{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0068", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chandigarh Man v. State (Union Territory of Chandigarh) and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Chandigarh Man v. State (Union Territory of Chandigarh) and Others", "state": "Chandigarh", "district": "Chandigarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chandigarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chandigarh Man v. State (Union Territory of Chandigarh) and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 11943 of 2007", "citation": "(2007) 10 P&H CK 0167", "judges": [ "Uma Nath Singh", "Rajive Bhalla" ], "judgment_date": "2007-10-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2007-07-11", "incident_year": 2007, "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 304", "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 227" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.16, "jev_p_culpable": 0.82, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 21, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Chandigarh man, age 21" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 995000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/174790/phoolwati-appellant-hash-state-union-territory-of-chandigarh-and-others-respondent-1/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b4948c607dba348f00d236" ], "summary": "A Division Bench partly allowed the writ of Phoolwati, mother of 21-year-old a Chandigarh man, who died in custody at PS Manimajra on 11 July 2007 after being taken to SI 's first-floor room and found fallen from a height. The Court accepted the SDM's magisterial enquiry finding the SI guilty of negligence and gross dereliction, noted D.K. Basu violations including no arrest memo or intimation, and awarded Rs 9.95 lakh compensation computed on multiplier principles, payable by the UT Administration within three months. It declined the CBI-transfer prayer as the Crime Branch probe, magisterial enquiry, post-mortem and CCTV record left little scope for further investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench partly allowed the writ of Phoolwati, mother of 21-year-old a Chandigarh man, who died in custody at PS Manimajra on 11 July 2007 after being taken to SI 's first-floor room and found fallen from a height. The Court accepted the SDM's magisterial enquiry finding the SI guilty of negligence and gross dereliction, noted D.K. Basu violations including no arrest memo or intimation, and awarded Rs 9.95 lakh compensation computed on multiplier principles, payable by the UT Administration within three months. It declined the CBI-transfer prayer as the Crime Branch probe, magisterial enquiry, post-mortem and CCTV record left little scope for further investigation.", "court_quote": "In the instant case, a Magisterial enquiry was ordered after the incident and a SDM (an IAS officer) was assigned that job who on a detailed and thorough enquiry has found accused [name withheld]. 6 [name withheld] guilty of negligence and gross dereliction in performance of his duties by not making provision for guarding of the deceased during his stay in the Police Station between 12.57 noon to 3.00 PM on the date of the incident.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 9.95L for Manimajra custodial death; agent IK link is the later bail order in same FIR, not this judgment.", "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": "2007-10-09", "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 995,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 10 P&H CK 0167", "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/174790/phoolwati-appellant-hash-state-union-territory-of-chandigarh-and-others-respondent-1/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b4948c607dba348f00d236", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }