{ "record_id": "CW-2011-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0675", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police (SHO at the time) vs Union of India & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police (SHO at the time) vs Union of India & Ors.", "state": "Delhi", "district": "Central Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Subzi Mandi", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Subzi Mandi", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police (SHO at the time) vs Union of India & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(C) No.18511/2004", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Anil Kumar", "Veena Birbal" ], "judgment_date": "2011-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1980-08-06", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Commissioner of Police (SHO at the time)", "unit": "Police Station Subzi Mandi, Delhi Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Commissioner of Police (SHO at the time), Police Station Subzi Mandi, Delhi Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Subzi Mandi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27577082/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "In August 1980, a Subzi Mandi man @ a Subzi Mandi man was illegally detained at Andha Mughal police post under PS Subzi Mandi and died in custody on 6 August 1980; other personnel were convicted for the custodial death while the then SHO's role was pursued departmentally. The Court held the petitioner, as SHO, had knowledge of the illegal detention, took no action, and was instrumental in showing the death as suicide to hush up the matter. Finding grave misconduct and a proportionate penalty, it dismissed the writ against the CAT order, leaving intact the 50% permanent pension cut and 50% gratuity forfeiture imposed under the CCS (Pension) Rules after his 1997 superannuation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "In August 1980, a Subzi Mandi man @ a Subzi Mandi man was illegally detained at Andha Mughal police post under PS Subzi Mandi and died in custody on 6 August 1980; other personnel were convicted for the custodial death while the then SHO's role was pursued departmentally. The Court held the petitioner, as SHO, had knowledge of the illegal detention, took no action, and was instrumental in showing the death as suicide to hush up the matter. Finding grave misconduct and a proportionate penalty, it dismissed the writ against the CAT order, leaving intact the 50% permanent pension cut and 50% gratuity forfeiture imposed under the CCS (Pension) Rules after his 1997 superannuation.", "court_quote": "no grounds to interfere with the order of the Tribunal dated 10th February, 2004 in O.A No.1855/2003", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; 50% pension cut plus 50% gratuity forfeiture for SHO's custodial-death cover-up role upheld.", "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": "2011-02-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P.(C) No.18511/2004", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27577082/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-50" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP7-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }