{ "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "slug": "himachal-pradesh", "count": 8, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/himachal-pradesh", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1954-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1055", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Punjab State v. [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "Punjab State v. [name withheld]", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Shimla", "district_at_time": "Simla (Punjab, pre-reorganisation)", "city_town": "Shimla", "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police, Simla (Censor Department posting)", "court": "Punjab High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Punjab State v. [name withheld]", "case_number": "Regular Second Appeal No. 891 of 1951", "citation": "I.L.R. Punjab Series, Vol. VIII, p. 934", "judges": [ "Kapur" ], "judgment_date": "1954-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1954, "incident_date": "1944-01-01", "incident_year": 1944, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act 1861 s.7", "GOI Act 1935 s.243" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable (officiating Assistant Sub-Inspector)", "unit": "Punjab Police, Simla (Censor Department posting)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable (officiating Assistant Sub-Inspector), Punjab Police, Simla (Censor Department posting)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Shimla woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/Regular%20Second%20Appeal%20No._891_1951.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab High Court sustained the dismissal of Head Constable (officiating ASI) [name withheld] of Simla, who was dismissed on 25 January 1944 after a departmental enquiry found he had misused his wartime posting in the Censor Department to extract and keep private letters and attempt to blackmail the young woman addressee, for which a trap had caught him. The court held subordinate police were governed by s.243 (not s.240(3)) of the Government of India Act, 1935, that breach of procedural rules gives no right of action, and that both courts below took an erroneous view of law. It allowed the State's second appeal, set aside the decrees declaring the dismissal void, and dismissed the policeman's suit with costs. Simla was then in Punjab and is now Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab High Court sustained the dismissal of Head Constable (officiating ASI) [name withheld] of Simla, who was dismissed on 25 January 1944 after a departmental enquiry found he had misused his wartime posting in the Censor Department to extract and keep private letters and attempt to blackmail the young woman addressee, for which a trap had caught him. The court held subordinate police were governed by s.243 (not s.240(3)) of the Government of India Act, 1935, that breach of procedural rules gives no right of action, and that both courts below took an erroneous view of law. It allowed the State's second appeal, set aside the decrees declaring the dismissal void, and dismissed the policeman's suit with costs. Simla was then in Punjab and is now Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.", "court_quote": "I would therefore allow this appeal, set aside the decree of the Courts below and dismiss the plaintiff's suit with costs throughout.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified from official HC ILR scan; dismissal for blackmail-type misconduct sustained. Court name is the 1954 official name (predecessor of Punjab and Haryana HC).", "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": "1954-11-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "I.L.R. Punjab Series, Vol. VIII, p. 934", "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://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/Regular%20Second%20Appeal%20No._891_1951.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-91" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-109-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1979-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0055", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Himachal Pradesh vs Rampur, village Gharat Nala Police Head Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "State of Himachal Pradesh vs Rampur, village Gharat Nala Police Head Constable and others", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Shimla", "district_at_time": "Mahasu", "city_town": "Rampur, village Gharat Nala", "police_station_or_unit": "Rampur police party (SHO Ranjit Singh)", "court": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Himachal Pradesh vs Rampur, village Gharat Nala Police Head Constable and others", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 11 of 1971", "citation": "(1980) ShimLC 73", "judges": [ "D.B. Lal", "T.R. Handa" ], "judgment_date": "1979-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1979, "incident_date": "1969-06-20", "incident_year": 1969, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 330", "IPC 348" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Prem Chand", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Rampur police party", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Prem Chand", "display": "Prem Chand (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Narsingh Dutt", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Rampur police party", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Narsingh Dutt", "display": "Narsingh Dutt (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rampur, village Gharat Nala man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rampur, village Gharat Nala man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/242044/state-of-himachal-pradesh-vs-shri-ranjit-singh-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=709791620000&title=state-of-himachal-pradesh-vs-ranjit-singh" ], "summary": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the State appeal against the acquittal of seven Rampur policemen by the Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahasu. On the night of June 20-21, 1969, a police party led by SHO detained a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man and a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man at a shop in village Gharat Nala while investigating a theft, beating them to extort confessions; a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man died the next morning at Bathara. Holding that Head Constable Prem Chand and Constable Narsingh Dutt had voluntarily caused hurt to extort a confession and wrongfully confined