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 "record_id": "CW-1999-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0568",
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 "display_title": "Malerkotla Man v. State of Punjab & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Malerkotla Man v. State of Punjab & Ors.",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Malerkotla",
 "district_at_time": "Sangrur",
 "city_town": "Malerkotla",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police (Sangrur/Patiala); PS Malerkotla (FIR No. 21 of 1993)",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Malerkotla Man v. State of Punjab & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 220 of 1997",
 "citation": "2000(3) RCR (Crl) 403",
 "judges": [
  "T.H.B. Chalapathi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1999-09-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1999,
 "incident_date": "1993-03-13",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "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": 0.1,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Punjab Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Punjab Police (headed encounter party)",
   "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": 0.91,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.07,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Punjab Police (headed encounter party)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Malerkotla man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 150000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/152581/gurbachan-kaur-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-respondent-1/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Replace limits sentence with the recorded police case: Inspector denied involvement and disputed the inquiry report (para 3); SSP Sangrur stated a Malerkotla man escaped custody, joined terrorists and was killed in the encounter with Inspector's party, FIR 21/1993 (para 4). Delete the Malerkotla-district sentence (compiler-added, unattributed). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Replace limits sentence with the recorded police case: Inspector denied involvement and disputed the inquiry report (para 3); SSP Sangrur stated a Malerkotla man escaped custody, joined terrorists and was killed in the encounter with Inspector's party, FIR 21/1993 (para 4). Delete the Malerkotla-district sentence (compiler-added, unattributed).",
 "court_quote": "On the facts and circumstances of the case, I have no manner of doubt that the son of the petitioner [name withheld] alias a Malerkotla man was eliminated by the Govt. officials.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Law student on parole eliminated in fake encounter near Malerkotla; Rs 1.5L 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": "1999-09-28",
   "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 150,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2000(3) RCR (Crl) 403",
   "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": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/152581/gurbachan-kaur-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-respondent-1/",
   "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": [
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 "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-034",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}