{ "record_id": "CW-2019-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0683", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hansi Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others (with Court on its own motion vs State of Haryana and Others)", "display_title_redacted": "Hansi Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others (with Court on its own motion vs State of Haryana and Others)", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Hisar", "district_at_time": "Hissar", "city_town": "Hansi", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station City Hansi", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hansi Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others (with Court on its own motion vs State of Haryana and Others)", "case_number": "CRM-M-19690-2014 with CRM-M-5218-2011", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ramendra Jain" ], "judgment_date": "2019-02-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2011-02-13", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 120-B", "IPC 201" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hansi 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/11389892/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Hansi man died in custody at Police Station City Hansi on the night of 13 February 2011. The Illaqa Magistrate's Section 176 CrPC inquiry found he was murdered by police in custody rather than a suicide, FIR No.125 under Sections 302/120-B/201 IPC was registered, and a coordinate Bench took suo motu cognizance of press reports; the police cancellation report was later accepted in 2011. On 14 November 2014 the Court directed Rs.5,00,000 interim compensation to the widow and two sons, which the State paid. Disposing of both petitions on 21 February 2019, the Court recorded that the grievance stood redressed by the payment (Rs.2 lakh above the Haryana Victim scale), while noting a prima-facie-suicide view on the FSL report and AIIMS medical opinion. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Hansi man died in custody at Police Station City Hansi on the night of 13 February 2011. The Illaqa Magistrate's Section 176 CrPC inquiry found he was murdered by police in custody rather than a suicide, FIR No.125 under Sections 302/120-B/201 IPC was registered, and a coordinate Bench took suo motu cognizance of press reports; the police cancellation report was later accepted in 2011. On 14 November 2014 the Court directed Rs.5,00,000 interim compensation to the widow and two sons, which the State paid. Disposing of both petitions on 21 February 2019, the Court recorded that the grievance stood redressed by the payment (Rs.2 lakh above the Haryana Victim scale), while noting a prima-facie-suicide view on the FSL report and AIIMS medical opinion.", "court_quote": "Consequently, a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 14.11.2014, directed the State Government to pay Rs.5,00,000/- (Rupees Five Lakhs) as interim compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased within a period of two months.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Court-ordered Rs.5 lakh interim compensation paid; final order records grievance redressed (prima-facie-suicide observation noted).", "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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2019-02-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "CRM-M-19690-2014 with CRM-M-5218-2011", "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" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/11389892/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP8-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }