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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Maluka Man vs State of Punjab and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Maluka Man vs State of Punjab and others",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Bathinda",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Maluka",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Bhagta Bhalka",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Maluka Man vs State of Punjab and others",
 "case_number": "Crl. W.P. No. 769 of 1995",
 "citation": "ILR 2005(1) P&H 462",
 "judges": [
  "Surya Kant"
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 "judgment_date": "2005-02-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": "1992-04-03",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "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 364",
  "IPC 120-B"
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Police Post Bhagta Bhaika, Punjab Police",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Bhagta Bhaika, Punjab Police"
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   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Head Constable, Police Post Bhagta Bhaika, Punjab Police"
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 40,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maluka man, age 40"
  }
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 "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://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CRWP_769_1995.pdf",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Maluka man, aged about 40, was forcibly picked up from his house in village Maluka, Bathinda, on 3 April 1992 by ASI, Head Constable and a CRPF constable, and was never seen again. A District and Sessions Judge enquiry found the two Punjab Police officials abducted him and covered it up, leading the High Court to order a CBI investigation; the surviving officer was convicted under Section 364 IPC and sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by the Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala, in February 2003. The High Court held the forcible abduction and illegal detention conclusively proved and the State strictly liable for abusing the constitutional guarantee of life and liberty. It awarded Rs. 3,00,000 compensation (Rs. 1,50,000 to widow [name withheld] and Rs. 1,50,000 shared by six children), recoverable by the State from the guilty officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Maluka man, aged about 40, was forcibly picked up from his house in village Maluka, Bathinda, on 3 April 1992 by ASI, Head Constable and a CRPF constable, and was never seen again. A District and Sessions Judge enquiry found the two Punjab Police officials abducted him and covered it up, leading the High Court to order a CBI investigation; the surviving officer was convicted under Section 364 IPC and sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by the Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala, in February 2003. The High Court held the forcible abduction and illegal detention conclusively proved and the State strictly liable for abusing the constitutional guarantee of life and liberty. It awarded Rs. 3,00,000 compensation (Rs. 1,50,000 to widow [name withheld] and Rs. 1,50,000 shared by six children), recoverable by the State from the guilty officials.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, forcible abduction and illegal detention of the victim by the police officials stands conclusively proved.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "P&H HC held forcible abduction and illegal detention conclusively proved after CBI-trial conviction u/s 364 IPC, awarding Rs 3 lakh to widow and six children.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "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": "2005-02-09",
   "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": "ILR 2005(1) P&H 462",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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