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 "display_title": "Haryana Police ex-Constable and others vs State of Haryana and Others",
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 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Sirsa",
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 "city_town": "Sirsa",
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 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Haryana Police ex-Constable and others vs State of Haryana and Others",
 "case_number": "CWP-14996-2025 (common order also disposes CWP-23420-2025)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Jagmohan Bansal"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-09-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": null,
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 "category": "Custodial torture",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 167",
  "IPC 34"
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   "display": "ex-Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "ex-Head Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "ex-Head Constable, Haryana Police"
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 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": null,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2025/09/Krishan-Kumar-@-Krishan-Lal-vs.-State-of-Haryana-and-Others.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://courtbook.in/posts/punjab-and-haryana-high-court-clarifies-scope-of-police-dismissals-and-review-powers-under-service-rules"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. [name withheld] and colleagues were implicated in FIR No. 62 dated 25 March 2001 and convicted on 26 October 2012 under Sections 323, 342, 167 and 34 IPC with three years rigorous imprisonment, being acquitted of the murder charge, and were dismissed on 16 November 2012. The High Court held that no punishment other than dismissal can be awarded where an enrolled police officer is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment exceeding one month under Rule 16.2(2) of the Punjab Police Rules. The court rejected the plea for conversion of dismissal into compulsory retirement on parity with a co-accused and dismissed the writ, so the dismissal stands while the criminal appeals remain pending.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld] and colleagues were implicated in FIR No. 62 dated 25 March 2001 and convicted on 26 October 2012 under Sections 323, 342, 167 and 34 IPC with three years rigorous imprisonment, being acquitted of the murder charge, and were dismissed on 16 November 2012. The High Court held that no punishment other than dismissal can be awarded where an enrolled police officer is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment exceeding one month under Rule 16.2(2) of the Punjab Police Rules. The court rejected the plea for conversion of dismissal into compulsory retirement on parity with a co-accused and dismissed the writ, so the dismissal stands while the criminal appeals remain pending.",
 "court_quote": "The respondent cannot award punishment other than dismissal from service where an enrolled Police officer has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment exceeding one month.",
 "court_quote_para": "37",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Dismissal of constable convicted (3 years RI) in 2001 Sirsa custodial-violence case sustained; parity plea rejected.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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": "2025-09-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "CWP-14996-2025 (common order also disposes CWP-23420-2025)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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)",
   "result": "holds",
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