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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1316",
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 "display_title": "Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Amritsar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Amritsar",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Harpreet Singh Brar"
 ],
 "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": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Amritsar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Amritsar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Amritsar man, age 22"
  }
 ],
 "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://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/crm-m12183201620052025finalorder-601232.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawyerenews.com/legal_detail/trigger-happy-policemen-must-know-the-gallows-await-them-punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-rs15-lakh-compensation-for-custodial-killing-of-22-year-old"
 ],
 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice Harpreet Singh Brar) held that the 23 May 2013 point-blank police shooting of 22-year-old an Amritsar man inside an Amritsar barber shop was an excess by the State law-enforcement agency and awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to his mother. The Court noted the chest wound's black ring proved a point-blank shot fired without warning, arrest attempt or chance to surrender, and rejected self-defence since trained officers with pistols could have arrested a man armed only with a knife. It relied on Prakash Kadam on extra-judicial killings and noted the mother fought 12 years for an FIR and Crime Branch probe. The jurisdictional Magistrate was directed to assess the second cancellation report in the s.304 IPC case. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice Harpreet Singh Brar) held that the 23 May 2013 point-blank police shooting of 22-year-old an Amritsar man inside an Amritsar barber shop was an excess by the State law-enforcement agency and awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to his mother. The Court noted the chest wound's black ring proved a point-blank shot fired without warning, arrest attempt or chance to surrender, and rejected self-defence since trained officers with pistols could have arrested a man armed only with a knife. It relied on Prakash Kadam on extra-judicial killings and noted the mother fought 12 years for an FIR and Crime Branch probe. The jurisdictional Magistrate was directed to assess the second cancellation report in the s.304 IPC case.",
 "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": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC held point-blank police shooting an excess by law-enforcement agency; Rs 15L to mother.",
 "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": "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": "Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment 2025-05-20",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "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)",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://lawyerenews.com/legal_detail/trigger-happy-policemen-must-know-the-gallows-await-them-punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-rs15-lakh-compensation-for-custodial-killing-of-22-year-old",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-020",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}