a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man overnight, the Court convicted both under Sections 330 and 348 IPC, sentencing each to two years rigorous imprisonment under Section 330 and one year under Section 348 to run concurrently, and directed them to surrender forthwith, while dismissing the appeal against the remaining five accused.", "summary_verified": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the State appeal against the acquittal of seven Rampur policemen by the Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahasu. On the night of June 20-21, 1969, a police party led by SHO detained a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man and a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man at a shop in village Gharat Nala while investigating a theft, beating them to extort confessions; a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man died the next morning at Bathara. Holding that Head Constable Prem Chand and Constable Narsingh Dutt had voluntarily caused hurt to extort a confession and wrongfully confined a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man overnight, the Court convicted both under Sections 330 and 348 IPC, sentencing each to two years rigorous imprisonment under Section 330 and one year under Section 348 to run concurrently, and directed them to surrender forthwith, while dismissing the appeal against the remaining five accused.", "court_quote": "Prem Chand, Head Constable, and Narsingh Dutt, Constable, the two accused, have gone beyond their powers and have committed the offences under Sections 330 and 348 of the I.P. Code.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HP HC set aside acquittal and convicted Head Constable Prem Chand and Constable Narsingh Dutt under IPC 330/348 for custodial torture of a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man", "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 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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1979-03-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1980) ShimLC 73", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/242044/state-of-himachal-pradesh-vs-shri-ranjit-singh-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=709791620000&title=state-of-himachal-pradesh-vs-ranjit-singh", "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-02", "chunk-15", "chunk-r01", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-001", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1995-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0906", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Sirmaur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rajgarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Rajgarh Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 108 and 335 of 1987", "citation": "AIR 1995 SC 1965", "judges": [ "Madan Mohan Punchhi", "K. Jayachandra Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1995-01-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 451", "IPC 342", "IPC 376", "IPC 376 r/w 109" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Rajgarh Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Head Constable, Rajgarh Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Rajgarh Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Rajgarh Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 19, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rajgarh woman, age 19" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083421/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/678253/ram-kumar-and-nain-singh-vs-state-of-hp/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Around midnight, [name withheld] (Investigating Head Constable) and [name withheld] (Constable) of Rajgarh Police Station forcibly took a 19-year-old woman and her husband from a house at Rajgarh to the police station on the false pretext of a wireless message from Chandigarh, confined them in separate rooms, and [name withheld] raped her while [name withheld] guarded the husband. The Sessions Court acquitted both, but the Himachal Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal, sentencing [name withheld] to 7 years RI and [name withheld] to 2 years RI for abetment. The Supreme Court held the prosecutrix reliable and corroborated, found [name withheld]'s conduct consistent with aiding and abetting, and dismissed both appeals, directing the appellants to surrender forthwith.", "summary_verified": "Around midnight, [name withheld] (Investigating Head Constable) and [name withheld] (Constable) of Rajgarh Police Station forcibly took a 19-year-old woman and her husband from a house at Rajgarh to the police station on the false pretext of a wireless message from Chandigarh, confined them in separate rooms, and [name withheld] raped her while [name withheld] guarded the husband. The Sessions Court acquitted both, but the Himachal Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal, sentencing [name withheld] to 7 years RI and [name withheld] to 2 years RI for abetment. The Supreme Court held the prosecutrix reliable and corroborated, found [name withheld]'s conduct consistent with aiding and abetting, and dismissed both appeals, directing the appellants to surrender forthwith.", "court_quote": "This case relates to a custodial rape. The Court of Session acquitted the two appellants herein of the crime but the High Court recorded convictions under more than one heads, besides rape and sentenced substantively [name withheld] appellant to seven years rigorous imprisonment and [name withheld] appellant to two years rigorous imprisonment which has given rise to these appeals.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified (Legal Tools PDF + Indian Kanoon); custodial-rape convictions of two policemen upheld.", "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 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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1965", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1995-01-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1965", "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://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083421/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/678253/ram-kumar-and-nain-singh-vs-state-of-hp/", "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-76" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-57-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1995-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1102", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Himachal Pradesh Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (in charge) and others vs State of Himachal Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Himachal Pradesh Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (in charge) and others vs State of Himachal Pradesh", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Shimla", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shimla (Kasumpti)", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Himachal Pradesh Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (in charge) and others vs State of Himachal Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 715 of 1989 with appeals arising out of SLP (Crl.) Nos. 965 of 1989 and 193 of 1990", "citation": "AIR 1995 SC 1941; 1995 CriLJ 3223; (1995) 4 SCC 1", "judges": [ "Sujata V. Manohar", "M. M. Punchhi" ], "judgment_date": "1995-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": "1975-08-30", "incident_year": 1975, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 217", "IPC 330", "IPC 348", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (in charge)", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (in charge), Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shimla man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113523/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/673635/anup-singh-and-others-appellant-hash-state-of-himachal-pradesh-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 7 February 1995 dismissed on merit the appeals of ASI and Constable of Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, upholding their convictions under Sections 217, 330 and 348 read with Section 34 IPC. The Court found that a Shimla man had been wrongfully confined at the police post from 30 August to 12 September 1975 and beaten with sticks to extort a confession in a theft case, and that his dead body was found on 17 September 1975. It held the constable's complicity proved beyond doubt and the ASI answerable as post in-charge acting with tacit consent and connivance. A third constable's appeal abated on his death; the Court left the convictions and sentences undisturbed and ordered no compensation.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 7 February 1995 dismissed on merit the appeals of ASI and Constable of Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, upholding their convictions under Sections 217, 330 and 348 read with Section 34 IPC. The Court found that a Shimla man had been wrongfully confined at the police post from 30 August to 12 September 1975 and beaten with sticks to extort a confession in a theft case, and that his dead body was found on 17 September 1975. It held the constable's complicity proved beyond doubt and the ASI answerable as post in-charge acting with tacit consent and connivance. A third constable's appeal abated on his death; the Court left the convictions and sentences undisturbed and ordered no compensation.", "court_quote": "The complicity of [name withheld] and [name withheld] in the commission of the crime thus stands proved beyond doubt.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC dismissed appeals on merit, upholding IPC 217/330/348 convictions of Kasumpti ASI and constable for custodial confinement and torture.", "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 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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1941; 1995 CriLJ 3223; (1995) 4 SCC 1", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1995-02-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1941; 1995 CriLJ 3223; (1995) 4 SCC 1", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113523/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/673635/anup-singh-and-others-appellant-hash-state-of-himachal-pradesh-respondent/", "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-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0058", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Manali Man And Ors. vs State Of Himachal Pradesh And Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Manali Man And Ors. vs State Of Himachal Pradesh And Ors", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Kullu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Manali", "police_station_or_unit": "Manali Police Station", "court": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "bench": null, "case_title": "Manali Man And Ors. vs State Of Himachal Pradesh And Ors", "case_number": null, "citation": "1998 ACJ 632", "judges": [ "M. Srinivasan", "Lokeshwar Singh Panta" ], "judgment_date": "1997-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1993-06-05", "incident_year": 1993, "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": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 22(2)", "IPC 223" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Manali Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.85, "jev_p_culpable": 0.27, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Manali Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (Additional SHO)", "unit": "Manali Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.88, "jev_p_culpable": 0.17, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (Additional SHO), Manali Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 145", "unit": "Manali Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.95, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable No. 145, Manali Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 1019", "unit": "Manali Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable No. 1019, Manali Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 1037", "unit": "Manali Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable No. 1037, Manali Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 22, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Manali man, age 22" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63109/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/241010/pdf/" ], "summary": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the writ petition of the family of a Manali man (22), arrested on June 5, 1993 by Manali police in FIR No. 110 of 1993 and never produced before a Magistrate; his decomposed body was recovered from Pandoh Dam on June 26, 1993. The family alleged he was beaten to death on the night of June 5/6 and thrown in the Beas, while police claimed escape from custody and suicide. The Court held police failed to prove escape, violated Articles 22(2) and 21, and were negligent in their custodial duty, awarding Rs. 1,00,000 interim compensation (Rs. 25,000 to widow [name withheld], Rs. 15,000 to mother [name withheld], Rs. 60,000 in fixed deposit for three minor daughters), clarifying observations would not affect the pending criminal case No. 77-1/1994 (State v. [name withheld] under Section 223 IPC) against police officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the writ petition of the family of a Manali man (22), arrested on June 5, 1993 by Manali police in FIR No. 110 of 1993 and never produced before a Magistrate; his decomposed body was recovered from Pandoh Dam on June 26, 1993. The family alleged he was beaten to death on the night of June 5/6 and thrown in the Beas, while police claimed escape from custody and suicide. The Court held police failed to prove escape, violated Articles 22(2) and 21, and were negligent in their custodial duty, awarding Rs. 1,00,000 interim compensation (Rs. 25,000 to widow [name withheld], Rs. 15,000 to mother [name withheld], Rs. 60,000 in fixed deposit for three minor daughters), clarifying observations would not affect the pending criminal case No. 77-1/1994 (State v. [name withheld] under Section 223 IPC) against police officials.", "court_quote": "There can be no doubt whatever that the police officials were negligent and failed to perform their duties enjoined on them by law.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HP HC held Manali police negligent in custody of a Manali man (22), found Art. 22(2) violated, awarded Rs. 1 lakh interim 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": "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": "1997-03-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1998 ACJ 632", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63109/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/241010/pdf/", "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-02", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0484", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mandi Police personnel v. State of H.P. & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Mandi Police personnel v. State of H.P. & Anr.", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Mandi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mandi", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Sadar, Mandi", "court": "Himachal Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Himachal Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mandi Police personnel v. State of H.P. & Anr.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2008 Cri LJ 1350", "judges": [ "Surjit Singh", "Kuldip Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2007-08-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1994-08-30", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 376(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "PS Sadar, Mandi", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, PS Sadar, Mandi" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mandi woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 10, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1147113/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/891569/gulzar-muhamad-vs-state-h-p-anr" ], "summary": "The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the conviction and sentence of the in-charge of PS Sadar Mandi, who summoned a village woman to the station on 30 August 1994, bolted the upper-storey room and raped her after threatening to implicate her family in a poisoning case he was investigating. The Court refused leniency since he took undue advantage of his position as station in-charge, sustaining 10 years RI with the Rs 20,000 fine payable to the prosecutrix. The appeal was dismissed. The prosecutrix had secured justice only through a Section 156(3) application after even the SP failed to help. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the conviction and sentence of the in-charge of PS Sadar Mandi, who summoned a village woman to the station on 30 August 1994, bolted the upper-storey room and raped her after threatening to implicate her family in a poisoning case he was investigating. The Court refused leniency since he took undue advantage of his position as station in-charge, sustaining 10 years RI with the Rs 20,000 fine payable to the prosecutrix. The appeal was dismissed. The prosecutrix had secured justice only through a Section 156(3) application after even the SP failed to help.", "court_quote": "The result of the above discussion, judgment of conviction and sentence passed against the accused by the learned Sessions Judge, Mandi on 18/19-8-2003, is upheld and the appeal is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "35", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld 376(2) conviction (10 yrs RI + fine) of PS in-charge; appeal dismissed.", "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 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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2008 Cri LJ 1350", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2007-08-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Himachal Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Himachal Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2008 Cri LJ 1350", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1147113/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/891569/gulzar-muhamad-vs-state-h-p-anr", "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-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-016", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0059", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kandaghat Man vs State Of H.P. And Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Kandaghat Man vs State Of H.P. And Ors", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Solan", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kandaghat", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Sairy / Police Station Kandaghat", "court": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kandaghat Man vs State Of H.P. And Ors", "case_number": null, "citation": "2008 ACJ 1684; 2008(1) ShimLC 355", "judges": [ "Dev Darshan Sud" ], "judgment_date": "2007-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2001-01-08", "incident_year": 2001, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 28, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kandaghat man, age 28" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1431596/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh allowed the compensation plea of Santosh Kumari, widow of a Kandaghat man (28), arrested on January 8, 2001 in excise FIR No. 4 of 2001 and found unconscious with head, shoulder, eye and genital injuries while being escorted by Police Post Sairy staff; he died at IGMC Shimla on January 9, 2001. Police claimed he jumped from a running bus near Boileauganj while escaping, while the family alleged custodial torture, delayed treatment and a post-mortem held two days after death. The Court found no compliance with the mandatory D.K. Basu safeguards, noted the SDM enquiry accepted police carelessness and that the scrotum and testicle injuries were unexplained, and directed the petitioner be paid Rs. 2,00,000 (non-recoverable, adjustable against any future civil award), leaving her free to approach courts or the State Human Rights Commission for further relief. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh allowed the compensation plea of Santosh Kumari, widow of a Kandaghat man (28), arrested on January 8, 2001 in excise FIR No. 4 of 2001 and found unconscious with head, shoulder, eye and genital injuries while being escorted by Police Post Sairy staff; he died at IGMC Shimla on January 9, 2001. Police claimed he jumped from a running bus near Boileauganj while escaping, while the family alleged custodial torture, delayed treatment and a post-mortem held two days after death. The Court found no compliance with the mandatory D.K. Basu safeguards, noted the SDM enquiry accepted police carelessness and that the scrotum and testicle injuries were unexplained, and directed the petitioner be paid Rs. 2,00,000 (non-recoverable, adjustable against any future civil award), leaving her free to approach courts or the State Human Rights Commission for further relief.", "court_quote": "The injuries on the scrotum and testicles of the deceased have not been explained.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HP HC found HP police violated D.K. Basu safeguards in custody of a Kandaghat man (28) who died with unexplained injuries, awarded Rs. 2 lakh 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": "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": "2007-10-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2008 ACJ 1684; 2008(1) ShimLC 355", "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/1431596/", "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-02", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0033", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0758", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0062", "CWC-1456" ], "display_title": "District Police Constable No. 265 v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. with [name withheld] v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "District Police Constable No. 265 v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. with [name withheld] v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors.", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Hamirpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Balh", "court": "Himachal Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Himachal Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "District Police Constable No. 265 v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. with [name withheld] v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors.", "case_number": "CWP No. 6783 of 2026 with CWP No. 2077 of 2026", "citation": "2026:HHC:31438", "judges": [ "Ajay Mohan Goel" ], "judgment_date": "2026-07-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "NDPS Act s.20", "NDPS Act s.21", "NDPS Act s.25", "NDPS Act s.29", "Constitution Art. 311(2)(a)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 265", "unit": "4th India Reserve Battalion (IRBn), Jangalberi, Hamirpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable No. 265, 4th India Reserve Battalion (IRBn), Jangalberi, Hamirpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 710", "unit": "District Police Shimla", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable No. 710, District Police Shimla" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/22/gaurav-verma-695668.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/himachal-pradesh-high-court/hp-high-court-upholds-dismissal-police-constables-convicted-ndps-act-547050", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27966799/" ], "summary": "The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the dismissal from service of two police constables criminally convicted under the NDPS Act: [name withheld], caught with 1003 grams of charas and sentenced by the Special Judge, Mandi to three years' imprisonment with fine, and [name withheld], convicted under Sections 21, 25 and 29. The Court held the DGP's invocation of clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) lawful and the pendency of criminal appeals no bar to dismissal without inquiry. It found dismissal neither excessive nor disproportionate for police personnel tasked with checking NDPS offences, observing the protectors of law had become its violators. Both writ petitions were dismissed on 29 July 2026. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the dismissal from service of two police constables criminally convicted under the NDPS Act: [name withheld], caught with 1003 grams of charas and sentenced by the Special Judge, Mandi to three years' imprisonment with fine, and [name withheld], convicted under Sections 21, 25 and 29. The Court held the DGP's invocation of clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) lawful and the pendency of criminal appeals no bar to dismissal without inquiry. It found dismissal neither excessive nor disproportionate for police personnel tasked with checking NDPS offences, observing the protectors of law had become its violators. Both writ petitions were dismissed on 29 July 2026.", "court_quote": "Accordingly, in light of the findings returned herein above, as this Court does not find any infirmity or illegality in the orders under challenge, in terms whereof the petitioners have been dismissed from service, the present writ petitions being devoid of any merit are dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "40", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HP HC upheld dismissal of two NDPS-convicted police constables under Art.311(2)(a); writs dismissed.", "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": "2026-07-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Himachal Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2026:HHC:31438", "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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/22/gaurav-verma-695668.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/himachal-pradesh-high-court/hp-high-court-upholds-dismissal-police-constables-convicted-ndps-act-547050", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27966799/", "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-15", "chunk-45", "chunk-71", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }