{
 "record_id": "CW-2011-0001",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0160",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Pundri Boy and another vs The State of Haryana and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pundri Boy and another vs The State of Haryana and others",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Kaithal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pundri",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Pundri",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pundri Boy and another vs The State of Haryana and others",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 11653 of 2008",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Ranjit Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2011-01-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2011,
 "incident_date": "2007-08-13",
 "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": [
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "CrPC s.176(1A)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Police Station Pundri",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "grok:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.23,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.78,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station Pundri"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Police Station Pundri",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "grok:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.78,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.46,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Pundri"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pundri boy, age 16",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pundri man",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a 16-year-old boy"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "a man"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1000000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/132005687/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. a 16-year-old boy (16) and a man died of celphos poisoning while locked up at Police Station Pundri, Kaithal, following an alleged illegal detention on 11 August 2007. Official inquiries revealed gross police negligence and tampering with custody timings by SHO. The High Court held the police strictly liable for the lives of detainees in their custody under Article 21 and directed the State of Haryana to pay Rs. 5,00,000 to each victim's family. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Virender Kumar (16) and Satnam died of celphos poisoning while locked up at Police Station Pundri, Kaithal, following an alleged illegal detention on 11 August 2007. Official inquiries revealed gross police negligence and tampering with custody timings by SHO. The High Court held the police strictly liable for the lives of detainees in their custody under Article 21 and directed the State of Haryana to pay Rs. 5,00,000 to each victim's family.",
 "court_quote": "Two persons have died while in police custody. To keep them safe and to safeguard their lives was the responsibility of the police. The police officials are, therefore, liable.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court held police strictly liable for custodial poisoning deaths of two detainees at PS Pundri and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation to each family (Rs 10 lakh total).",
 "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": "2011-01-12",
   "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 1,000,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Civil Writ Petition No. 11653 of 2008",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/132005687/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "NORTH-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}