{ "state": "Haryana", "slug": "haryana", "count": 38, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/haryana", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1965-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0891", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Karnal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Assandh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Assandh (Punjab Police at the time; now Haryana Police)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ No. 1913 of 1963", "citation": "(1965) 03 P&H CK 0019", "judges": [ "Shamsher Bahadur" ], "judgment_date": "1965-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1965, "incident_date": "1959-07-22", "incident_year": 1959, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 227", "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.38(2)", "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.28(1)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "SHO, Police Station Assandh", "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": "Sub-Inspector, SHO, Police Station Assandh" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Assandh man" } ], "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector [name withheld], SHO of Police Station Assandh, was alleged to have beaten an Assandh man, confined him in the police station on the night of 22-23 July 1959, and accepted a Rs 300 bribe from him after recovering opium from an Assandh man's brother [name withheld]. After a Vigilance examination, a departmental enquiry initially found the allegations not proved, but the DIG called for the record, held the bribery charge proved, and dismissed him on 28 October 1961, and his appeal was rejected on 10 September 1963. The High Court repelled challenges on Rule 16.38 compliance, the DIG's competence under Rule 16.28, bias, and pre-enquiry association, holding there was no jurisdictional error in the dismissal order. It dismissed the writ petition with no order as to costs, leaving the bribery dismissal intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector [name withheld], SHO of Police Station Assandh, was alleged to have beaten an Assandh man, confined him in the police station on the night of 22-23 July 1959, and accepted a Rs 300 bribe from him after recovering opium from an Assandh man's brother [name withheld]. After a Vigilance examination, a departmental enquiry initially found the allegations not proved, but the DIG called for the record, held the bribery charge proved, and dismissed him on 28 October 1961, and his appeal was rejected on 10 September 1963. The High Court repelled challenges on Rule 16.38 compliance, the DIG's competence under Rule 16.28, bias, and pre-enquiry association, holding there was no jurisdictional error in the dismissal order. It dismissed the writ petition with no order as to costs, leaving the bribery dismissal intact.", "court_quote": "All that is required is that the petitioner should be given an adequate opportunity at the time of enquiry and when he is to be removed from service. At both stages the petitioner was asked to furnish his explanations which were duly, considered by the appropriate authorities. There is no force in this petition which fails and is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "9-10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; SHO's dismissal on proved Rs 300 bribery charge upheld — disciplinary_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": "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": "1965-03-10", "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": "(1965) 03 P&H CK 0019", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/", "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-74" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1967-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0892", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ambala Police Constable (No. 1751) vs Inspector General of Police, Punjab and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ambala Police Constable (No. 1751) vs Inspector General of Police, Punjab and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Ambala", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ambala", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Lines, Ambala", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ambala Police Constable (No. 1751) vs Inspector General of Police, Punjab and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ No. 756 of 1966", "citation": "AIR 1970 P&H 81; (1968) 1 ILR (P&H) 368", "judges": [ "Tek Chand" ], "judgment_date": "1967-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1967, "incident_date": "1965-01-03", "incident_year": 1965, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.2(1)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (No. 1751)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Lines, Ambala", "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. 1751), Police Lines, Ambala" } ], "officer_count": 1, "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1669326/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/610712/bhagwat-parshad-vs-inspector-general" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Constable (No. 1751), posted at the Police Lines, Ambala, allegedly consumed liquor off duty on 3 January 1965 and created a noisy, rowdy scene in Barrack No. 1, and the police doctor opined he had taken liquor. An enquiry by Sub-Inspector held him guilty, and the SP dismissed him on 4 March 1965 for grave misconduct, affirmed on departmental appeal and revision. The High Court held that no prejudice was caused by non-supply of the Reserve Inspector's report, that the medical and other evidence sustained the finding, and that the gravest-misconduct standard for dismissal under Rule 16.2(1) was met on these facts. It dismissed the writ petition, leaving the dismissal intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable (No. 1751), posted at the Police Lines, Ambala, allegedly consumed liquor off duty on 3 January 1965 and created a noisy, rowdy scene in Barrack No. 1, and the police doctor opined he had taken liquor. An enquiry by Sub-Inspector held him guilty, and the SP dismissed him on 4 March 1965 for grave misconduct, affirmed on departmental appeal and revision. The High Court held that no prejudice was caused by non-supply of the Reserve Inspector's report, that the medical and other evidence sustained the finding, and that the gravest-misconduct standard for dismissal under Rule 16.2(1) was met on these facts. It dismissed the writ petition, leaving the dismissal intact.", "court_quote": "Having carefully gone through the impugned orders, I cannot find any error or lacunao which may be deemed to be apparent on the face of the record. After giving due weight to the issues raised, I find the petition devoid of merit and it is, therefore, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for drunken rowdyism in Police Lines upheld — disciplinary_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": "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": "1967-08-01", "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": "AIR 1970 P&H 81; (1968) 1 ILR (P&H) 368", "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/1669326/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/610712/bhagwat-parshad-vs-inspector-general", "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-74" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1975-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0156", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police CID Police Constable vs The State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police CID Police Constable vs The State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Sonipat", "district_at_time": "Rohtak", "city_town": "Murthal (Sonepat)", "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police (CID); trap at Dogra Hotel, Sonepat", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police CID Police Constable vs The State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 201 of 1971", "citation": "AIR 1976 SC 202; (1976) 1 SCC 389", "judges": [ "P. K. Goswami", "P. N. Bhagwati", "N. L. Untwalia" ], "judgment_date": "1975-12-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1975, "incident_date": "1968-04-25", "incident_year": 1968, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 165-A" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "CID Police Constable", "unit": "Haryana Police (CID)", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "CID Police Constable, Haryana Police (CID)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1027045/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of CID constable, who offered Rs 1,000 to Head Constable to substitute seized stolen gold coins recovered from Rameshwar Dass at Murthal bus stand on 25 April 1968 and sabotage the Section 411 IPC case. [name withheld] reported to the DSP, and a raiding party caught [name withheld] at Dogra Hotel with substitute coins and the bribe money. The Court held a 'hostile' witness's testimony can sustain conviction if corroborated, upholding one year's RI under Section 165-A IPC. (Headnote loosely calls the appellant a Head Constable; the judgment body states he is a CID police constable.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of CID constable, who offered Rs 1,000 to Head Constable to substitute seized stolen gold coins recovered from Rameshwar Dass at Murthal bus stand on 25 April 1968 and sabotage the Section 411 IPC case. [name withheld] reported to the DSP, and a raiding party caught [name withheld] at Dogra Hotel with substitute coins and the bribe money. The Court held a 'hostile' witness's testimony can sustain conviction if corroborated, upholding one year's RI under Section 165-A IPC. (Headnote loosely calls the appellant a Head Constable; the judgment body states he is a CID police constable.)", "court_quote": "There is, therefore, clear abetment by the appellant of the offence under section 161 I.P.C. and the ingredients of section 165A I.P.C. are established against him.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified: CID constable's Sec 165-A conviction (1 yr RI) upheld; hostile-witness plea rejected.", "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": 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 1976 SC 202; (1976) 1 SCC 389", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1975-12-09", "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 1976 SC 202; (1976) 1 SCC 389", "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/1027045/", "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-04", "chunk-r03" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-037", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1979-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0155", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan) vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan) vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Ambala", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ambala", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Solan (SHO); trap laid at Ambala", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan) vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 214 of 1974", "citation": "AIR 1979 SC 1820; (1980) 1 SCC 124", "judges": [ "S. Murtaza Fazal Ali", "A. D. Koshal" ], "judgment_date": "1979-02-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1979, "incident_date": "1969-12-19", "incident_year": 1969, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)", "IPC 161" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan)", "unit": "Haryana Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.98, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan), Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ambala man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1560370/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector, in charge of a police station investigating a Bank of Patiala godown theft reported by an Ambala man, who demanded Rs 3,000 to help the complainant. Haryana Vigilance trapped him at Ambala on 19 December 1969, recovering the marked currency notes with the hand-wash turning red. The Court held the independent witnesses unshaken and refused leniency, upholding one year's RI with a Rs 2,000 fine under Section 5(2) of the 1947 PC Act and one year's RI under Section 161 IPC, concurrent. (Posting stated as PS Solan; trap and prosecution at Ambala, Haryana.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector, in charge of a police station investigating a Bank of Patiala godown theft reported by an Ambala man, who demanded Rs 3,000 to help the complainant. Haryana Vigilance trapped him at Ambala on 19 December 1969, recovering the marked currency notes with the hand-wash turning red. The Court held the independent witnesses unshaken and refused leniency, upholding one year's RI with a Rs 2,000 fine under Section 5(2) of the 1947 PC Act and one year's RI under Section 161 IPC, concurrent. (Posting stated as PS Solan; trap and prosecution at Ambala, Haryana.)", "court_quote": "This fact, however, has been proved by the evidence of independent witnesses and accepted by two courts and we find ourselves unable to differ with the view taken by them. Moreover, the appellant was clever Police Officer and wanted to take all possible precautions.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified: SHO's Rs 3,000 bribe conviction upheld (1 yr RI Sec 5(2) PC Act + 1 yr Sec 161); 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": "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": 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 1979 SC 1820; (1980) 1 SCC 124", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1979-02-14", "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 1979 SC 1820; (1980) 1 SCC 124", "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/1560370/", "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-04", "chunk-r03" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1980-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0164", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana police post (in charge)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "SLP (Crl) No. 679 of 1980", "citation": "AIR 1980 SC 1087; (1980) 3 SCC 70", "judges": [ "V.R. Krishna Iyer", "E.S. Venkataramiah" ], "judgment_date": "1980-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1980, "incident_date": "1978-01-01", "incident_year": 1978, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Haryana Police", "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": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Haryana 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/446624/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609abebe4b014971140da4c" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed ASI 's special leave petition and sustained his life sentence for murdering theft suspect [name withheld] by custodial torture. In charge of a Haryana police post, the officer subjected suspects in an overnight theft case to severe flagellation, including the soles of the feet, as 'investigation'; a Haryana man succumbed inside police premises to asphyxiation with torture marks, and the officer's false explanation of suicidal hanging was rejected by the trial court and the High Court. Denouncing the diabolical recurrence of police torture, the Court found no error in the appreciation of evidence and urged the State to stamp out third-degree methods. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed ASI 's special leave petition and sustained his life sentence for murdering theft suspect [name withheld] by custodial torture. In charge of a Haryana police post, the officer subjected suspects in an overnight theft case to severe flagellation, including the soles of the feet, as 'investigation'; a Haryana man succumbed inside police premises to asphyxiation with torture marks, and the officer's false explanation of suicidal hanging was rejected by the trial court and the High Court. Denouncing the diabolical recurrence of police torture, the Court found no error in the appreciation of evidence and urged the State to stamp out third-degree methods.", "court_quote": "We are deeply disturbed by the diabolical recurrence of police torture resulting in a terrible scare in the minds of common citizens that their lives and liberty are under a new peril when the guardians of the law gore human rights to death.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; ASI's murder conviction (life) for custodial torture-death, SLP 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 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": 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 1980 SC 1087; (1980) 3 SCC 70", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1980-03-31", "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 1980 SC 1087; (1980) 3 SCC 70", "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/446624/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609abebe4b014971140da4c", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1984-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0890", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhiwani Man vs [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "Bhiwani Man vs [name withheld]", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Bhiwani", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhiwani", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhiwani Man vs [name withheld]", "case_number": "Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1982", "citation": "(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029", "judges": [ "B.S. Yadav" ], "judgment_date": "1984-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1984, "incident_date": "1980-05-03", "incident_year": 1980, "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 330", "IPC 323", "Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.4(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana 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": "Station House Officer, Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bhiwani man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1782919/" ], "summary": "SHO of Police Station City Bhiwani arrested complainant [name withheld] on 3 May 1980 after a gold-smuggling search of his shop and house recovered nothing, and the judgment records that the SHO tortured him in custody to extort money before handing him to Central Excise inspectors who also beat him. The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhiwani, convicted the SHO under Sections 330 and 323 IPC on 17 November 1980 but released him on one year's probation, and both sides' appeals were dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge. In revision the High Court held that probation had been granted without calling for the Probation Officer's report, in breach of the mandatory Section 4(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. It left the conviction undisturbed, set aside the probation orders, and remanded the case to the trial court for fresh orders on sentence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "SHO of Police Station City Bhiwani arrested complainant [name withheld] on 3 May 1980 after a gold-smuggling search of his shop and house recovered nothing, and the judgment records that the SHO tortured him in custody to extort money before handing him to Central Excise inspectors who also beat him. The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhiwani, convicted the SHO under Sections 330 and 323 IPC on 17 November 1980 but released him on one year's probation, and both sides' appeals were dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge. In revision the High Court held that probation had been granted without calling for the Probation Officer's report, in breach of the mandatory Section 4(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. It left the conviction undisturbed, set aside the probation orders, and remanded the case to the trial court for fresh orders on sentence.", "court_quote": "After completion of the trial, the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate convicted the respondent under section 330 and 323 of the Code and gave him benefit of Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (for short the Act) and released him on probation for one year.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Conviction u/ss 330/323 IPC left intact; probation set aside and remanded for fresh sentence — conviction_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 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1984-01-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1782919/", "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-74" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1989-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0163", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Prem Chand and Anr. vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Prem Chand and Anr. vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Bhiwani", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhiwani", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Patram Gate", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Prem Chand and Anr. vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 544-45 of 1986", "citation": "AIR 1989 SC 937; 1989 Supp (1) SCC 286", "judges": [ "B.C. Ray", "S. Ratnavel Pandian" ], "judgment_date": "1989-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1989, "incident_date": "1984-05-31", "incident_year": 1984, "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": "Prem Chand", "rank": null, "unit": "Police Post Patram Gate, Bhiwani", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt56:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "no", "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Prem Chand", "display": "Prem Chand" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Police Post Patram Gate, Bhiwani", "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": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Police Post Patram Gate, Bhiwani" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bhiwani woman", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "the complainant" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1635563/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/476694/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of two Bhiwani police-post officials who raped the complainant inside Police Post Patram Gate after bringing her and her companion there from the bus stand on their way to Jammu. The trial court had convicted both policemen under Section 376(2) IPC with the 10-year minimum, and the Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the convictions while acquitting the co-accused [name withheld]. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions but invoked the proviso to Section 376(2) to reduce each sentence from 10 to 5 years' RI, a ruling widely criticised for negating the 1983 minimum-sentence amendment; the State's review was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of two Bhiwani police-post officials who raped Suman Rani inside Police Post Patram Gate after bringing her and her companion there from the bus stand on their way to Jammu. The trial court had convicted both policemen under Section 376(2) IPC with the 10-year minimum, and the Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the convictions while acquitting the co-accused [name withheld]. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions but invoked the proviso to Section 376(2) to reduce each sentence from 10 to 5 years' RI, a ruling widely criticised for negating the 1983 minimum-sentence amendment; the State's review was dismissed.", "court_quote": "Accordingly, while affirming the conviction of both these appellants as confirmed by the High Court, we reduce the sentence of imprisonment in respect of each of the appellants from 10 years to 5 years. Both the appeals are accordingly disposed of subject to the modification of sentence, as indicated above.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; custodial rape convictions of two policemen affirmed, sentence cut 10 to 5 years.", "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 1989 SC 937; 1989 Supp (1) SCC 286", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1989-01-31", "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 1989 SC 937; 1989 Supp (1) SCC 286", "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/1635563/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/476694/", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-009", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1993-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0681", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Kaithal", "district_at_time": "Kurukshetra", "city_town": "Cheeka", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Cheeka / CIA Staff Cheeka, Guhla", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal (arising from Punjab and Haryana High Court Criminal Appeal No. 10-DBA of 1988)", "citation": "(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092", "judges": [ "K. Jayachandra Reddy", "N.P. 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On 15 September 1986 the police threw his body under a bus to fake a road accident; the post-mortem found 15 injuries with fractured ribs and injuries to the liver, spleen and testes. The Sessions Court had let the officers off on probation, but the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted them under Section 304 Part I IPC with 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court held the custodial beating proved beyond reasonable doubt, treated the officers' failure to explain the custody death as fatal, but altered the conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC (knowledge, not intention) and reduced each sentence to 5 years' rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Cheeka man, a theft suspect re-arrested on 8 September 1986, was held in the Cheeka police lock-up where his father, uncle and the village Sarpanch saw all four accused policemen beat him over several days. On 15 September 1986 the police threw his body under a bus to fake a road accident; the post-mortem found 15 injuries with fractured ribs and injuries to the liver, spleen and testes. The Sessions Court had let the officers off on probation, but the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted them under Section 304 Part I IPC with 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court held the custodial beating proved beyond reasonable doubt, treated the officers' failure to explain the custody death as fatal, but altered the conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC (knowledge, not intention) and reduced each sentence to 5 years' rigorous imprisonment.", "court_quote": "This is yet another case of death in police custody.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; custodial death by police beating upheld, conviction modified to IPC 304 Part II with 5 years RI each.", "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": 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": "(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1993-04-28", "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": "(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092", "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/1240824/", "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-49" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP1-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1995-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1101", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Hisar", "district_at_time": "Hissar", "city_town": "Hisar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sadar, Hisar", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 15 of 1994", "citation": "AIR 1995 SC 1795; (1995) 3 SCC 214", "judges": [ "Dr. A. S. Anand", "Faizan Uddin" ], "judgment_date": "1995-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": "1994-01-15", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.2(c)", "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Hisar, Haryana 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": "Superintendent of Police, Hisar, Haryana Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Hisar, Haryana 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": "Additional Superintendent of Police, Hisar, Haryana Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector / Station House Officer", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Station Sadar, Hisar, Haryana 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": "Inspector / Station House Officer, Police Station Sadar, Hisar, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hisar man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hisar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1877695/", "secondary_sources": [ "http://advocatetanmoy.com/dhananjay-sharma-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-02-05-1995/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 2 May 1995 convicted three Haryana Police officers — SP, Addl. SP and SHO of Sadar, Hissar — of criminal contempt in a habeas corpus case. The Court, acting on a CBI enquiry report, found that a Hisar man and taxi driver [name withheld] had been illegally detained at Hissar police station from 15 to 17 January 1994, that the officers filed false affidavits denying the detention, and that two of them tutored the driver to give false evidence while proceedings were pending. The Court rejected their apologies as not genuine, calling their conduct a calculated obstruction of justice. It sentenced the SP to two months' simple imprisonment and the other two to three months each with fines of Rs. 1,500, while dropping perjury proceedings and declining compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 2 May 1995 convicted three Haryana Police officers — SP, Addl. SP and SHO of Sadar, Hissar — of criminal contempt in a habeas corpus case. The Court, acting on a CBI enquiry report, found that a Hisar man and taxi driver [name withheld] had been illegally detained at Hissar police station from 15 to 17 January 1994, that the officers filed false affidavits denying the detention, and that two of them tutored the driver to give false evidence while proceedings were pending. The Court rejected their apologies as not genuine, calling their conduct a calculated obstruction of justice. It sentenced the SP to two months' simple imprisonment and the other two to three months each with fines of Rs. 1,500, while dropping perjury proceedings and declining compensation.", "court_quote": "respondents 3 to 5 have, thus committed a grave contempt of this Court by not only interfering with the due course of justice but also making calculated and deliberate attempts to obstruct the administration of justice.", "court_quote_para": "42", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC convicted Hissar SP, Addl SP and SHO of criminal contempt over illegal detention, false affidavits and tutoring a witness.", "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": "1995-05-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1795; (1995) 3 SCC 214", "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/1877695/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "http://advocatetanmoy.com/dhananjay-sharma-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others-02-05-1995/", "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": "GAP3-127-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1996-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1108", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police and Another vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police and Another vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Faridabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Faridabad", "police_station_or_unit": "GRP Faridabad / GRP Ambala Cantonment (CIA)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police and Another vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petitions (Crl.) Nos. 356-357 of 1993", "citation": "(1996) 7 SCC 397; AIR 1996 SC 2326; JT 1996 (1) 328", "judges": [ "K. Ramaswamy", "G. B. Pattanaik" ], "judgment_date": "1996-01-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1993-10-12", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 193", "Constitution Art 129" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Government Railway Police (CIA), Haryana", "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": "Superintendent of Police, Government Railway Police (CIA), Haryana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Government Railway Police, Haryana", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Haryana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Government Railway Police, Faridabad/Ambala, Haryana", "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, Government Railway Police, Faridabad/Ambala, Haryana" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Faridabad man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Faridabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/421059/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1996/january/afzal-anr-vs-state-of-haryana-ors-87" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court convicted three Haryana Government Railway Police officers for fabricating evidence in a habeas corpus case. The Court found that a CIA-GRP team hunting fraud accused [name withheld] had seized his minor son, a minor boy, and another boy a minor boy at Agra and kept them in wrongful confinement from mid-October 1993 till 31 October 1993. The Court held the counter-affidavits denying custody, proved false by DGP, District Judge and CBI inquiries, made out offences under Section 193 IPC and, for SP, criminal contempt. It sentenced [name withheld] to one year's RI plus six months for contempt (concurrent), the SI to six months and the ASI to three months, and directed the DGP to take them into custody. Later proceedings: on 27 October 1999, the Supreme Court of India set aside the conviction/order concerning [name withheld]; on 6 January 2000, the Supreme Court of India set aside the conviction/order concerning [name withheld]; the findings against the remaining officers stand as recorded in this judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court convicted three Haryana Government Railway Police officers for fabricating evidence in a habeas corpus case. The Court found that a CIA-GRP team hunting fraud accused [name withheld] had seized his minor son, a minor boy, and another boy a minor boy at Agra and kept them in wrongful confinement from mid-October 1993 till 31 October 1993. The Court held the counter-affidavits denying custody, proved false by DGP, District Judge and CBI inquiries, made out offences under Section 193 IPC and, for SP, criminal contempt. It sentenced [name withheld] to one year's RI plus six months for contempt (concurrent), the SI to six months and the ASI to three months, and directed the DGP to take them into custody.", "court_quote": "[name withheld] is unworthy to hold any office of responsibility.", "court_quote_para": "72", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC convicted SP, SI and ASI under s.193 IPC (SP also Art 129 contempt) for false affidavits denying custody of two confined minors.", "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": "1996-01-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1996) 7 SCC 397; AIR 1996 SC 2326; JT 1996 (1) 328", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "1999-10-27", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/504950/", "outcome": "conviction_set_aside" }, { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2000-01-06", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/698665/", "outcome": "conviction_set_aside" } ], "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/421059/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1996/january/afzal-anr-vs-state-of-haryana-ors-87", "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-99" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1999-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1109", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Another", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Faridabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Faridabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Government Railway Police, Haryana", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police vs State of Haryana and Another", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 353 of 1997", "citation": "AIR 2000 SC 168; 1999 Supp(4) SCR 160", "judges": [ "Dr. A. S. Anand", "S. Rajendra Babu", "R. C. Lahoti" ], "judgment_date": "1999-10-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1993-11-02", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 193", "Constitution Art 129", "CrPC 195", "CrPC 340" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Government Railway Police, Haryana", "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": "Superintendent of Police, Government Railway Police, Haryana" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/504950/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court partly allowed IPS officer 's Article 32 challenge to his 17 January 1996 conviction for fabricating records in the Afzal habeas corpus matter, while expressly upholding his contempt conviction. The Court held the Section 193 IPC conviction, imposed via show-cause notice, was without jurisdiction because the mandatory Sections 195/340 CrPC complaint procedure had been bypassed and Article 142 could not supplant it. It therefore recalled the Section 193 conviction but directed no fresh complaint since the sentence had already been undergone. The Court expressly upheld the Article 129 contempt conviction and six-month sentence, recording the petitioner's undertaking to claim no compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court partly allowed IPS officer 's Article 32 challenge to his 17 January 1996 conviction for fabricating records in the Afzal habeas corpus matter, while expressly upholding his contempt conviction. The Court held the Section 193 IPC conviction, imposed via show-cause notice, was without jurisdiction because the mandatory Sections 195/340 CrPC complaint procedure had been bypassed and Article 142 could not supplant it. It therefore recalled the Section 193 conviction but directed no fresh complaint since the sentence had already been undergone. The Court expressly upheld the Article 129 contempt conviction and six-month sentence, recording the petitioner's undertaking to claim no compensation.", "court_quote": "To perpetuate an error is no virtue but to correct it is a compulsion of judicial conscience. We, therefore, unhesitatingly set aside the conviction of the petitioner for the offence under Section 193 IPC. We also do not at this stage, consider it expedient to direct the filing of a complaint in the competent court as envisaged by Section 340 Cr.P.C. because the petitioner has already undergone the sentence imposed upon him for an offence under Section 193 IPC although set aside now by this order and we are upholding his conviction and sentence imposed under Article 129 of the Constitution of India for committing contempt of court.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "s.193 IPC conviction recalled for want of Ss.195/340 CrPC procedure; Art 129 contempt conviction and 6-month sentence expressly 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": "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": 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 2000 SC 168; 1999 Supp(4) SCR 160", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1999-10-27", "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 2000 SC 168; 1999 Supp(4) SCR 160", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/504950/", "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-99" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-018", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0886", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Narwana Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Narwana Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Jind", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Narwana", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Narwana Man and Others vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1263 of 1996", "citation": "(2000) 2 RCR (Criminal) 560", "judges": [ "K. S. Kumaran" ], "judgment_date": "2000-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1996-07-29", "incident_year": 1996, "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", "Excise Act s.61(1)(14)", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226/227" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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, Police Station Sadar Narwana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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, Police Station Sadar Narwana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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": "Station House Officer, Police Station Sadar Narwana" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Narwana", "role": "named_only", "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": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Narwana" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 41, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Narwana man, age 41" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/154381/rajwant-kaur-and-others-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court accepted a Sessions Judge's enquiry finding that a Narwana man, 41, was illegally arrested and murdered in the custody of Police Station Sadar Narwana on the night of 28-29 July 1996 by being given alcohol laced with aluminium phosphide. The court rejected the police and co-detainee accounts as unreliable, held the State vicariously liable under Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu, and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation payable within two months. It transferred investigation of FIR No. 268 of 1996 under Section 302 IPC to the CBI for prosecution of the guilty, leaving individual culpability to that probe. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court accepted a Sessions Judge's enquiry finding that a Narwana man, 41, was illegally arrested and murdered in the custody of Police Station Sadar Narwana on the night of 28-29 July 1996 by being given alcohol laced with aluminium phosphide. The court rejected the police and co-detainee accounts as unreliable, held the State vicariously liable under Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu, and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation payable within two months. It transferred investigation of FIR No. 268 of 1996 under Section 302 IPC to the CBI for prosecution of the guilty, leaving individual culpability to that probe.", "court_quote": "Therefore, from the materials placed before the Court, especially the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory and the opinion of the Board of Doctors, who gave the opinion that a Narwana man died of aluminium phosphide (celphos) poisoning, it is clear that a Narwana man had been killed while he was in police custody by giving/infesting into him the ethyle alcohol and the above said poison.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held a Narwana man illegally arrested and murdered in custody by poisoning; Rs 1.5L compensation and CBI probe ordered.", "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": "2000-03-31", "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 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2000) 2 RCR (Criminal) 560", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/154381/rajwant-kaur-and-others-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "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-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1068", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gurgaon Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Gurgaon Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Gurugram", "district_at_time": "Gurgaon", "city_town": "Gurgaon", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station City Gurgaon", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gurgaon Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.23-SB of 1996", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia" ], "judgment_date": "2009-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1992-08-31", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)(ii)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Station City Gurgaon", "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, Police Station City Gurgaon" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gurgaon man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/687389/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the corruption conviction of Head Constable of Police Station City Gurgaon, who was caught red-handed accepting a Rs.1,000 bribe he had demanded for not implicating complainant [name withheld] in a theft case. A trap team recovered initialed phenolphthalein-smeared notes from him and his hand-wash turned pink. The Court held demand, acceptance and recovery proved, rejecting the defence of enmity and the missing shadow witness, and dismissed the appeal. It reduced the sentence from two years to one year rigorous imprisonment only because the proceedings had dragged on for sixteen years since 1992. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the corruption conviction of Head Constable of Police Station City Gurgaon, who was caught red-handed accepting a Rs.1,000 bribe he had demanded for not implicating complainant [name withheld] in a theft case. A trap team recovered initialed phenolphthalein-smeared notes from him and his hand-wash turned pink. The Court held demand, acceptance and recovery proved, rejecting the defence of enmity and the missing shadow witness, and dismissed the appeal. It reduced the sentence from two years to one year rigorous imprisonment only because the proceedings had dragged on for sixteen years since 1992.", "court_quote": "Prosecution in present case has proved, demand, acceptance and recovery. They are sufficient to corroborate the testimony of PW-4 [name withheld].", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC confirmed red-handed PC Act conviction of Head Constable; sentence cut to 1 year RI for delay.