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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0895",
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 "display_title": "Devigarh Man and Others vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Devigarh Man and Others vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Patiala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Devigarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Julka, Patiala",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Devigarh Man and Others vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "case_number": "CWP No. 5710 of 1998 (O&M)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Ritu Bahri"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2014-11-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "1997-08-15",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "Constitution Art. 226",
  "Constitution Art. 227"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable (Punjab Home Guard)",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Police Station Julka, Patiala",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (Punjab Home Guard), Police Station Julka, Patiala"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 39,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Devigarh man, age 39"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 2325800,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/182667369/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. On 15.08.1997 Punjab Home Guard Constable, posted at PS Julka, Patiala, came with his official rifle to Dhaliwal Nursing Home at Devigarh and shot Dr. A Devigarh man in the chest; the doctor was declared dead at Rajendra Hospital, Patiala, and [name withheld] then killed himself with the same rifle, leading to FIR No.87/1997 u/s 302 IPC and an accepted cancellation report. The court rejected the State plea of private-capacity personal enmity, holding that the official rifle entrusted for duty made the State-appointed volunteer's act compensable by the State. Applying Nilabati Behera strict liability under Art.226 and computing on Rajesh vs Rajbir Singh (salary Rs.8,800, multiplier 16 plus consortium/care/funeral heads), it allowed the petition and awarded Rs.23,25,800 to the widow, children and mother within four months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 15.08.1997 Punjab Home Guard Constable, posted at PS Julka, Patiala, came with his official rifle to Dhaliwal Nursing Home at Devigarh and shot Dr. A Devigarh man in the chest; the doctor was declared dead at Rajendra Hospital, Patiala, and [name withheld] then killed himself with the same rifle, leading to FIR No.87/1997 u/s 302 IPC and an accepted cancellation report. The court rejected the State plea of private-capacity personal enmity, holding that the official rifle entrusted for duty made the State-appointed volunteer's act compensable by the State. Applying Nilabati Behera strict liability under Art.226 and computing on Rajesh vs Rajbir Singh (salary Rs.8,800, multiplier 16 plus consortium/care/funeral heads), it allowed the petition and awarded Rs.23,25,800 to the widow, children and mother within four months.",
 "court_quote": "The very fact that [name withheld] used his official rifle to kill Dr. A Devigarh man, the victim i.e. the present petitioner is liable to be compensated for the act committed by PHG Volunteer, appointed by the Government.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; Home Guard constable with entrusted official rifle killed civilian; Rs.23.25 lakh compensation 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": "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2014-11-19",
   "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 2,325,800.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "CWP No. 5710 of 1998 (O&M)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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",
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-51-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}