{ "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "slug": "jammu-and-kashmir", "count": 15, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/jammu-and-kashmir", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1985-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0333", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Qazigund Man v. State of Jammu & Kashmir and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Qazigund Man v. State of Jammu & Kashmir and Ors.", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Kulgam", "district_at_time": "Anantnag", "city_town": "Qazigund", "police_station_or_unit": "Qazigund Police Station / Pacca Danga Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Qazigund Man v. State of Jammu & Kashmir and Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 1060 of 1985", "citation": "(1985) 4 SCC 677", "judges": [ "O. Chinnappa Reddy", "V. Khalid" ], "judgment_date": "1985-11-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1985, "incident_date": "1985-09-10", "incident_year": 1985, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 22(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Anantnag Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.52, "jev_p_culpable": 0.42, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Anantnag Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Pacca Danga Police Station, Jammu", "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": 0.9, "jev_p_culpable": 0.1, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Pacca Danga Police Station, Jammu" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "unit": "District Police Lines, Anantnag", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no", "redteam:transporter_no_finding" ], "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": 0.85, "jev_p_culpable": 0.18, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector, District Police Lines, Anantnag" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector General of Police", "unit": "Jammu & Kashmir Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.42, "jev_p_culpable": 0.48, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector General of Police, Jammu & Kashmir Police" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Qazigund man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1227505/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court of India held that Member of Legislative Assembly a Qazigund man was arrested deliberately and mala fide by Jammu and Kashmir police at Qazigund on 10 September 1985 to prevent him from attending the Legislative Assembly session. The police unlawfully detained him until 14 September without production before a magistrate, obtaining fraudulent remand orders at magistrates' private residences without his physical presence. The Court held that police functionaries flouted constitutional mandates in gross violation of Articles 21 and 22(2). Exercising its jurisdiction under Article 32, the Supreme Court directed the State of Jammu and Kashmir to pay Rs 50,000 as exemplary compensation to the petitioner. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court of India held that Member of Legislative Assembly a Qazigund man was arrested deliberately and mala fide by Jammu and Kashmir police at Qazigund on 10 September 1985 to prevent him from attending the Legislative Assembly session. The police unlawfully detained him until 14 September without production before a magistrate, obtaining fraudulent remand orders at magistrates' private residences without his physical presence. The Court held that police functionaries flouted constitutional mandates in gross violation of Articles 21 and 22(2). Exercising its jurisdiction under Article 32, the Supreme Court directed the State of Jammu and Kashmir to pay Rs 50,000 as exemplary compensation to the petitioner.", "court_quote": "The police officers, of course, acted deliberately and mala fide and the Magistrate and the Sub Judge aided them either by colluding with them or by their casual attitude.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court held J&K police acted deliberately and mala fide in illegally detaining MLA a Qazigund man, awarding Rs 50,000 exemplary 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": "1985-11-22", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1985) 4 SCC 677", "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/1227505/", "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-16" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0862", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Srinagar Man vs The State and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Srinagar Man vs The State and Others", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Srinagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Srinagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station CIK, Srinagar; 41st Bn BSF", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Srinagar Man vs The State and Others", "case_number": "Misc. Petition No. 197 of 1995 (u/s 491 CrPC)", "citation": "2002 CriLJ 3904", "judges": [ "Syed Bashir-Ud-Din" ], "judgment_date": "2002-05-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1995-07-09", "incident_year": 1995, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "CrPC s.491", "Arms Act 1959 s.25", "J&K PSA 1978 s.8", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "CID, Counter-Insurgency Kashmir (CIK), Srinagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, CID, Counter-Insurgency Kashmir (CIK), Srinagar" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "41st Battalion, Border Security Force", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, 41st Battalion, Border Security Force" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Srinagar man" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1562983/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/993901/mushtaq-ahmed-chacha-appellant-hash-the-state-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Jammu and Kashmir High Court disposed of a 1995 habeas corpus petition concerning a Srinagar man, picked up by the 41st Bn BSF on 09.07.1995 during a Maharaja Gunj crackdown and booked at Police Station CIK, thereafter untraceable. Adopting the Additional District and Sessions Judge (Srinagar) enquiry, the court disbelieved both the BSF escape story and the State's denial of custody. It held the subject disappeared while in the physical custody of respondent No. 3 (SP, CID-CIK), termed him the main and chief culprit, and awarded Rs 1.5 lakh compensation with liberty to recover from the responsible officers. It also ordered registration of a criminal case and time-bound investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jammu and Kashmir High Court disposed of a 1995 habeas corpus petition concerning a Srinagar man, picked up by the 41st Bn BSF on 09.07.1995 during a Maharaja Gunj crackdown and booked at Police Station CIK, thereafter untraceable. Adopting the Additional District and Sessions Judge (Srinagar) enquiry, the court disbelieved both the BSF escape story and the State's denial of custody. It held the subject disappeared while in the physical custody of respondent No. 3 (SP, CID-CIK), termed him the main and chief culprit, and awarded Rs 1.5 lakh compensation with liberty to recover from the responsible officers. It also ordered registration of a criminal case and time-bound investigation.", "court_quote": "The only conclusion to be drawn is that a Srinagar man has disappeared while in physical custody of the respondent No. 3, the main and chief culprit in the matter.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Mirror text verified: Rs 1.5L compensation for custodial disappearance; criminal case 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": "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": "2002-05-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2002 CriLJ 3904", "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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1562983/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/993901/mushtaq-ahmed-chacha-appellant-hash-the-state-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-69" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-41-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0863", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Lethpora, Awantipora Man vs The State", "display_title_redacted": "Lethpora, Awantipora Man vs The State", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Pulwama", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lethpora, Awantipora", "police_station_or_unit": "STF/SOG camp, Lethpora, Awantipora", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Lethpora, Awantipora Man vs The State", "case_number": "O.W.P. No. 263 of 2001", "citation": "2004 CriLJ 1706", "judges": [ "Syed Bashir-Ud-Din" ], "judgment_date": "2003-10-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1997-09-01", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police (Operations)", "unit": "STF/SOG, Awantipora", "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": "Superintendent of Police (Operations), STF/SOG, Awantipora" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "SOG, Lethpora", "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": "Sub-Inspector, SOG, Lethpora" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 602", "unit": "JKAP with SOG Lethpora", "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": "Constable No. 602, JKAP with SOG Lethpora" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "SOG party, Lethpora", "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": "Police personnel, SOG party, Lethpora" }, { "name": null, "rank": "SHO, Soura (then)", "unit": "Soura Police Station", "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": "SHO, Soura (then), Soura Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Lethpora, Awantipora man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/964711/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/992182/abdul-rashid-beigh-appellant-hash-the-state-respondent/", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/901744/abdul-rashid-beigh-vs-state" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court records the following account. A Lethpora, Awantipora man, a cameraman with the University of Kashmir, was picked up from the university campus in September 1997 by an STF/SOG team led by SP (Operations) [name withheld] and never seen again. The State Human Rights Commission, after a full enquiry with cross-examination, held the arrest proved and the police story of escape during a Nowhatta arms-recovery operation fabricated, recommending Rs. 5 lakh interim relief, a criminal case and disciplinary action. The High Court adopted the SHRC findings, held the case a custodial disappearance in breach of Article 21, and awarded Rs. 2 lakh public-law compensation (unless the State paid the SHRC-recommended Rs. 5 lakh), leaving recovery from the responsible officers to the State. It also directed registration of a criminal case against the erring officials, investigation by an SSP-rank officer within four months, and simultaneous disciplinary proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Lethpora, Awantipora man, a cameraman with the University of Kashmir, was picked up from the university campus in September 1997 by an STF/SOG team led by SP (Operations) [name withheld] and never seen again. The State Human Rights Commission, after a full enquiry with cross-examination, held the arrest proved and the police story of escape during a Nowhatta arms-recovery operation fabricated, recommending Rs. 5 lakh interim relief, a criminal case and disciplinary action. The High Court adopted the SHRC findings, held the case a custodial disappearance in breach of Article 21, and awarded Rs. 2 lakh public-law compensation (unless the State paid the SHRC-recommended Rs. 5 lakh), leaving recovery from the responsible officers to the State. It also directed registration of a criminal case against the erring officials, investigation by an SSP-rank officer within four months, and simultaneous disciplinary proceedings.", "court_quote": "The police version is wholly unacceptable and one tailored to serve interests of the police personnel involved in the offence of custodial disappearance of the subject.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial disappearance proved; compensation plus criminal/disciplinary directions.", "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": "2003-10-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2004 CriLJ 1706", "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/964711/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/992182/abdul-rashid-beigh-appellant-hash-the-state-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/901744/abdul-rashid-beigh-vs-state", "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-70" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-41-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0069", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jammu Man and Another v. State of Punjab and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jammu Man and Another v. State of Punjab and Others", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Jammu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jammu", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Gangyal, Jammu", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jammu Man and Another v. State of Punjab and Others", "case_number": "CRWP No. 883 of 2003", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Jora Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2011-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2003-06-21", "incident_year": 2003, "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 344", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Trainee SHO", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Gangyal, Jammu", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt56:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "unclear", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.25, "jev_p_culpable": 0.8, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Trainee SHO, Police Station Gangyal, Jammu" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 26, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu man, age 26", "name": null }, { "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu boy, age 15", "name": null }, { "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu boy, age 15", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu man", "name": null }, { "age": 20, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu man, age 20", "name": null }, { "age": 17, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu boy, age 17", "name": null }, { "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu boy, age 15", "name": null }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jammu man", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 26, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 15-year-old boy" }, { "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 15-year-old boy" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": 20, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a man" }, { "age": 17, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 17-year-old boy" }, { "age": 15, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 15-year-old boy" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": null } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 8, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80798392/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court disposed of a habeas corpus petition over eight Punjab youths picked up by a J&K police party led by DSP as suspected Kala Kachha gang members, holding a man (26) was kept confined illegally and tortured at PS Gangyal, Jammu. Arrested from Amritsar on 21 June 2003 without production before any Magistrate, he died on 3 July 2003 with 41 injuries including electric-shock marks; death was by haemorrhage and shock. The Court rejected the police version of release and death by illness, noting absent arrest memos and afterthought roznamcha entries, and awarded Rs 5 lakh against the State of J&K, recoverable from the DSP. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court disposed of a habeas corpus petition over eight Punjab youths picked up by a J&K police party led by DSP as suspected Kala Kachha gang members, holding Mohan Lal (26) was kept confined illegally and tortured at PS Gangyal, Jammu. Arrested from Amritsar on 21 June 2003 without production before any Magistrate, he died on 3 July 2003 with 41 injuries including electric-shock marks; death was by haemorrhage and shock. The Court rejected the police version of release and death by illness, noting absent arrest memos and afterthought roznamcha entries, and awarded Rs 5 lakh against the State of J&K, recoverable from the DSP.", "court_quote": "Keeping in view 41 injuries on the person of deceased and the way deceased was tortured in police custody, State of Jammu and Kashmir, is directed to pay Rs. 5 lacs as compensation to the wife and the children of deceased with liberty to recover Rs. 5 lacs from Sh. [name withheld], DSP, Trainee SHO, Police Station Gangyal- respondent No. 7.", "court_quote_para": "n/a (operative para, judgment p.32; paras unnumbered)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "41-injury custodial torture-death at PS Gangyal; Rs 5L against J&K recoverable from DSP.", "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": "2011-05-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "CRWP No. 883 of 2003", "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/80798392/", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-015", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0043", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1310", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ganderbal Man vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ganderbal Man vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Ganderbal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ganderbal", "police_station_or_unit": "Special Operations Group, Ganderbal", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "bench": "Srinagar", "case_title": "Ganderbal Man vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "OWP No. 352 of 2007", "citation": "(2011) 4 JKJ 327", "judges": [ "Mansoor Ahmad Mir" ], "judgment_date": "2011-10-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "2002-01-01", "incident_year": 2002, "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": [ "J&K SRO 43" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Special Operations Group, Ganderbal", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Special Operations Group, Ganderbal" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Special Police Officer", "unit": "Special Operations Group, Ganderbal", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Special Police Officer, Special Operations Group, Ganderbal" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ganderbal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/195667152/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/990593/parweeza-begum-appellant-hash-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "A Ganderbal man was arrested by SOG personnel at Ganderbal and killed in custody, his body handed to relatives the next day; local police refused to register an FIR until the High Court ordered it (FIR No. 107/2002). The court recorded the State's admission that its own investigation had established the involvement of DySP [name withheld] and SPO [name withheld] in the death, and that the criminal case was later closed as untraced after both officers died. The court held the family had lost its sole bread earner, awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation saddled on the State Government payable within three months, and directed the State to consider the petitioner for compassionate appointment under SRO 43 with age relaxation. It clarified the award would not bar the family from seeking further compensation through appropriate remedy. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Ganderbal man was arrested by SOG personnel at Ganderbal and killed in custody, his body handed to relatives the next day; local police refused to register an FIR until the High Court ordered it (FIR No. 107/2002). The court recorded the State's admission that its own investigation had established the involvement of DySP [name withheld] and SPO [name withheld] in the death, and that the criminal case was later closed as untraced after both officers died. The court held the family had lost its sole bread earner, awarded Rs 3 lakh compensation saddled on the State Government payable within three months, and directed the State to consider the petitioner for compassionate appointment under SRO 43 with age relaxation. It clarified the award would not bar the family from seeking further compensation through appropriate remedy.", "court_quote": "Admittedly in terms of the report of Investigating Officer, respondents have admitted that investigation was conducted and it was established during such investigation that two Police Officers, [name withheld] and [name withheld] were involved in the death of the deceased and thus have deprived the sole bread earner to the writ petitioner and his family.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC recorded State's admission that two police officers killed the detainee in custody; Rs 3 lakh compensation 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": "2011-10-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2011) 4 JKJ 327", "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/195667152/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/990593/parweeza-begum-appellant-hash-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-126" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-94-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0070", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0595" ], "display_title": "Katra Woman and Others v. Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Katra Woman and Others v. Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Others", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Reasi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Katra", "police_station_or_unit": "Jammu and Kashmir Police (Katra dispersal force)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Katra Woman and Others v. Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 118 of 2007", "citation": "2016 SCC OnLine SC 814", "judges": [ "A. K. Sikri", "R. K. Agrawal" ], "judgment_date": "2016-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2007-08-07", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Protest policing", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": true, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Katra woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 400000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/139222628/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/08/13/unfortunate-that-the-use-of-force-by-police-to-control-hooliganism-and-vandalism-by-the-protestors-results-in-public-anger-against-the-police/", "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/right-peaceful-protest-fundamental-right-sc", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/688570/anita-thakur-ors-appellant-hash-govt-of-jk-ors-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court held Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel misused power and violated the fundamental rights of three petitioners during the 7 August 2007 dispersal near Katra of about 2,000 Jammu migrant protesters marching to Delhi. The Court found initial force justified as the agitation turned violent, but held police continued the lathi charge beyond limits and kept beating all three petitioners even after overpowering and virtually apprehending them. Finding the petitioners partly to blame, the Court declined criminal action and a special investigation, granting only compensation of Rs 2 lakh to petitioner1 and Rs 1 lakh each to petitioner2 and 3. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel misused power and violated the fundamental rights of three petitioners during the 7 August 2007 dispersal near Katra of about 2,000 Jammu migrant protesters marching to Delhi. The Court found initial force justified as the agitation turned violent, but held police continued the lathi charge beyond limits and kept beating all three petitioners even after overpowering and virtually apprehending them. Finding the petitioners partly to blame, the Court declined criminal action and a special investigation, granting only compensation of Rs 2 lakh to petitioner1 and Rs 1 lakh each to petitioner2 and 3.", "court_quote": "On the other hand, even the police personnel continued the use of force beyond limits after they had controlled the mob. In the process, they continued their lathi charge. They continued to beat up all the three petitioners even after overpowering them.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Excessive post-control lathi charge held proved; Rs 4L total compensation; no criminal action.", "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": "Protest policing", "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": "2016-08-12", "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 400,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2016 SCC OnLine SC 814", "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/139222628/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/08/13/unfortunate-that-the-use-of-force-by-police-to-control-hooliganism-and-vandalism-by-the-protestors-results-in-public-anger-against-the-police/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/right-peaceful-protest-fundamental-right-sc", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/688570/anita-thakur-ors-appellant-hash-govt-of-jk-ors-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-32", "chunk-36" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0045", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1197", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable/GD v. Union of India & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable/GD v. Union of India & Ors.", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Budgam", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Waripora", "police_station_or_unit": "D Company, 176 Bn CRPF, Waripora (Budgam)", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable/GD v. Union of India & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(C) 1883/2010", "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Del) 549", "judges": [ "Suresh Kumar Kait", "Neena Bansal Krishna" ], "judgment_date": "2023-07-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2008-12-07", "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": [ "CRPF Act 1949 s.11(1)", "CRPF Rules 1955 r.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable/GD", "unit": "D Company, 176 Battalion, CRPF, Waripora", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable/GD, D Company, 176 Battalion, CRPF, Waripora" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Waripora 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/judgementphp-2-479503.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-dismissal-crpf-constable-consumption-of-liquor-on-duty-231857" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. CRPF Constable/GD [name withheld] of D Company, 176 Battalion at Waripora (Budgam), while undergoing line-custody punishment, unauthorisedly purchased and consumed an overdose of liquor on 07.12.2008, entered the subordinate officers' mess drunk, seized a loaded carbine and pointed it at SI/GD a Waripora resident The enquiry officer found him a habitual offender frequently caught drunk on duty, and the Commandant dismissed him from service on 11.02.2009, affirmed on appeal and revision. The Delhi High Court held rejection of his casual leave gave him no licence to consume liquor and rebel against the competent authority, found the dismissal just and proper, and dismissed his writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "CRPF Constable/GD [name withheld] of D Company, 176 Battalion at Waripora (Budgam), while undergoing line-custody punishment, unauthorisedly purchased and consumed an overdose of liquor on 07.12.2008, entered the subordinate officers' mess drunk, seized a loaded carbine and pointed it at SI/GD a Waripora resident The enquiry officer found him a habitual offender frequently caught drunk on duty, and the Commandant dismissed him from service on 11.02.2009, affirmed on appeal and revision. The Delhi High Court held rejection of his casual leave gave him no licence to consume liquor and rebel against the competent authority, found the dismissal just and proper, and dismissed his writ petition.", "court_quote": "The misconduct committed by the petitioner leaves no scope for leniency towards him.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "CRPF constable's dismissal for drunkenness on duty and pointing loaded carbine at superior 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": "2023-07-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Del) 549", "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/judgementphp-2-479503.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-dismissal-crpf-constable-consumption-of-liquor-on-duty-231857", "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-110" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-44-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0057", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari Man And Another vs State Of J&K And Others", "display_title_redacted": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari Man And Another vs State Of J&K And Others", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Jammu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Phallian Mandal (Makwal), Satwari", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Phallian Mandal (Makwal), Police Station Satwari", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh", "bench": "Jammu", "case_title": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari Man And Another vs State Of J&K And Others", "case_number": "OWP No. 791/2009 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajnesh Oswal" ], "judgment_date": "2023-08-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2007-02-17", "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": [ "RPC 302", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "In-charge and personnel on duty", "unit": "Police Post Phallian Mandal (Makwal), PS Satwari", "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": "In-charge and personnel on duty, Police Post Phallian Mandal (Makwal), PS Satwari" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 18, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Phallian Mandal, Satwari man, age 18" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 800000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106453139/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Jammu awarded compensation to the parents of 18-year-old a Phallian Mandal, Satwari man, picked up from home on February 17, 2007 by Police Post Phallian Mandal staff and found unconscious with visible injury marks at the post within about 90 minutes, later declared dead at hospital. A magisterial enquiry by the Additional District Development Commissioner Jammu held it a custodial death prima facie against the post's personnel; the Government accepted the report, paid Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia and registered FIR No. 201/2007 under Section 302 RPC at PS Satwari. Holding the State estopped from denying custodial death, the Court computed Rs. 9,00,000 total on Motor Vehicles Act principles and, adjusting the ex gratia already paid, directed payment of Rs. 8,00,000 with 6% interest from filing of the writ petition within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Jammu awarded compensation to the parents of 18-year-old a Phallian Mandal, Satwari man, picked up from home on February 17, 2007 by Police Post Phallian Mandal staff and found unconscious with visible injury marks at the post within about 90 minutes, later declared dead at hospital. A magisterial enquiry by the Additional District Development Commissioner Jammu held it a custodial death prima facie against the post's personnel; the Government accepted the report, paid Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia and registered FIR No. 201/2007 under Section 302 RPC at PS Satwari. Holding the State estopped from denying custodial death, the Court computed Rs. 9,00,000 total on Motor Vehicles Act principles and, adjusting the ex gratia already paid, directed payment of Rs. 8,00,000 with 6% interest from filing of the writ petition within two months.", "court_quote": "Once the Government has accepted the death as 'custodial death' and has paid sum of Rs. 1 lac as ex-gratia, the respondents are estopped from denying the death of the victim in police custody.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "J&K HC (Jammu) held 18-year-old a Phallian Mandal, Satwari man died in police custody at PP Phallian Mandal and awarded Rs. 8 lakh compensation (plus Rs. 1 lakh ex gratia already paid).", "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": "2023-08-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 800,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "OWP No. 791/2009 (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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106453139/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0643", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "J&K Police Constable v. State of Jammu and Kashmir", "display_title_redacted": "J&K Police Constable v. State of Jammu and Kashmir", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Udhampur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh", "bench": "Jammu", "case_title": "J&K Police Constable v. State of Jammu and Kashmir", "case_number": "CRA No. 17 of 2010", "citation": "2025 LiveLaw (JKL) 14", "judges": [ "Sanjeev Kumar", "Puneet Gupta" ], "judgment_date": "2024-12-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2001-09-29", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "POTA 2002 s.3(4)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "J&K Police, District Udhampur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, J&K Police, District Udhampur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 3, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113743568/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/doc-20250129-wa0005-584258.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-confession-must-be-of-sterling-value-corroborated-court-upholds-conviction-under-pota-282527" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. Constable of District Udhampur police absented without authorisation from 29 September to 11 November 2001; on rejoining, police seized militants' photographs and film negatives from him, and investigation established he was harbouring Mahore-area militants to spread militancy, culminating in a confessional statement before the SSP Poonch under s.32 POTA. The POTA Designated Court (Jammu) convicted him under s.3(4) POTA in July 2010 with 3 years imprisonment plus Rs.1,000 fine. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Puneet Gupta dismissed his appeal, holding a s.32 POTA confession must be of sterling value and corroborated as a matter of prudence, upheld the conviction and sentence, cancelled his bail bonds, and ordered surrender within ten days.", "summary_verified": "Constable of District Udhampur police absented without authorisation from 29 September to 11 November 2001; on rejoining, police seized militants' photographs and film negatives from him, and investigation established he was harbouring Mahore-area militants to spread militancy, culminating in a confessional statement before the SSP Poonch under s.32 POTA. The POTA Designated Court (Jammu) convicted him under s.3(4) POTA in July 2010 with 3 years imprisonment plus Rs.1,000 fine. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Puneet Gupta dismissed his appeal, holding a s.32 POTA confession must be of sterling value and corroborated as a matter of prudence, upheld the conviction and sentence, cancelled his bail bonds, and ordered surrender within ten days.", "court_quote": "For the foregoing reasons, we dismiss the appeal and uphold the judgment of conviction and the order of sentence passed by the trial Court.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "J&K HC dismissed POTA appeal, upholding constable's 3-year conviction for harbouring militants; text verified.", "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 Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2025 LiveLaw (JKL) 14", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2024-12-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2025 LiveLaw (JKL) 14", "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/113743568/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/doc-20250129-wa0005-584258.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-confession-must-be-of-sterling-value-corroborated-court-upholds-conviction-under-pota-282527", "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-41" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0759", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0056" ], "display_title": "Kupwara Man vs Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Kupwara Man vs Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Kupwara", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kupwara", "police_station_or_unit": "Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC), Kupwara / SSP Office Kupwara", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kupwara Man vs Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. arising out of SLP (Crl.) Nos. 13751-13752 of 2023", "citation": "2025 INSC 876; 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 732; 2025 SCC OnLine SC 1491", "judges": [ "Vikram Nath", "Sandeep Mehta" ], "judgment_date": "2025-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2023-02-20", "incident_year": 2023, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "IPC 309" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Kupwara", "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, Kupwara" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Belt No. 108/KP)", "unit": "In-charge, Police Post Tad, Karnah", "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": "Sub-Inspector (Belt No. 108/KP), In-charge, Police Post Tad, Karnah" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Various", "unit": "Joint Interrogation Centre, Kupwara", "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": "Various, Joint Interrogation Centre, Kupwara" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kupwara man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 5000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/khursheed-ahmad-chohan-v-union-territory-of-jammu-and-kashmirwatermark-1730699.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-rs-50-lakh-compensation-to-jk-police-officer-who-suffered-custodial-torture-directs-cbi-probe-298229", "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/khursheed-ahmad-chohan-v-union-territory-of-jammu-and-kashmir-2025-insc-876-brutal-custodial-torture-on-police-constable-1585675", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173545196/", "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/sc-directs-cbi-probe-into-custodial-torture-castration-of-jk-police-constable-awards-rs-50-lakh-compensation-1513710", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/07/22/supreme-court-awards-50lakh-compensation-police-constable-custodial-torture-victim-legal-news/", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/687e79ca00bbbc60eb40b4c6", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-cbi-probe-into-custodial-torture-of-jk-constable", "https://lawstreet.co/judiciary/sc-orders-rs-50-lakh-compensation-to-j-and-k-constable-over-custodial-torture-directs-cbi-probe" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court allowed the appeals of J&K police constable, posted at District Police Headquarters Baramulla, who was illegally detained at the Joint Interrogation Centre, Kupwara from February 20 to 26, 2023 and subjected to custodial torture including amputation of his testicles, pepper sprinkled on his genitalia and electric shocks, leaving him comatose and surgically castrated. Holding the Article 21 violation evident and egregious as established through medical records, the Court quashed as mala fide and fabricated the counter-FIR No. 32 of 2023 under Section 309 IPC lodged against the victim to shield guilty officers. It directed the CBI to register an RC within 7 days, arrest responsible officials within one month, complete investigation in 90 days and probe systemic issues at JIC Kupwara, set aside the High Court order dated September 18, 2023, and ordered the Union Territory to pay Rs. 50,00,000 interim compensation recoverable from guilty officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court allowed the appeals of J&K police constable, posted at District Police Headquarters Baramulla, who was illegally detained at the Joint Interrogation Centre, Kupwara from February 20 to 26, 2023 and subjected to custodial torture including amputation of his testicles, pepper sprinkled on his genitalia and electric shocks, leaving him comatose and surgically castrated. Holding the Article 21 violation evident and egregious as established through medical records, the Court quashed as mala fide and fabricated the counter-FIR No. 32 of 2023 under Section 309 IPC lodged against the victim to shield guilty officers. It directed the CBI to register an RC within 7 days, arrest responsible officials within one month, complete investigation in 90 days and probe systemic issues at JIC Kupwara, set aside the High Court order dated September 18, 2023, and ordered the Union Territory to pay Rs. 50,00,000 interim compensation recoverable from guilty officials.", "court_quote": "The injuries caused to the appellant during his illegal detention, particularly the complete mutilation of his genitalia, use of pepper/chilly powder and electric shocks on his genitalia, are grave reminders of the inhuman torture meted out to the appellant while detaining him illegally.", "court_quote_para": "36", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court held J&K constable suffered brutal custodial torture at JIC Kupwara, awarded Rs. 50 lakh interim compensation and ordered CBI probe.", "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": "2025-07-21", "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 5,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2025 INSC 876; 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 732; 2025 SCC OnLine SC 1491", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/khursheed-ahmad-chohan-v-union-territory-of-jammu-and-kashmirwatermark-1730699.