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 "display_title": "Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and Others",
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 "state": "Punjab",
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 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and Others",
 "case_number": "CRWP 655-2011 with CRM-W-300-2011, CRM-M-14644-2011, CWP 8613-2011",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
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 "judgment_date": "2017-09-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "2011-03-14",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Amritsar man"
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 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/197018445/",
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 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh to Bhupinder Kaur, widow of an Amritsar man @ an Amritsar man, picked up on 3 March 2011 by SSOC officers, held in illegal custody before remand, and found hanged in the Joint Interrogation Cell on 14 March 2011. Though medical and magisterial inquiries found suicide, the Court held police duty-bound for his safety, found dereliction already punished departmentally, and noted custody-period injuries pointing to torture. It directed payment within two months and dismissed the CBI-probe plea. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh to Bhupinder Kaur, widow of an Amritsar man @ an Amritsar man, picked up on 3 March 2011 by SSOC officers, held in illegal custody before remand, and found hanged in the Joint Interrogation Cell on 14 March 2011. Though medical and magisterial inquiries found suicide, the Court held police duty-bound for his safety, found dereliction already punished departmentally, and noted custody-period injuries pointing to torture. It directed payment within two months and dismissed the CBI-probe plea.",
 "court_quote": "There was dereliction of duty, which was even found in the departmental proceedings and the guilty officials/officers were awarded punishment.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "P&H HC found dereliction in custodial death and awarded Rs 10 lakh; matches adverse_finding_compensation.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2017-09-25",
   "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": "CRWP 655-2011 with CRM-W-300-2011, CRM-M-14644-2011, CWP 8613-2011",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "PUNJAB-019",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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