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No.23-SB of 1996", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2009-01-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No.23-SB of 1996", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/687389/", "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-93" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-112-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1067", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Palam Vihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs The State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Palam Vihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs The State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Gurugram", "district_at_time": "Gurgaon", "city_town": "Palam Vihar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Palam Vihar, Gurgaon", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Palam Vihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs The State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.222-SB of 1995", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sham Sunder" ], "judgment_date": "2009-04-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1991-09-01", "incident_year": 1991, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)(ii)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Post Palam Vihar, Gurgaon", "role": "convicted", "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, Police Post Palam Vihar, Gurgaon" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Palam Vihar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60061874/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal of ASI, Incharge of Police Post Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, who had demanded Rs.10,000 from civil contractor [name withheld] to delete his name from a case and release his seized Maruti van, beating him when he resisted. The Special Judge, Gurgaon had convicted him under s.13(1)(d)(ii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and sentenced him to two years rigorous imprisonment with a Rs.1,000 fine. The High Court held demand and acceptance of gratification proved, rejected challenges to delay, witnesses and sanction, and upheld the conviction and sentence while converting the conviction to s.13(2). The appellant's bail bonds were cancelled. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal of ASI, Incharge of Police Post Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, who had demanded Rs.10,000 from civil contractor [name withheld] to delete his name from a case and release his seized Maruti van, beating him when he resisted. The Special Judge, Gurgaon had convicted him under s.13(1)(d)(ii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and sentenced him to two years rigorous imprisonment with a Rs.1,000 fine. The High Court held demand and acceptance of gratification proved, rejected challenges to delay, witnesses and sanction, and upheld the conviction and sentence while converting the conviction to s.13(2). The appellant's bail bonds were cancelled.", "court_quote": "The judgment of conviction and the order of sentence, rendered by the trial Court, with the aforesaid conversion, are upheld.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal and upheld PC Act conviction of ASI, converting it to s.13(2).", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No.222-SB of 1995", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2009-04-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No.222-SB of 1995", "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/60061874/", "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-93" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-112-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0167", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "ASI Rajender Parshad vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "ASI Rajender Parshad vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Rewari", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Khol", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Khol", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "ASI Rajender Parshad vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "LPA No. 458 of 2010 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Adarsh Kumar Goel", "Alok Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2010-04-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "2007-05-01", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Rajender Parshad", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Haryana Police (PC Act case at PS Khol, Rewari)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_agy:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rajender Parshad", "display": "Rajender Parshad (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/69065641/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1029103/" ], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed LPA 458 of 2010 and upheld the dismissal of ASI Rajender Parshad for receiving illegal gratification. The Court noted he was suspended in May 2007 and booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act at PS Khol, Rewari, and though the criminal court acquitted him on 13 May 2008, a departmental enquiry returned a verdict of guilt leading to dismissal on 30 August 2008. The Single Judge had dismissed his writ holding departmental proof differs from criminal proof. The Division Bench agreed the dismissal rested on enquiry evidence rather than criminal-court evidence and found no ground to interfere. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed LPA 458 of 2010 and upheld the dismissal of ASI Rajender Parshad for receiving illegal gratification. The Court noted he was suspended in May 2007 and booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act at PS Khol, Rewari, and though the criminal court acquitted him on 13 May 2008, a departmental enquiry returned a verdict of guilt leading to dismissal on 30 August 2008. The Single Judge had dismissed his writ holding departmental proof differs from criminal proof. The Division Bench agreed the dismissal rested on enquiry evidence rather than criminal-court evidence and found no ground to interfere.", "court_quote": "In the present case, the action has not been taken on the same evidence which was led before the criminal court but on the basis of evidence which was led in the departmental enquiry.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC Division Bench judgment verified; dismissal on enquiry evidence upheld despite criminal acquittal.", "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": "2010-04-07", "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": "LPA No. 458 of 2010 (O&M)", "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/69065641/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1029103/", "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-37" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-013", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0461", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Inspector Om Parkash v. CBI; ASI Anant Ram v. CBI; Rekha v. CBI & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Inspector Om Parkash v. CBI; ASI Anant Ram v. CBI; Rekha v. CBI & Ors.", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Gurugram", "district_at_time": "Gurgaon", "city_town": "Gurgaon", "police_station_or_unit": "CIA Staff, Gurgaon", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Inspector Om Parkash v. CBI; ASI Anant Ram v. CBI; Rekha v. CBI & Ors.", "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999", "citation": null, "judges": [ "A.N. Jindal" ], "judgment_date": "2010-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "1993-02-09", "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Om Parkash", "rank": "Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "CIA Staff, Gurgaon", "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": 0.17, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Om Parkash", "display": "Om Parkash (Inspector)" }, { "name": "Anant Ram", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "CIA Staff, Gurgaon", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt56:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "no", "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.16, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Anant Ram", "display": "Anant Ram (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Gurgaon man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86217128/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeals of a Gurgaon CIA Inspector and ASI, upholding their 7-year sentences for torturing a Gurgaon man to death in custody after he was picked up on 9 February 1993 and transferred from Delhi to CIA Staff Gurgaon. The Court relied on the jail register injury entry, the post-mortem head injury and the destruction of two MLRs, applying the custodial-death burden shift to the custodians. It held the conviction well-founded and well-reasoned. The trial acquittals of four Delhi Police officials were left undisturbed and the complainant revision was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeals of a Gurgaon CIA Inspector and ASI, upholding their 7-year sentences for torturing a Gurgaon man to death in custody after he was picked up on 9 February 1993 and transferred from Delhi to CIA Staff Gurgaon. The Court relied on the jail register injury entry, the post-mortem head injury and the destruction of two MLRs, applying the custodial-death burden shift to the custodians. It held the conviction well-founded and well-reasoned. The trial acquittals of four Delhi Police officials were left undisturbed and the complainant revision was dismissed.", "court_quote": "It is also well settled by now that when a person is in custody of the police and confined there, he is proved to have received injuries or died then no amount of further evidence was required to be produced by the prosecution in order to establish as to how and in what manner he died or received injuries, then the onus shifts upon the officers who remained his custodians.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed both appeals and revision; 7-yr terms for 2 CIA Gurgaon officers 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 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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2010-12-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86217128/", "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-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-036", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0160", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Pundri Boy and another vs The State of Haryana and others", "display_title_redacted": "Pundri Boy and another vs The State of Haryana and others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Kaithal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pundri", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Pundri", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pundri Boy and another vs The State of Haryana and others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 11653 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ranjit Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2011-01-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2007-08-13", "incident_year": 2007, "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 Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226", "CrPC s.176(1A)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Pundri", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "grok:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.23, "jev_p_culpable": 0.78, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station Pundri" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Pundri", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "grok:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.78, "jev_p_culpable": 0.46, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Pundri" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 16, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pundri boy, age 16", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pundri man", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 16, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 16-year-old boy" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/132005687/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. a 16-year-old boy (16) and a man died of celphos poisoning while locked up at Police Station Pundri, Kaithal, following an alleged illegal detention on 11 August 2007. Official inquiries revealed gross police negligence and tampering with custody timings by SHO. The High Court held the police strictly liable for the lives of detainees in their custody under Article 21 and directed the State of Haryana to pay Rs. 5,00,000 to each victim's family. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Virender Kumar (16) and Satnam died of celphos poisoning while locked up at Police Station Pundri, Kaithal, following an alleged illegal detention on 11 August 2007. Official inquiries revealed gross police negligence and tampering with custody timings by SHO. The High Court held the police strictly liable for the lives of detainees in their custody under Article 21 and directed the State of Haryana to pay Rs. 5,00,000 to each victim's family.", "court_quote": "Two persons have died while in police custody. To keep them safe and to safeguard their lives was the responsibility of the police. The police officials are, therefore, liable.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held police strictly liable for custodial poisoning deaths of two detainees at PS Pundri and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation to each family (Rs 10 lakh total).", "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": "2011-01-12", "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 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Civil Writ Petition No. 11653 of 2008", "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/132005687/", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTH-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0894", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kaithal Woman vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kaithal Woman vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Kaithal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kaithal", "police_station_or_unit": "Kaithal police (Manoj-Babli security detail)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kaithal Woman vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Crl. Misc. No. M-42311 of 2007 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ritu Bahri" ], "judgment_date": "2011-05-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2007-06-15", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Kaithal police (Manoj-Babli security detail)", "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, Kaithal police (Manoj-Babli security detail)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Kaithal 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": "Sub-Inspector, Kaithal police" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "Kaithal police escort party", "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": "Police personnel, Kaithal police escort party" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kaithal man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Kaithal woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 600000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60381696/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Kaithal man and a Kaithal woman, both majors, married on 7 April 2007 against a Kaithal woman's family's wishes, and the Sessions Judge Kaithal directed the SP Kaithal to ensure their safety while granting a Kaithal man anticipatory bail on 12 June 2007. After recording Section 164 CrPC statements on 15 June 2007, the couple left Kaithal in a police gypsy, but the escort party took a written no-protection note and left them at Pipli without informing superiors, while HC leaked their whereabouts to the accused; their bodies were recovered from Barwala Link Canal on 23 June 2007. The trial court convicted all the private accused on 25 March 2010 and observed the police had abandoned the couple. Relying on D.K. Basu and [name withheld] v. State of Punjab, the High Court rejected the State's nascent Victim Compensation Scheme defence and directed Rs 3 lakh each for the two deaths (Rs 6 lakh total) to petitioner [name withheld], allowing the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Kaithal man and a Kaithal woman, both majors, married on 7 April 2007 against a Kaithal woman's family's wishes, and the Sessions Judge Kaithal directed the SP Kaithal to ensure their safety while granting a Kaithal man anticipatory bail on 12 June 2007. After recording Section 164 CrPC statements on 15 June 2007, the couple left Kaithal in a police gypsy, but the escort party took a written no-protection note and left them at Pipli without informing superiors, while HC leaked their whereabouts to the accused; their bodies were recovered from Barwala Link Canal on 23 June 2007. The trial court convicted all the private accused on 25 March 2010 and observed the police had abandoned the couple. Relying on D.K. Basu and [name withheld] v. State of Punjab, the High Court rejected the State's nascent Victim Compensation Scheme defence and directed Rs 3 lakh each for the two deaths (Rs 6 lakh total) to petitioner [name withheld], allowing the petition.", "court_quote": "it is directed that Rs.3 lacs each on account of death of a Kaithal man and a Kaithal woman be paid to the petitioner as compensation", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "State held liable for abandoned court-ordered protection; Rs 6 lakh compensation ordered — adverse_finding_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": "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": "2011-05-27", "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 600,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Crl. Misc. No. M-42311 of 2007 (O&M)", "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/60381696/", "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-74" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-50-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1066", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hisar Man vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Hisar Man vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Hisar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hisar", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hisar Man vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No.5269 of 2011 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Kannan" ], "judgment_date": "2011-07-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2008-09-16", "incident_year": 2008, "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 294" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hisar man" } ], "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/34282208/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court held that the custodial death of petitioner [name withheld]'s husband was prima facie caused by excess police action, rejecting a Special Investigation Team report that blamed a train fall and chronic drunkenness. The Court noted the Magistrate had recorded no injuries at remand, yet the post-mortem showed a fatal head injury with multiple bruises, and the sub-jail had refused to admit the man. It directed the District Judge, Hisar to hold an enquiry and report within four months, and ordered the State to pay Rs.2 lakh interim compensation within four weeks. No individual officer was named in the order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court held that the custodial death of petitioner [name withheld]'s husband was prima facie caused by excess police action, rejecting a Special Investigation Team report that blamed a train fall and chronic drunkenness. The Court noted the Magistrate had recorded no injuries at remand, yet the post-mortem showed a fatal head injury with multiple bruises, and the sub-jail had refused to admit the man. It directed the District Judge, Hisar to hold an enquiry and report within four months, and ordered the State to pay Rs.2 lakh interim compensation within four weeks. No individual officer was named in the order.", "court_quote": "I am of the view that the case deserves a much more serious probe, for, a precious life has been lost due to what seems on the basis of records to be an excess police action.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Interim compensation with prima-facie excess-police-action finding; final District Judge enquiry was still pending.", "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": "2011-07-08", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Civil Writ Petition No.5269 of 2011 (O&M)", "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/34282208/", "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-93" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-112-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0157", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bahadurgarh Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Bahadurgarh Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Jhajjar", "district_at_time": "Rohtak", "city_town": "Bahadurgarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Linepar, PS City Bahadurgarh", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bahadurgarh Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 114-SB of 2000", "citation": null, "judges": [ "L. N. Mittal" ], "judgment_date": "2011-08-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1994-07-19", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Post Linepar, PS City Bahadurgarh", "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": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Police Post Linepar, PS City Bahadurgarh" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bahadurgarh man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149925161/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court affirmed the conviction of Head Constable of Police Post Linepar, Bahadurgarh, for demanding Rs 1,000 from a Bahadurgarh man on 18 July 1994 to hush up a matter against his brother. A trap led by DSP Shri Singh with the SDM Rohtak as shadow witness on 19 July 1994 recovered tainted notes from his shirt pocket, corroborated by hand/pocket wash. The Court held demand and acceptance proved by cogent evidence but, given 17 years' pendency and the appellant's age of 73, reduced the sentence from two years' RI to one year's RI with the Rs 1,000 fine maintained. The appellant was ordered to surrender to serve the remaining sentence.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court affirmed the conviction of Head Constable of Police Post Linepar, Bahadurgarh, for demanding Rs 1,000 from a Bahadurgarh man on 18 July 1994 to hush up a matter against his brother. A trap led by DSP Shri Singh with the SDM Rohtak as shadow witness on 19 July 1994 recovered tainted notes from his shirt pocket, corroborated by hand/pocket wash. The Court held demand and acceptance proved by cogent evidence but, given 17 years' pendency and the appellant's age of 73, reduced the sentence from two years' RI to one year's RI with the Rs 1,000 fine maintained. The appellant was ordered to surrender to serve the remaining sentence.", "court_quote": "I find that the prosecution has led sufficient cogent and credible evidence to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt. Accordingly impugned judgment of conviction is affirmed.", "court_quote_para": "27", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified: Head Constable 7 PC Act conviction affirmed; sentence cut 2 yrs to 1 yr RI.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 114-SB of 2000", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2011-08-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 114-SB of 2000", "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/149925161/", "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-04", "chunk-r03" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0158", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Narnaul Man vs State of Haryana & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Narnaul Man vs State of Haryana & Ors", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Mahendragarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Narnaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Bawal, Rewari", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Narnaul Man vs State of Haryana & Ors", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 306 of 2013", "citation": "(2013) 14 SCC 290", "judges": [ "Aftab Alam", "Ranjana Prakash Desai" ], "judgment_date": "2013-02-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2008-10-13", "incident_year": 2008, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "CrPC s.154", "CrPC s.482" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Bawal, District Rewari", "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": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Bawal, District Rewari" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Bawal, District Rewari", "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": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Police Station Bawal, District Rewari" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Bawal, District Rewari", "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": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Station Bawal, District Rewari" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station City Narnaul", "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": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station City Narnaul" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Narnaul man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80952457/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af3be4b0149711415e5e", "https://www.livelaw.in/articles/judicial-intervention-in-encounters-in-india-supreme-court-atiq-ahmed-226875" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Replace closing sentence ' ' with the attributed police version: per FIR No.351 dated 13/10/2008 lodged by ASI (para 4), a Narnaul man, a wanted accused, fired at the Bawal police party which returned fire in self-defence; respondents' counsel maintained it was a genuine encounter (para 6). Also replace 'due to the lapse of more than four years' with the court's own words: fresh investigation 'at this distant point of time, will be an exercise in futility' (para 13). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Replace closing sentence 'The police version is not recorded in the cited text.' with the attributed police version: per FIR No.351 dated 13/10/2008 lodged by ASI (para 4), a Narnaul man, a wanted accused, fired at the Bawal police party which returned fire in self-defence; respondents' counsel maintained it was a genuine encounter (para 6). Also replace 'due to the lapse of more than four years' with the court's own words: fresh investigation 'at this distant point of time, will be an exercise in futility' (para 13).", "court_quote": "After carefully perusing the inquiry report dated 17/11/2008 submitted by Tahsildar, Narnaul and the inquiry report dated 7/1/2011 submitted by the Additional Deputy Commissioner and other relevant record, we are inclined to agree with learned counsel for the appellant and learned amicus curiae that a Narnaul man appears to have died in a fake encounter.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court set aside High Court dismissal and awarded Rs 20 lakh compensation to the father of the deceased for fake encounter killing by Haryana police.", "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": "2013-02-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 2,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2013) 14 SCC 290", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80952457/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af3be4b0149711415e5e", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/articles/judicial-intervention-in-encounters-in-india-supreme-court-atiq-ahmed-226875", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-016", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1071", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Karnal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Karnal", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Civil Lines, Karnal", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajiv Narain Raina" ], "judgment_date": "2013-08-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2007-09-12", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13", "IPC 120-B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Exemptee Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Haryana Police, District Karnal", "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": "Exemptee Head Constable, Haryana Police, District Karnal" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Karnal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189731314/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Exemptee Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Karnal, thereby sustaining a major disciplinary penalty for bribe-taking. [name withheld] and Head Constable were accused in FIR No.465 of 12.9.2007 of demanding a bribe from a Karnal man under threat of a false NDPS case, but both were acquitted by the Special Judge, Karnal in 2010 after the complainant and an eyewitness turned hostile. In the parallel departmental enquiry [name withheld] was held guilty of demanding and taking his share of the bribe, punished with reversion to Constable, reduced on appeal to stoppage of one annual increment with cumulative effect plus integrity-dishonest ACRs. The Court called it proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind and directed the DGP to re-examine the clean chit given to co-delinquent not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Exemptee Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Karnal, thereby sustaining a major disciplinary penalty for bribe-taking. [name withheld] and Head Constable were accused in FIR No.465 of 12.9.2007 of demanding a bribe from a Karnal man under threat of a false NDPS case, but both were acquitted by the Special Judge, Karnal in 2010 after the complainant and an eyewitness turned hostile. In the parallel departmental enquiry [name withheld] was held guilty of demanding and taking his share of the bribe, punished with reversion to Constable, reduced on appeal to stoppage of one annual increment with cumulative effect plus integrity-dishonest ACRs. The Court called it proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind and directed the DGP to re-examine the clean chit given to co-delinquent.", "court_quote": "This Court cannot put a premium on proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ, sustaining bribe-taking penalty despite criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses.", "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": "2013-08-02", "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": "Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013", "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/189731314/", "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-93" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-113-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0159", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rewari Man vs State of Haryana and others", "display_title_redacted": "Rewari Man vs State of Haryana and others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Rewari", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rewari", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sadar Rewari", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rewari Man vs State of Haryana and others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 5439 of 2002", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Kannan" ], "judgment_date": "2013-08-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "1990-09-20", "incident_year": 1990, "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 Art. 21", "IPC 307", "IPC 323", "IPC 34", "IPC 367", "IPC 302", "IPC 342", "IPC 120" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Rewari", "role": "convicted", "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": "Inspector, Police Station Sadar Rewari" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Sadar Rewari", "role": "convicted", "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, Police Station Sadar Rewari" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 23, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rewari man, age 23" } ], "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/46383923/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Replace 'beaten to death' with attributed wording: the petitioner alleged her son was beaten mercilessly in custody (para 1); the court held death resulted from the conduct of respondents 3 and 4 with illegal detention established (para 2). Drop 'at PS Sadar Rewari' as the detention site (not stated).", "summary_verified": "Replace 'beaten to death' with attributed wording: the petitioner alleged her son was beaten mercilessly in custody (para 1); the court held death resulted from the conduct of respondents 3 and 4 with illegal detention established (para 2). Drop 'at PS Sadar Rewari' as the detention site (not stated).", "court_quote": "The State has to therefore be responsible for burdened with compensation for the ultimate cause of death.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation with 6% interest for custodial death of petitioner's 23-year-old son, recoverable from convicted police officers.", "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": "2013-08-27", "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": "Civil Writ Petition No. 5439 of 2002", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46383923/", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0161", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "District Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "display_title_redacted": "District Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Panipat", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Panipat", "police_station_or_unit": "Commando Wing, District Police Panipat, Haryana Police", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "District Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "case_number": "LPA No. 1516 of 2013", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Jasbir Singh", "Harinder Singh Sidhu" ], "judgment_date": "2014-01-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2003-02-06", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13", "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.2(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Commando Wing, District Police Panipat, Haryana Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.9, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Commando Wing, District Police Panipat, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/154534730/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/129035888/" ], "summary": "Head Constable of the Haryana Police Commando Wing, Panipat was convicted on 29 March 2011 under Sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, in an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Branch, Delhi. Following his conviction, he was dismissed from service on 7 June 2012 by Haryana Police, which he challenged contending that dismissal must await the outcome of his criminal appeal before the Delhi High Court. The Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed his Letters Patent Appeal, holding that Rule 16.2(2) of the Punjab Police Rules contains no bar against dismissal pending appeal and that it is contrary to the public interest to retain a corruption convict in the police force.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable of the Haryana Police Commando Wing, Panipat was convicted on 29 March 2011 under Sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, in an FIR registered by the Anti-Corruption Branch, Delhi. Following his conviction, he was dismissed from service on 7 June 2012 by Haryana Police, which he challenged contending that dismissal must await the outcome of his criminal appeal before the Delhi High Court. The Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed his Letters Patent Appeal, holding that Rule 16.2(2) of the Punjab Police Rules contains no bar against dismissal pending appeal and that it is contrary to the public interest to retain a corruption convict in the police force.", "court_quote": "Moreover, Hon'ble the Supreme Court has in various cases held that it is not in public interest to retain in service any official who has been convicted of an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Resultantly, the appeal is without merit and is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court Division Bench dismissed LPA and upheld dismissal of Head Constable convicted under Prevention of Corruption Act.", "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": "2014-01-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": 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"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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0166", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Barwala Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana & Others", "display_title_redacted": "Barwala Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana & Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Panchkula", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barwala", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Barwala", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Barwala Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana & Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 28466 of 2013 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Augustine George Masih" ], "judgment_date": "2014-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2008-06-01", "incident_year": 2008, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Post Barwala, Panchkula", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Barwala, Panchkula" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Post Barwala, Panchkula", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Post Barwala, Panchkula" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barwala man" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/46139803/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the dismissal of ASI, Incharge of Police Post Barwala, who with Constable attended the drowning death of Nepali labourer a Barwala man two-year-old son at Amit Poultry Farm, Barwala. The Court found he brokered a Rs 60,000 compromise instead of taking legal action, pocketed Rs 25,000 as expenditure, gave Rs 2,000 to the constable, and got the child cremated without post-mortem, with the farm owner enquiry statement proving demand and acceptance of bribe. SP Panchkula dismissed him on 19 August 2008, affirmed on appeal, revision and mercy petition. The Court held a police official found demanding and accepting bribe is unfit to continue in service and dismissed the writ. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the dismissal of ASI, Incharge of Police Post Barwala, who with Constable attended the drowning death of Nepali labourer a Barwala man two-year-old son at Amit Poultry Farm, Barwala. The Court found he brokered a Rs 60,000 compromise instead of taking legal action, pocketed Rs 25,000 as expenditure, gave Rs 2,000 to the constable, and got the child cremated without post-mortem, with the farm owner enquiry statement proving demand and acceptance of bribe. SP Panchkula dismissed him on 19 August 2008, affirmed on appeal, revision and mercy petition. The Court held a police official found demanding and accepting bribe is unfit to continue in service and dismissed the writ.", "court_quote": "The conclusion drawn by the punishment authority is fully justified as a police official, who has been found to have demanded and has been paid bribe, cannot be a fit person to be continued in service.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC judgment verified; ASI dismissal for bribe-taking upheld, writ 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": "2014-02-19", "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": "Civil Writ Petition No. 28466 of 2013 (O&M)", "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/46139803/", "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-37" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1070", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Rohtak", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rohtak", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Civil Lines, Rohtak", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No.12030 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Augustine George Masih" ], "judgment_date": "2014-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1988-05-21", "incident_year": 1988, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 420", "IPC 161", "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)", "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Haryana Police, District Rohtak", "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, Haryana Police, District Rohtak" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Rohtak resident" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/23029604/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Rohtak, upholding his dismissal from service following a corruption conviction. [name withheld] had been booked in FIR No.182 of 21.5.1988 at Police Station Civil Lines, Rohtak, convicted by the Special Judge, Rohtak in 1989 under ss.420/161 IPC and ss.5(1)(d)/5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, and sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment; the High Court sustained the conviction in 2003 while releasing him on probation. The Court held the conviction involved moral turpitude directly relatable to his duties, probation was not exoneration, and dismissal under Article 311(2)(a) and the Punjab Police Rules was fully justified. His departmental appeal and revision had already failed in 2007-2008.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Rohtak, upholding his dismissal from service following a corruption conviction. [name withheld] had been booked in FIR No.182 of 21.5.1988 at Police Station Civil Lines, Rohtak, convicted by the Special Judge, Rohtak in 1989 under ss.420/161 IPC and ss.5(1)(d)/5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, and sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment; the High Court sustained the conviction in 2003 while releasing him on probation. The Court held the conviction involved moral turpitude directly relatable to his duties, probation was not exoneration, and dismissal under Article 311(2)(a) and the Punjab Police Rules was fully justified. His departmental appeal and revision had already failed in 2007-2008.", "court_quote": "The exercise of powers under Article 311(2)(a) of the Constitution of India and Rules 16.2(2) read with Rule 16.2(4)(ix)(b) of Punjab Police Rules, awarding punishment of dismissal from service is fully justified and in accordance with law.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ and upheld dismissal of Head Constable on PC Act/moral-turpitude conviction.", "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 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"holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/23029604/", "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-93" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-113-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0682", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Faridabad Man vs The State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Faridabad Man vs The State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Faridabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Faridabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post under Police Station Central, Sector-8, Faridabad", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Faridabad Man vs The State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 14953 of 2001", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ritu Bahri" ], "judgment_date": "2014-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1996-02-07", "incident_year": 1996, "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 381", "IPC 342", "IPC 306", "IPC 120-B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)", "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, Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Incharge, Police Post", "unit": "Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)", "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": "Incharge, Police Post, Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (Moharrar)", "unit": "Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)", "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 (Moharrar), Police Post, Faridabad (PS Central, Sector-8)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Central, Faridabad", "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, Police Station Central, Faridabad" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 34, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Faridabad man, age 34" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 739400, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/111804313/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Faridabad man, a 34-year-old factory worker detained from 5 to 7 February 1996 in a theft case, died in the police-post lock-up on 7 February 1996 after consuming acid kept in the toilet. The SDM Faridabad's inquiry examined 24 persons and concluded the Incharge Police Post was grossly negligent and ASI guilty of abetment to suicide, finding death in custody after mental depression, physical torture and humiliation. The criminal trial under Sections 342/306/120-B IPC had ended in acquittal in 1997, but the High Court held that was no bar to compensation under Articles 32/226 following Nilabati Behera. The Court allowed the petition and directed the State to pay the widow Rs.7,39,400 with 9% interest from filing till realisation within three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Faridabad man, a 34-year-old factory worker detained from 5 to 7 February 1996 in a theft case, died in the police-post lock-up on 7 February 1996 after consuming acid kept in the toilet. The SDM Faridabad's inquiry examined 24 persons and concluded the Incharge Police Post was grossly negligent and ASI guilty of abetment to suicide, finding death in custody after mental depression, physical torture and humiliation. The criminal trial under Sections 342/306/120-B IPC had ended in acquittal in 1997, but the High Court held that was no bar to compensation under Articles 32/226 following Nilabati Behera. The Court allowed the petition and directed the State to pay the widow Rs.7,39,400 with 9% interest from filing till realisation within three months.", "court_quote": "The Police Department has been negligent in keeping such a substance which is injurious to human life at large in the premises of the police post.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held custodial death after torture/negligence; Rs.7,39,400 compensation with 9% interest ordered.", "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": "2014-04-04", "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 739,400.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "CWP No. 14953 of 2001", "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/111804313/", "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": "GAP8-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0162", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0589", "CWC-1478" ], "display_title": "Lohar Majra Man v. State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Lohar Majra Man v. State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Kurukshetra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lohar Majra", "police_station_or_unit": "Pehowa Police Station", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Lohar Majra Man v. State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 7697 of 1999", "citation": "2015(1) ILR Punjab and Haryana 566", "judges": [ "K. Kannan" ], "judgment_date": "2015-02-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1993-12-27", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kurukshetra", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.48, "jev_p_culpable": 0.63, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Kurukshetra" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer / Investigating Officer", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kurukshetra", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.44, "jev_p_culpable": 0.65, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer / Investigating Officer, Kurukshetra" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Lohar Majra 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://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CWP_7697_1999.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61135315/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16142980/", "https://www.livelaw.in/prosecution-of-an-innocent-man-for-rape-and-murder-violates-his-human-rights-and-he-is-entitled-to-compensation-punjab-haryana-hc", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/184376/ram-sarup-appellant-hash-state-of-haryana-and-others-respondent-2/" ], "summary": "A Lohar Majra man's daughter was found raped and murdered on 27-12-1993; after he named three suspects to the SHO, he was himself detained, arrested and prosecuted for her rape and murder. The court found, relying on an earlier PIL finding and a CBI report, that the investigation was inept and motivated: the suspects were never interrogated, fingerprints were never collected, and recovery-memo evidence was manipulated. It held the petitioner had suffered malicious prosecution and unjustified incarceration at the hands of the SHO as Investigating Officer with the Superintendent of Police as mentor. The State was ordered to pay Rs. 5 lakh with 9% interest from the date of petition plus Rs. 10,000 costs, with liberty to recover from the two officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Lohar Majra man's daughter was found raped and murdered on 27-12-1993; after he named three suspects to the SHO, he was himself detained, arrested and prosecuted for her rape and murder. The court found, relying on an earlier PIL finding and a CBI report, that the investigation was inept and motivated: the suspects were never interrogated, fingerprints were never collected, and recovery-memo evidence was manipulated. It held the petitioner had suffered malicious prosecution and unjustified incarceration at the hands of the SHO as Investigating Officer with the Superintendent of Police as mentor. The State was ordered to pay Rs. 5 lakh with 9% interest from the date of petition plus Rs. 10,000 costs, with liberty to recover from the two officers.", "court_quote": "Malice is writ large in a situation that apart from prosecuting an innocent person, grave suspects were allowed to go scot-free by inept investigation and a motivated attempt to screen the real accused.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: Rs.5 lakh + 9% interest for malicious prosecution by named SHO and SP.", "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": "2015-02-09", "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": "2015(1) ILR Punjab and Haryana 566", "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_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CWP_7697_1999.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61135315/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16142980/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/prosecution-of-an-innocent-man-for-rape-and-murder-violates-his-human-rights-and-he-is-entitled-to-compensation-punjab-haryana-hc", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/184376/ram-sarup-appellant-hash-state-of-haryana-and-others-respondent-2/", "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-05", "chunk-39", "chunk-44" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0339", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Panchkula", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Panchkula", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police IPS officer v. C.B.I. and Anr.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 2126 of 2010", "citation": "(2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486", "judges": [ "V. Gopala Gowda", "R. K. Agrawal" ], "judgment_date": "2016-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "1990-08-12", "incident_year": 1990, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 354" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "IPS officer", "unit": "Haryana Police", "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": "IPS officer, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 15, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Panchkula girl, age 15", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 15, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a 15-year-old girl" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30822518/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/09/23/ruchika-girhotra-case-s-p-s-rathores-conviction-upheld-sentence-mitigated-due-to-old-age/", "https://www.livelaw.in/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court confirmed the Section 354 IPC conviction of senior IPS officer for molesting 15-year-old tennis player a 15-year-old girl in his lawn-tennis association office garage in Panchkula on 12 August 1990. The Court held the eyewitness account of her friend a minor girl, who saw [name withheld] grab a 15-year-old girl hand and waist, was unimpeachable, and rejected the false-implication defence. It reduced the 18-month sentence to the period already undergone of about six months as a special case given his advanced age, health, family illness and prolonged trial. a 15-year-old girl died by suicide in December 1993 after alleged prolonged harassment of her family. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court confirmed the Section 354 IPC conviction of senior IPS officer for molesting 15-year-old tennis player a minor girl in his lawn-tennis association office garage in Panchkula on 12 August 1990. The Court held the eyewitness account of her friend a minor girl, who saw [name withheld] grab a minor girl hand and waist, was unimpeachable, and rejected the false-implication defence. It reduced the 18-month sentence to the period already undergone of about six months as a special case given his advanced age, health, family illness and prolonged trial. a minor girl died by suicide in December 1993 after alleged prolonged harassment of her family.", "court_quote": "In view of the foregoing discussion, we confirm the conviction of the appellant-accused under Section 354 of the IPC while modifying the sentence to the period already undergone.", "court_quote_para": "36", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "s.354 conviction of IPS officer confirmed; 18-month sentence cut to period undergone as special case.", "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": 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": "(2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2016-09-23", "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": "(2017) 5 SCC 817; AIR 2016 SC 4486", "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/30822518/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/09/23/ruchika-girhotra-case-s-p-s-rathores-conviction-upheld-sentence-mitigated-due-to-old-age/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/ruchika-molestation-case-sc-upholds-rathods-conviction-reduces-jail-term", "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-30", "chunk-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-020", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1072", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Inspector vs State of Haryana", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Inspector vs State of Haryana", "state": "Haryana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon (FIR No.17 of 07.07.2012)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Inspector vs State of Haryana", "case_number": "CWP No.24214 of 2015 (O&M)", "citation": "(2017) 03 P&H CK 0127", "judges": [ "Kuldip Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2017-03-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2012-07-07", "incident_year": 2012, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Haryana 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": "Inspector, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Haryana man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/180282/suraj-bhan-vs-state-of-haryana/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Inspector of the Haryana Police, upholding a 15% cut in pension imposed for bribe-taking. [name withheld] was booked in FIR No.17 of 7.7.2012 under ss.7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon, with Rs.10,000 of tainted notes recovered from under his mattress, and a departmental enquiry held him guilty in February 2014. The Special Judge, Palwal acquitted him in the criminal trial in October 2014 after complainant [name withheld] turned hostile, but the department imposed the pension cut in January 2015 and the DGP dismissed his appeal in July 2015. The Court held the complainant was won over, other witnesses proved the recovery, and preponderance of probabilities sustains the departmental penalty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Inspector of the Haryana Police, upholding a 15% cut in pension imposed for bribe-taking. [name withheld] was booked in FIR No.17 of 7.7.2012 under ss.7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon, with Rs.10,000 of tainted notes recovered from under his mattress, and a departmental enquiry held him guilty in February 2014. The Special Judge, Palwal acquitted him in the criminal trial in October 2014 after complainant [name withheld] turned hostile, but the department imposed the pension cut in January 2015 and the DGP dismissed his appeal in July 2015. The Court held the complainant was won over, other witnesses proved the recovery, and preponderance of probabilities sustains the departmental penalty.", "court_quote": "However, other witnesses did prove that when the raid was conducted, the petitioner took out the tainted money of Rs. 10,000/- below his matress and hand over the same to the raiding party.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ and upheld 15% pension cut for bribe-taking despite criminal acquittal on hostile complainant.", "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": "2017-03-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2017) 03 P&H CK 0127", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/180282/suraj-bhan-vs-state-of-haryana/", "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-93" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-114-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "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" }, { "record_id": "CW-2021-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1075", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "state": "Haryana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "case_number": "CWP No. 19471 of 2020 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sudhir Mittal" ], "judgment_date": "2021-02-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "2008-07-14", "incident_year": 2008, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.3" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Haryana 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, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/85505449/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed as a Haryana Police constable on 14 July 2008, FIR No. 189 dated the same day named him as an accused, and he was dismissed on 16 July 2008, with his departmental appeal and revision failing. After his acquittal in the criminal trial on 30 July 2019 he sought reinstatement, which was rejected. The High Court held Rule 16.3 of the Punjab Police Rules bars departmental punishment after a judicial acquittal but has no application where dismissal preceded the trial and only reinstatement is sought. The court held no rule provides for reinstatement upon acquittal and dismissed the writ, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was appointed as a Haryana Police constable on 14 July 2008, FIR No. 189 dated the same day named him as an accused, and he was dismissed on 16 July 2008, with his departmental appeal and revision failing. After his acquittal in the criminal trial on 30 July 2019 he sought reinstatement, which was rejected. The High Court held Rule 16.3 of the Punjab Police Rules bars departmental punishment after a judicial acquittal but has no application where dismissal preceded the trial and only reinstatement is sought. The court held no rule provides for reinstatement upon acquittal and dismissed the writ, so the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "Although the reason for rejection of the request for reinstatement may be erroneous, the order has to be upheld on the ground that there is no Rule providing for reinstatement upon acquittal in a criminal case.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal of constable named in FIR on enrolment day upheld; no rule mandates reinstatement on acquittal.", "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": "2021-02-11", "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 No. 19471 of 2020 (O&M)", "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/85505449/", "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-94" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-116-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2021-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1120", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable-Driver", "display_title_redacted": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable-Driver", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Panchkula", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pinjore", "police_station_or_unit": "CRPF Group Centre, Pinjore", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable-Driver", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 6723 of 2021", "citation": "(2022) 1 SCC 373; 2021 SCC OnLine SC 1041", "judges": [ "Ajay Rastogi", "Abhay S. Oka" ], "judgment_date": "2021-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "2003-09-12", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "CRPF Act 1949 s.11(1)", "CRPF Rules 1955 Rule 27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable-Driver", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CRPF, 120 Bn", "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-Driver, CRPF, 120 Bn" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Pinjore resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/union-of-india-vs-ex-constable-ram-karan-ll-2021-sc-640-1-403881.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On 12 September 2003 the respondent, a CRPF constable-driver attached to the Group Centre and posted at Pinjore, forcibly entered a government doctor chamber demanding attestation of a medical-reimbursement claim and, on refusal, abused and struck the doctor causing facial injury; he then lodged a false complaint alleging the doctor had harassed his wife. Both charges were held proved in a Rule 27 inquiry and removal from service was imposed on 14 July 2004, upheld in departmental appeal and revision. The Delhi High Court upheld the findings but substituted removal with confinement in the quarter-guard plus reinstatement. The Supreme Court held the quantum of punishment lies exclusively with the disciplinary authority, allowed the Union appeal and quashed the High Court judgment, restoring the removal.", "summary_verified": "On 12 September 2003 the respondent, a CRPF constable-driver attached to the Group Centre and posted at Pinjore, forcibly entered a government doctor chamber demanding attestation of a medical-reimbursement claim and, on refusal, abused and struck the doctor causing facial injury; he then lodged a false complaint alleging the doctor had harassed his wife. Both charges were held proved in a Rule 27 inquiry and removal from service was imposed on 14 July 2004, upheld in departmental appeal and revision. The Delhi High Court upheld the findings but substituted removal with confinement in the quarter-guard plus reinstatement. The Supreme Court held the quantum of punishment lies exclusively with the disciplinary authority, allowed the Union appeal and quashed the High Court judgment, restoring the removal.", "court_quote": "What punishment was required to be imposed, in the facts and circumstances of the case, was a matter which fell exclusively within the jurisdiction of the competent authority and the interference made by the High Court is in a cavalier manner while recording the finding of penalty to be disproportionate without taking into consideration the seriousness of the misconduct committed by the respondent which is unpardonable and not sustainable in law.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC allowed UOI appeal; removal of CRPF constable-driver for assault on doctor restored.", "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": "2021-11-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2022) 1 SCC 373; 2021 SCC OnLine SC 1041", "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/union-of-india-vs-ex-constable-ram-karan-ll-2021-sc-640-1-403881.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-100" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-134-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0169", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar", "display_title_redacted": "State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Rohtak", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rohtak", "police_station_or_unit": "CIA-3, Rohtak", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar", "case_number": "LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "G. S. Sandhawalia", "Vikas Suri" ], "judgment_date": "2022-05-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2014-01-01", "incident_year": 2014, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Satish Kumar", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "CIA-3, Rohtak, Haryana Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_agy:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Satish Kumar", "display": "Satish Kumar (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rohtak man" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/63899068/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowed the State appeal in LPA 565 of 2020, set aside the Single Judge reinstatement order of 23 October 2019, and restored the dismissal of ASI Satish Kumar of CIA-3 Rohtak. The Court found he made complainant [name withheld] believe he could get his brother dropped from the accused in FIR 454 of 2014, and the Vigilance Bureau arrested him with hands turned pink from the marked money. He was dismissed on 29 October 2015 after an enquiry in which the complainant supported the charge, though he later turned hostile in the criminal trial ending in acquittal. The Bench held the dismissal rested on independent enquiry evidence and the acquittal was no bar, dismissing the employee writ. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowed the State appeal in LPA 565 of 2020, set aside the Single Judge reinstatement order of 23 October 2019, and restored the dismissal of ASI Satish Kumar of CIA-3 Rohtak. The Court found he made complainant [name withheld] believe he could get his brother dropped from the accused in FIR 454 of 2014, and the Vigilance Bureau arrested him with hands turned pink from the marked money. He was dismissed on 29 October 2015 after an enquiry in which the complainant supported the charge, though he later turned hostile in the criminal trial ending in acquittal. The Bench held the dismissal rested on independent enquiry evidence and the acquittal was no bar, dismissing the employee writ.", "court_quote": "It is not disputed that the writ petitioner was arrested by the State Vigilance Bureau team and his hands had turned pink and, thus, he had handled the money.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC Division Bench allowed State LPA and restored dismissal; Single Judge reinstatement set aside.", "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": "2022-05-30", "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": "LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)", "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/63899068/", "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-37" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0168", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Faridabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Faridabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police, Faridabad", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 18431 of 2018 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Jaishree Thakur" ], "judgment_date": "2022-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2011-07-11", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Haryana Police, Faridabad", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2_agy:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police, Faridabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Faridabad man" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/152582255/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed CWP 18431 of 2018 and upheld the dismissal of EASI [name withheld] of Faridabad, trapped by the Vigilance Department on 11 July 2011 accepting eight marked Rs 500 notes from complainant [name withheld]. The Court found a shadow witness watched the exchange, tainted notes were recovered from his pocket, and his hand-wash turned pink, leading DCP HQ Faridabad to dismiss him on 4 July 2013 after a regular enquiry. Though the Special Judge acquitted him in 2016 after the complainant turned hostile, the Court held the departmental proof stood and Rule 16.3 bar did not apply where witnesses were won over. The appeal, revision and mercy petition rejections were left undisturbed.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed CWP 18431 of 2018 and upheld the dismissal of EASI [name withheld] of Faridabad, trapped by the Vigilance Department on 11 July 2011 accepting eight marked Rs 500 notes from complainant [name withheld]. The Court found a shadow witness watched the exchange, tainted notes were recovered from his pocket, and his hand-wash turned pink, leading DCP HQ Faridabad to dismiss him on 4 July 2013 after a regular enquiry. Though the Special Judge acquitted him in 2016 after the complainant turned hostile, the Court held the departmental proof stood and Rule 16.3 bar did not apply where witnesses were won over. The appeal, revision and mercy petition rejections were left undisturbed.", "court_quote": "The departmental authorities took into account the fact that there was recovery of tainted currency notes from the petitioner, shadow witness supported the case and the hands of the petitioner when washed with sodium carbonate solution turned pink which would be a positive affirmation of receipt of bribe.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC judgment verified; trap-proved bribe dismissal upheld despite complainant turning hostile.", "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": "2022-08-18", "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 No. 18431 of 2018 (O&M)", "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/152582255/", "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-37" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0666", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Arshad v. State of Haryana & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Arshad v. State of Haryana & Ors.", "state": "Haryana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Arshad v. State of Haryana & Ors.", "case_number": "CWP No. 20467 of 2025", "citation": "2025:PHHC:089339", "judges": [ "Jagmohan Bansal" ], "judgment_date": "2025-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2023-01-12", "incident_year": 2023, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": "Arshad", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Haryana Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_agy:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_openrouter:unclear(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Arshad", "display": "Arshad (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "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://livelaw-hpnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/cwp20467202521072025finalorder-612503.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-police-officer-absented-from-duty-to-visit-tantarik-upholds-dismissal-says-armed-forces-cant-retain-indiscipline-member-299079", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/08/04/ph-hc-armed-forces-cannot-retain-indisciplined-member/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Haryana Police Constable Arshad, who joined in April 2012, proceeded on one week's leave on 12 January 2023 and never returned, remaining absent for over 300 days; his justification included treatment for black magic by a tantrik. Suspended in September 2023, he boycotted the enquiry, was found guilty ex parte, and was dismissed on 20 June 2024 after a record of 40-plus prior absences, with his appeal and revision failing. The Punjab and Haryana High Court held armed forces cannot retain an indisciplined member, declined to interfere on proportionality for a habitual offender, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Haryana Police Constable Arshad, who joined in April 2012, proceeded on one week's leave on 12 January 2023 and never returned, remaining absent for over 300 days; his justification included treatment for black magic by a tantrik. Suspended in September 2023, he boycotted the enquiry, was found guilty ex parte, and was dismissed on 20 June 2024 after a record of 40-plus prior absences, with his appeal and revision failing. The Punjab and Haryana High Court held armed forces cannot retain an indisciplined member, declined to interfere on proportionality for a habitual offender, and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "The petitioner was concededly part of disciplined force and was bound to strictly follow the rules and regulations. Armed Forces cannot retain any indisciplined member.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC dismissed writ, upheld dismissal of constable absent 300+ days visiting tantrik; habitual offender.", "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": "2025-07-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2025:PHHC:089339", "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://livelaw-hpnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/cwp20467202521072025finalorder-612503.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-police-officer-absented-from-duty-to-visit-tantarik-upholds-dismissal-says-armed-forces-cant-retain-indiscipline-member-299079", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/08/04/ph-hc-armed-forces-cannot-retain-indisciplined-member/", "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-46" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-030", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0047", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1076", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police ex-Constable and others vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police ex-Constable and others vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Sirsa", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sirsa", "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police (Sirsa)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "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" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 323", "IPC 342", "IPC 167", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "ex-Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Haryana 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": "ex-Constable, Haryana Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "ex-Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Haryana 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": "ex-Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "ex-Head Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Haryana 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": "ex-Head Constable, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "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" ], "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", "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": "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." } ], "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://s3.courtbook.in/2025/09/Krishan-Kumar-@-Krishan-Lal-vs.-State-of-Haryana-and-Others.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://courtbook.in/posts/punjab-and-haryana-high-court-clarifies-scope-of-police-dismissals-and-review-powers-under-service-rules", "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-94" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-117-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0165", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "state": "Haryana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police (prisoner escort/guard duty)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 13740 of 2004 (O&M)", "citation": "(2025) 12 P&H CK 1872", "judges": [ "Jagmohan Bansal" ], "judgment_date": "2025-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2003-01-01", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 226", "Constitution Art 227" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Haryana Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": "no", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Haryana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed Constable's writ petition and upheld his dismissal from service for inaction on prisoner-guard duty. Part of a three-man guard holding two undertrial prisoners in safe custody, he possessed a carbine but did not fire when assailants attacked, letting them escape after killing one undertrial and seriously injuring the other; the enquiry officer found him guilty of inaction and he was dismissed on 28 July 2003, with his departmental appeal and revision also failing. The Court held the enquiry procedurally sound with unassailable factual findings in writ jurisdiction, noting also the 22-year delay since dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed Constable's writ petition and upheld his dismissal from service for inaction on prisoner-guard duty. Part of a three-man guard holding two undertrial prisoners in safe custody, he possessed a carbine but did not fire when assailants attacked, letting them escape after killing one undertrial and seriously injuring the other; the enquiry officer found him guilty of inaction and he was dismissed on 28 July 2003, with his departmental appeal and revision also failing. The Court held the enquiry procedurally sound with unassailable factual findings in writ jurisdiction, noting also the 22-year delay since dismissal.", "court_quote": "The petitioner was found guilty for inaction. One prisoner was murdered and another injured who were in the safe custody of petitioner. He did not even try to open gunfire at assailants.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC judgment verified on CourtKutchehry; dismissal for guard-duty inaction upheld, writ 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": "2025-12-04", "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": "(2025) 12 P&H CK 1872", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }