{ "record_id": "CW-2000-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0886", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Narwana Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Narwana Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Jind", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Narwana", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Narwana Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1263 of 1996", "citation": "(2000) 2 RCR (Criminal) 560", "judges": [ "K. S. Kumaran" ], "judgment_date": "2000-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1996-07-29", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "Excise Act s.61(1)(14)", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226/227" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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": "Head Constable, Police Station Sadar Narwana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Sadar Narwana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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 Sadar Narwana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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, Narwana" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 41, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Narwana man, age 41" } ], "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/154381/rajwant-kaur-and-others-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court accepted a Sessions Judge's enquiry finding that a Narwana man, 41, was illegally arrested and murdered in the custody of Police Station Sadar Narwana on the night of 28-29 July 1996 by being given alcohol laced with aluminium phosphide. The court rejected the police and co-detainee accounts as unreliable, held the State vicariously liable under Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu, and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation payable within two months. It transferred investigation of FIR No. 268 of 1996 under Section 302 IPC to the CBI for prosecution of the guilty, leaving individual culpability to that probe. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court accepted a Sessions Judge's enquiry finding that a Narwana man, 41, was illegally arrested and murdered in the custody of Police Station Sadar Narwana on the night of 28-29 July 1996 by being given alcohol laced with aluminium phosphide. The court rejected the police and co-detainee accounts as unreliable, held the State vicariously liable under Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu, and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation payable within two months. It transferred investigation of FIR No. 268 of 1996 under Section 302 IPC to the CBI for prosecution of the guilty, leaving individual culpability to that probe.", "court_quote": "Therefore, from the materials placed before the Court, especially the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory and the opinion of the Board of Doctors, who gave the opinion that a Narwana man died of aluminium phosphide (celphos) poisoning, it is clear that a Narwana man had been killed while he was in police custody by giving/infesting into him the ethyle alcohol and the above said poison.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held a Narwana man illegally arrested and murdered in custody by poisoning; Rs 1.5L compensation and CBI probe ordered.", "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 death", "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": "2000-03-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2000) 2 RCR (Criminal) 560", "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/154381/rajwant-kaur-and-others-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "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-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }