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 "record_id": "CW-2001-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0302",
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 "display_title": "Nawanshahr Man vs State of Punjab",
 "display_title_redacted": "Nawanshahr Man vs State of Punjab",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar",
 "district_at_time": "Nawanshahr",
 "city_town": "Nawanshahr",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Nawanshahr",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Nawanshahr Man vs State of Punjab",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2001(3) RCR(Crl.) 569",
 "judges": [
  "M.L. Singhal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2001-05-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1993-01-11",
 "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": [
  "IPC 302",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
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   "rank": "Inspector",
   "unit": "Police Station Nawanshahr",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.33,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.77,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Police Station Nawanshahr"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Nawanshahr",
   "role": "named_only",
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    "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,
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   "jev_risk": 0.92,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.09,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nawanshahr"
  }
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 35,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Nawanshahr man, age 35"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/151445/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=611002996000&title=pritam-singh-vs-state-of-punjab"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A 35-year-old bank branch manager was handed over by his father [name withheld] to Inspector, SHO, on 29 December 1992 and was never released; police claimed he escaped from handcuffs during a terrorist ambush on 11 January 1993 while being taken for arms recovery. Two successive Sessions Judge enquiries rejected the ambush and escape story as not believable and found prima facie that the branch manager was eliminated in a stage-managed encounter, holding Inspector liable. The High Court directed the SHO to register a murder case, with investigation by an officer not below SP rank from outside Jalandhar range within four months. Holding the State vicariously liable for murder by its functionaries, the Court awarded Rs. 3,00,000 shared equally by widow [name withheld] and three children. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A 35-year-old bank branch manager was handed over by his father [name withheld] to Inspector, SHO, on 29 December 1992 and was never released; police claimed he escaped from handcuffs during a terrorist ambush on 11 January 1993 while being taken for arms recovery. Two successive Sessions Judge enquiries rejected the ambush and escape story as not believable and found prima facie that the branch manager was eliminated in a stage-managed encounter, holding Inspector liable. The High Court directed the SHO to register a murder case, with investigation by an officer not below SP rank from outside Jalandhar range within four months. Holding the State vicariously liable for murder by its functionaries, the Court awarded Rs. 3,00,000 shared equally by widow [name withheld] and three children.",
 "court_quote": "Encounter as alleged and escape of [name withheld] was just stage managed to eliminate [name withheld].",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "P&H HC held the branch manager eliminated in stage-managed encounter fixing liability on Inspector, ordering murder-case registration and Rs 3 lakh 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": "2001-05-10",
   "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 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2001(3) RCR(Crl.) 569",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWENFORC-015",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}