{ "record_id": "CW-2014-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0682", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Faridabad Man vs The State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Faridabad Man vs The State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Faridabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Faridabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post under Police Station Central, Sector-8, Faridabad", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Faridabad Man vs The State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 14953 of 2001", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ritu Bahri" ], "judgment_date": "2014-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1996-02-07", "incident_year": 1996, "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 381", "IPC 342", "IPC 306", "IPC 120-B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)", "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 Sub-Inspector, Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Incharge, Police Post", "unit": "Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)", "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": "Incharge, Police Post, Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (Moharrar)", "unit": "Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)", "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": "Constable (Moharrar), Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Central, Faridabad", "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": "Head Constable, Police Station Central, Faridabad" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 34, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Faridabad man, age 34" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 739400, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/111804313/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Faridabad man, a 34-year-old factory worker detained from 5 to 7 February 1996 in a theft case, died in the police-post lock-up on 7 February 1996 after consuming acid kept in the toilet. The SDM Faridabad's inquiry examined 24 persons and concluded the Incharge Police Post was grossly negligent and ASI guilty of abetment to suicide, finding death in custody after mental depression, physical torture and humiliation. The criminal trial under Sections 342/306/120-B IPC had ended in acquittal in 1997, but the High Court held that was no bar to compensation under Articles 32/226 following Nilabati Behera. The Court allowed the petition and directed the State to pay the widow Rs.7,39,400 with 9% interest from filing till realisation within three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Faridabad man, a 34-year-old factory worker detained from 5 to 7 February 1996 in a theft case, died in the police-post lock-up on 7 February 1996 after consuming acid kept in the toilet. The SDM Faridabad's inquiry examined 24 persons and concluded the Incharge Police Post was grossly negligent and ASI guilty of abetment to suicide, finding death in custody after mental depression, physical torture and humiliation. The criminal trial under Sections 342/306/120-B IPC had ended in acquittal in 1997, but the High Court held that was no bar to compensation under Articles 32/226 following Nilabati Behera. The Court allowed the petition and directed the State to pay the widow Rs.7,39,400 with 9% interest from filing till realisation within three months.", "court_quote": "The Police Department has been negligent in keeping such a substance which is injurious to human life at large in the premises of the police post.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held custodial death after torture/negligence; Rs.7,39,400 compensation with 9% interest ordered.", "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": "2014-04-04", "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 739,400.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "CWP No. 14953 of 2001", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/111804313/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP8-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }