{ "record_id": "CW-1996-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0534", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Amritsar Man v. State of Punjab and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Amritsar Man v. State of Punjab and Ors.", "state": "Punjab", "district": "Amritsar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Tarn Taran Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Amritsar Man v. State of Punjab and Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 497 of 1996", "citation": null, "judges": [], "judgment_date": "1996-08-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1995-09-06", "incident_year": 1995, "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": [ "IPC 365" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Senior Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Tarn Taran Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.73, "jev_p_culpable": 0.18, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Senior Superintendent of Police, Tarn Taran Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Punjab Police", "role": "held_liable", "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": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Punjab Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.78, "jev_p_culpable": 0.15, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police" } ], "officer_count": 7, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Amritsar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://ia600701.us.archive.org/17/items/JaswantSinghKhalra-AMartyrForHumanRights/JaswantSinghKhalra-AMartyrForHumanRights.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80798392/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/342168/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/153425/karnail-singh-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-and-others-respondent-1/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court, on Paramjit Kaur's habeas petition for her husband [name withheld] abducted on 6 September 1995, ordered a CBI inquiry and then prosecution of the officials on the CBI report, directing Punjab to pay Rs 10 lakh interim compensation recoverable from the officers on conviction. The Court called kidnapping that leaves a family in the dark about whether the victim is alive or dead the worst crime against humanity. The unreported Record of Proceedings is corroborated by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in [name withheld] (2001), which records the date and amount. The officials were later convicted at trial with convictions upheld to the Supreme Court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court, on Paramjit Kaur's habeas petition for her husband [name withheld] abducted on 6 September 1995, ordered a CBI inquiry and then prosecution of the officials on the CBI report, directing Punjab to pay Rs 10 lakh interim compensation recoverable from the officers on conviction. The Court called kidnapping that leaves a family in the dark about whether the victim is alive or dead the worst crime against humanity. The unreported Record of Proceedings is corroborated by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in [name withheld] (2001), which records the date and amount. The officials were later convicted at trial with convictions upheld to the Supreme Court.", "court_quote": "Kidnapping of a person whose family is totally in dark about his whereabouts - even about the fact whether he is alive or dead - is the worst crime against humanity.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC ordered prosecution on CBI report plus Rs 10L interim compensation; order corroborated by [name withheld] (2001).", "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": "1996-08-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 497 of 1996", "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": [ "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://ia600701.us.archive.org/17/items/JaswantSinghKhalra-AMartyrForHumanRights/JaswantSinghKhalra-AMartyrForHumanRights.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80798392/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/342168/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/153425/karnail-singh-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-and-others-respondent-1/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-40" ], "merged_case_id": "SWENFORC-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }