{ "record_id": "CW-1992-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0528", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kharar Man vs [name withheld] and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Kharar Man vs [name withheld] and Another", "state": "Punjab", "district": "Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar", "district_at_time": "Rupnagar", "city_town": "Kharar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Kharar", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kharar Man vs [name withheld] and Another", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 211 of 1991", "citation": "1992 ACJ 1011", "judges": [ "G. S. Chahal" ], "judgment_date": "1992-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1992, "incident_date": "1991-02-01", "incident_year": 1991, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kharar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/766802/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/116567/gurmukh-singh-appellant-hash-harbans-lal-and-another-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice G. S. Chahal) held on the father's habeas petition that Punjab Police caused the disappearance of a Kharar man after arresting him at Kharar on 6 February 1991 and detaining him without justification or recovery. The court rejected the police abscondance account as false and a lame excuse, accepting the Sessions Judge Ropar's inquiry findings of arrest with ulterior motive. It held the State liable for its officers and ordered Rs 50,000 compensation (Rs 10,000 to each parent, Rs 20,000 to the wife, Rs 10,000 in fixed deposit for the minor child) within two months, with 12% interest on default. No individual officer is named in the order's findings and no prosecution was directed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice G. S. Chahal) held on the father's habeas petition that Punjab Police caused the disappearance of a Kharar man after arresting him at Kharar on 6 February 1991 and detaining him without justification or recovery. The court rejected the police abscondance account as false and a lame excuse, accepting the Sessions Judge Ropar's inquiry findings of arrest with ulterior motive. It held the State liable for its officers and ordered Rs 50,000 compensation (Rs 10,000 to each parent, Rs 20,000 to the wife, Rs 10,000 in fixed deposit for the minor child) within two months, with 12% interest on default. No individual officer is named in the order's findings and no prosecution was directed.", "court_quote": "After hearing the learned counsel, I accept the arguments of Mr. Navkiran Singh that the police has caused disappearance of a Kharar man The State is liable for the action of its officers for such matters.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held police caused custodial disappearance; Rs 50,000 to family.", "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": "1992-02-05", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1992 ACJ 1011", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "officers", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/766802/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/116567/gurmukh-singh-appellant-hash-harbans-lal-and-another-respondent/", "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-33" ], "merged_case_id": "SWENFORC-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }