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 "display_title": "Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and others",
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 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Amritsar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Amritsar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Cantonment, Amritsar",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and others",
 "case_number": "CRM-M-12183-2016",
 "citation": "2025:PHHC:068484",
 "judges": [
  "Harpreet Singh Brar"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-05-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2013-05-23",
 "incident_year": 2013,
 "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": [
  "Article 21",
  "IPC 304",
  "IPC 302",
  "CrPC 482"
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   "rank": "Head Constable",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Amritsar man, age 22"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/crm-m12183201620052025finalorder-601232.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-rs-15-lakh-compensation-to-mother-of-man-killed-by-police-officials-allegedly-in-self-defence-293069"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. On 23 May 2013, 22-year-old an Amritsar man alias an Amritsar man was sitting inside a barber shop in Amritsar when Head Constable and Head Constable approached and shot him at point-blank range in the chest, killing him instantly. Police claimed they fired in self-defense against a knife attack and registered an FIR against the deceased, while repeatedly submitting cancellation reports in the subsequent inquiry against the police officers. The Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the self-defense theory, pointing out that trained police armed with service pistols could easily apprehend a knife-wielding suspect without shooting at point-blank range into his chest. Finding that the killing constituted an extra-judicial execution by law enforcement donning the role of judge, jury, and executioner, the High Court awarded Rs. 15,00,000 compensation to the deceased mother. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 23 May 2013, 22-year-old an Amritsar man alias an Amritsar man was sitting inside a barber shop in Amritsar when Head Constable and Head Constable approached and shot him at point-blank range in the chest, killing him instantly. Police claimed they fired in self-defense against a knife attack and registered an FIR against the deceased, while repeatedly submitting cancellation reports in the subsequent inquiry against the police officers. The Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the self-defense theory, pointing out that trained police armed with service pistols could easily apprehend a knife-wielding suspect without shooting at point-blank range into his chest. Finding that the killing constituted an extra-judicial execution by law enforcement donning the role of judge, jury, and executioner, the High Court awarded Rs. 15,00,000 compensation to the deceased mother.",
 "court_quote": "Allowing the act of respondent No.5 to go unchecked would effectively mean validating a death sentence, passed not in line with the due process of law, but by the law enforcement agency donning the role of the judge, jury and executioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Punjab and Haryana HC held killing of youth at point-blank range in barber shop an extra-judicial killing, awarding Rs. 15 lakh compensation to mother.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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 "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"
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2025-05-20",
   "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 1,500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2025:PHHC:068484",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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