{ "record_id": "CW-2018-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0311", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Verka Man vs State of Punjab and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Verka Man vs State of Punjab and Others", "state": "Punjab", "district": "Amritsar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Verka", "police_station_or_unit": "Amritsar City Police", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Verka Man vs State of Punjab and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 2131 of 2016 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rakesh Kumar Jain" ], "judgment_date": "2018-04-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2015-06-16", "incident_year": 2015, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 307", "Arms Act 1959 s.25", "Arms Act 1959 s.27", "IPC 304", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Amritsar City Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.88, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Amritsar City Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Amritsar City Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.89, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Amritsar City Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Amritsar City Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.89, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Amritsar City Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Amritsar City Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.89, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Amritsar City Police" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 38, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Verka man, age 38" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3335249/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1001520/pdf/" ], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court awarded Rs 20 lakh to Harjit Kaur, widow of a Verka man @ a Verka man (38), killed by an Amritsar police party on 16 June 2015 at Mudhal near Verka with 23 gunshot injuries fired into his car, holding even a dreaded criminal cannot be killed in cold blood in a fake encounter. The Court noted police registered FIR 242/2015 against the deceased to cover up the killing, followed by an SIT and magisterial enquiry, a second FIR against the policemen and departmental enquiries against four officials. It adjusted Rs 5 lakh already paid and directed the Rs 15 lakh balance within three months. Compensation follows Rohtash Kumar and Manjit Kaur precedents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court awarded Rs 20 lakh to Harjit Kaur, widow of a Verka man @ a Verka man (38), killed by an Amritsar police party on 16 June 2015 at Mudhal near Verka with 23 gunshot injuries fired into his car, holding even a dreaded criminal cannot be killed in cold blood in a fake encounter. The Court noted police registered FIR 242/2015 against the deceased to cover up the killing, followed by an SIT and magisterial enquiry, a second FIR against the policemen and departmental enquiries against four officials. It adjusted Rs 5 lakh already paid and directed the Rs 15 lakh balance within three months. Compensation follows Rohtash Kumar and Manjit Kaur precedents.", "court_quote": "award the petitioner in the present case an amount of Rs.20 lakhs as compensation, out of which the amount of Rs.5 lakhs, already paid to the petitioner, shall be deducted/adjusted.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC held fake-encounter killing and awarded Rs 20 lakh total; matches adverse_finding_compensation.", "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": "2018-04-17", "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 2,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "CWP No. 2131 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": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3335249/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1001520/pdf/", "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-29" ], "merged_case_id": "PUNJAB-015", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }