{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0162", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0589", "CWC-1478" ], "display_title": "Lohar Majra Man v. State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Lohar Majra Man v. State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Kurukshetra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lohar Majra", "police_station_or_unit": "Pehowa Police Station", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Lohar Majra Man v. State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 7697 of 1999", "citation": "2015(1) ILR Punjab and Haryana 566", "judges": [ "K. Kannan" ], "judgment_date": "2015-02-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1993-12-27", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kurukshetra", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.48, "jev_p_culpable": 0.63, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Kurukshetra" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer / Investigating Officer", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kurukshetra", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.44, "jev_p_culpable": 0.65, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer / Investigating Officer, Kurukshetra" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Lohar Majra man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CWP_7697_1999.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61135315/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16142980/", "https://www.livelaw.in/prosecution-of-an-innocent-man-for-rape-and-murder-violates-his-human-rights-and-he-is-entitled-to-compensation-punjab-haryana-hc", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/184376/ram-sarup-appellant-hash-state-of-haryana-and-others-respondent-2/" ], "summary": "A Lohar Majra man's daughter was found raped and murdered on 27-12-1993; after he named three suspects to the SHO, he was himself detained, arrested and prosecuted for her rape and murder. The court found, relying on an earlier PIL finding and a CBI report, that the investigation was inept and motivated: the suspects were never interrogated, fingerprints were never collected, and recovery-memo evidence was manipulated. It held the petitioner had suffered malicious prosecution and unjustified incarceration at the hands of the SHO as Investigating Officer with the Superintendent of Police as mentor. The State was ordered to pay Rs. 5 lakh with 9% interest from the date of petition plus Rs. 10,000 costs, with liberty to recover from the two officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Lohar Majra man's daughter was found raped and murdered on 27-12-1993; after he named three suspects to the SHO, he was himself detained, arrested and prosecuted for her rape and murder. The court found, relying on an earlier PIL finding and a CBI report, that the investigation was inept and motivated: the suspects were never interrogated, fingerprints were never collected, and recovery-memo evidence was manipulated. It held the petitioner had suffered malicious prosecution and unjustified incarceration at the hands of the SHO as Investigating Officer with the Superintendent of Police as mentor. The State was ordered to pay Rs. 5 lakh with 9% interest from the date of petition plus Rs. 10,000 costs, with liberty to recover from the two officers.", "court_quote": "Malice is writ large in a situation that apart from prosecuting an innocent person, grave suspects were allowed to go scot-free by inept investigation and a motivated attempt to screen the real accused.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: Rs.5 lakh + 9% interest for malicious prosecution by named SHO and SP.", "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": "2015-02-09", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2015(1) ILR Punjab and Haryana 566", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CWP_7697_1999.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61135315/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16142980/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/prosecution-of-an-innocent-man-for-rape-and-murder-violates-his-human-rights-and-he-is-entitled-to-compensation-punjab-haryana-hc", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/184376/ram-sarup-appellant-hash-state-of-haryana-and-others-respondent-2/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-05", "chunk-39", "chunk-44" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }