{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1073", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hanumangarh Police Head Constable and others vs State of Punjab", "display_title_redacted": "Hanumangarh Police Head Constable and others vs State of Punjab", "state": "Punjab", "district": "Sangrur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hanumangarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Sangrur police escort party", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hanumangarh Police Head Constable and others vs State of Punjab", "case_number": "CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Kuldip Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2017-11-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2011-07-07", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 223" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Sangrur police (escort party)", "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, Sangrur police (escort party)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Sangrur police (escort party)", "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, Sangrur police (escort party)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Sangrur police (escort party)", "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, Sangrur police (escort party)" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157950061/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "On 6 July 2011 custody of undertrial Harnam Singh was handed to three Sangrur Head Constables for production before the Special Court at Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, and he escaped from their custody on 7 July 2011. The Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sangrur convicted all three under Section 223 IPC (one year simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine), and the Additional Sessions Judge affirmed on 3 June 2016. The High Court found no illegality in the concurrent findings, upheld jurisdiction at Sangrur and held no sanction was needed, noting the circumstances within the accused special knowledge went unexplained. Maintaining the conviction, the court set aside the substantive sentence and released the three on probation for one year on Rs 25,000 bonds, with Section 12 protection so the conviction is no disqualification. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 6 July 2011 custody of undertrial Harnam Singh was handed to three Sangrur Head Constables for production before the Special Court at Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, and he escaped from their custody on 7 July 2011. The Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sangrur convicted all three under Section 223 IPC (one year simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine), and the Additional Sessions Judge affirmed on 3 June 2016. The High Court found no illegality in the concurrent findings, upheld jurisdiction at Sangrur and held no sanction was needed, noting the circumstances within the accused special knowledge went unexplained. Maintaining the conviction, the court set aside the substantive sentence and released the three on probation for one year on Rs 25,000 bonds, with Section 12 protection so the conviction is no disqualification.", "court_quote": "while maintaining the conviction of present revisionists under Section 223 IPC, the sentence passed upon them is hereby set aside and they are ordered to be released on probation under Section 5 (1) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC maintained S.223 IPC conviction of three escort Head Constables; custodial sentence replaced with probation.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2017-11-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M)", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157950061/", "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-94" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-114-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }