were dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge. In revision the High Court held that probation had been granted without calling for the Probation Officer's report, in breach of the mandatory Section 4(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. It left the conviction undisturbed, set aside the probation orders, and remanded the case to the trial court for fresh orders on sentence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "SHO of Police Station City Bhiwani arrested complainant [name withheld] on 3 May 1980 after a gold-smuggling search of his shop and house recovered nothing, and the judgment records that the SHO tortured him in custody to extort money before handing him to Central Excise inspectors who also beat him. The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhiwani, convicted the SHO under Sections 330 and 323 IPC on 17 November 1980 but released him on one year's probation, and both sides' appeals were dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge. In revision the High Court held that probation had been granted without calling for the Probation Officer's report, in breach of the mandatory Section 4(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. It left the conviction undisturbed, set aside the probation orders, and remanded the case to the trial court for fresh orders on sentence.", "court_quote": "After completion of the trial, the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate convicted the respondent under section 330 and 323 of the Code and gave him benefit of Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (for short the Act) and released him on probation for one year.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Conviction u/ss 330/323 IPC left intact; probation set aside and remanded for fresh sentence — conviction_upheld.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1984-01-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029", "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1782919/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-74" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }