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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0310",
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 "display_title": "Mohali Man vs State of Punjab",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mohali Man vs State of Punjab",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar",
 "district_at_time": "Rupnagar",
 "city_town": "Mohali",
 "police_station_or_unit": "CIA Staff Patiala",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mohali Man vs State of Punjab",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 3342 of 1989",
 "citation": "(1996) 3 RCR (Criminal) 752",
 "judges": [
  "V.K. Jhanji"
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 "judgment_date": "1996-07-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1996,
 "incident_date": "1989-09-01",
 "incident_year": 1989,
 "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": [
  "CrPC 197"
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   "rank": "Inspector",
   "unit": "CIA Staff Patiala",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
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   "grok": "no",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.43,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mohali man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mohali man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/144857/tarlochan-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india1007/india1007.htm",
  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b49491607dba348f00d611",
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/153425/karnail-singh-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-and-others-respondent-1/"
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 "summary": "The High Court of Punjab and Haryana held that CIA Staff Patiala police officers abducted and eliminated a Mohali man following a raid on a house in SAS Nagar (Mohali) in September 1989, in which his companion a Mohali man was shot dead. The Court accepted the report of the District and Sessions Judge, Chandigarh, rejecting the police's false claim that a Mohali man had escaped unarmed from an armed police cordon. The High Court directed the CBI to register a criminal case, investigate, and file a chargesheet against Inspector [name withheld] and ASI, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation to the deceased's family, recoverable from the accused upon conviction. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court of Punjab and Haryana held that CIA Staff Patiala police officers abducted and eliminated a Mohali man following a raid on a house in SAS Nagar (Mohali) in September 1989, in which his companion a Mohali man was shot dead. The Court accepted the report of the District and Sessions Judge, Chandigarh, rejecting the police's false claim that a Mohali man had escaped unarmed from an armed police cordon. The High Court directed the CBI to register a criminal case, investigate, and file a chargesheet against Inspector [name withheld] and ASI, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation to the deceased's family, recoverable from the accused upon conviction.",
 "court_quote": "the evidence both direct and circumstantial, as discussed above, inevitably points to the conclusion that a Mohali man was effectively captured from House No. 1752 and whisked away in the jeep parked at some distance from the aforesaid house to some undisclosed destination and his nonproduction before the Hon'ble High Court is indicative of his elimination in flagrant violation of law of the land",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Punjab & Haryana HC accepted inquiry finding that CIA Patiala police abducted and eliminated a Mohali man, ordered CBI prosecution and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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   "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"
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   "date": "1996-07-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
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   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "(1996) 3 RCR (Criminal) 752",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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