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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0736",
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 "display_title": "Barnala Man v. State of Punjab",
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 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Barnala",
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 "city_town": "Barnala",
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 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Barnala Man v. State of Punjab",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 332-DB of 1998 with Criminal Misc. No. 35100 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Mehtab S. Gill",
  "Jitendra Chauhan"
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 "judgment_date": "2009-09-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1996-06-20",
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 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
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 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
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  "CrPC s.482",
  "Constitution Art. 21"
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   "name_public": "Darshan Singh",
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   "name": "Darshan Singh",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Darshan Singh",
   "display": "Darshan Singh (Deputy Superintendent of Police)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Madan Gopal",
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Barnala",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Madan Gopal",
   "display": "Madan Gopal (Superintendent of Police)"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Barnala man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
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  },
  {
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   "age": null,
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   "descriptor": "Barnala man"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
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  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "compensation_inr": 10000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1692258/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Replace final sentence with: The prosecution case (PW7 statement) and the State's reply narrating FIR No.171/2008 are set out in the judgment; counsel for SI Sarabjit Rai, DSP Darshan Singh and SP Madan Gopal expressly declined to address merits lest it prejudice their clients in proceedings the court might initiate. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Replace final sentence with: The prosecution case (PW7 statement) and the State's reply narrating FIR No.171/2008 are set out in the judgment; counsel for SI Sarabjit Rai, DSP Darshan Singh and SP Madan Gopal expressly declined to address merits lest it prejudice their clients in proceedings the court might initiate.",
 "court_quote": "Perjury has been committed by the complainant party and the Investigating Officers. They stated lies before the learned trial Court, to get a favourable verdict of conviction against the appellants, which they succeeded in doing so.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held police fabricated murder case, acquitted 5, awarded Rs 20 lakh each + s.340 perjury; subcategory corrected.",
 "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": "2009-09-23",
   "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 10,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 332-DB of 1998 with Criminal Misc. No. 35100 of 2009",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
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  {
   "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"
   ]
  }
 ],
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-096",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}