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-rs-50-lakh-compensation-to-jk-police-officer-who-suffered-custodial-torture-directs-cbi-probe-298229", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/khursheed-ahmad-chohan-v-union-territory-of-jammu-and-kashmir-2025-insc-876-brutal-custodial-torture-on-police-constable-1585675", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173545196/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/sc-directs-cbi-probe-into-custodial-torture-castration-of-jk-police-constable-awards-rs-50-lakh-compensation-1513710", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/07/22/supreme-court-awards-50lakh-compensation-police-constable-custodial-torture-victim-legal-news/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/687e79ca00bbbc60eb40b4c6", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-cbi-probe-into-custodial-torture-of-jk-constable", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawstreet.co/judiciary/sc-orders-rs-50-lakh-compensation-to-j-and-k-constable-over-custodial-torture-directs-cbi-probe", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02", "chunk-15", "chunk-37", "chunk-48", "chunk-r01", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-031", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0061", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of J&K v. 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Kupwara Police Station House Officer and others", "case_number": "CRAA No. 12 of 2011", "citation": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:242", "judges": [ "Sanjeev Kumar", "Sanjay Parihar" ], "judgment_date": "2025-08-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2003-05-12", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "RPC 302", "RPC 120-B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Sogam Police Station, Kupwara", "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": "Station House Officer, Sogam Police Station, Kupwara" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Kupwara resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Kupwara resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/state-of-jk-v-gh-rasool-wani-anr-2075518.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/jk-and-ladakh-high-court-convicts-ex-sho-ghulam-rasool-for-aiding-2003-kupwara-fidayeen-attack-1518136", "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3610190-ex-police-officer-sentenced-for-fidayeen-attack-justice-served-decades-later" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. On 12 May 2003, a Jaish-e-Mohammed fidayeen attacked police and CRPF personnel near the SBI branch in Kupwara town, killing two CRPF men and injuring six. Investigation showed that then-SHO [name withheld] [name withheld] had ferried the attacker from Sogam to Kupwara in an official Tata 407 police vehicle and planted him at the attack site. The Sessions Judge, Kupwara, acquitted Wani in January 2011. The High Court held the acquittal perverse, found the SHO proved as a conspirator in the murder, sentenced him to life imprisonment under Sections 302 read with 120-B RPC, and directed surrender before the trial court, while confirming the co-accused's acquittal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 12 May 2003, a Jaish-e-Mohammed fidayeen attacked police and CRPF personnel near the SBI branch in Kupwara town, killing two CRPF men and injuring six. Investigation showed that then-SHO [name withheld] [name withheld] had ferried the attacker from Sogam to Kupwara in an official Tata 407 police vehicle and planted him at the attack site. The Sessions Judge, Kupwara, acquitted Wani in January 2011. The High Court held the acquittal perverse, found the SHO proved as a conspirator in the murder, sentenced him to life imprisonment under Sections 302 read with 120-B RPC, and directed surrender before the trial court, while confirming the co-accused's acquittal.", "court_quote": "Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed under Section 302 RPC. He shall surrender to custody of the trial Court and the latter shall draw formal order of sentence and commit him to custody, so as to undergo the sentence of imprisonment of life.", "court_quote_para": "38", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "J&K HC reversed SHO's acquittal and convicted him of murder-conspiracy for aiding 2003 fidayeen attack; life term.", "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" } ], 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and Others", "display_title_redacted": "State of J&K vs Sogam Police Station House Officer (then) and Others", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Kupwara", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sogam", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sogam, Kupwara", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh", "bench": "Srinagar", "case_title": "State of J&K vs Sogam Police Station House Officer (then) and Others", "case_number": "CRAA No. 12/2011", "citation": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:242", "judges": [ "Sanjeev Kumar", "Sanjay Parihar" ], "judgment_date": "2025-08-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2003-05-12", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "RPC 120B", "RPC 302", "RPC 109" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer (then)", "unit": "Police Station Sogam, Kupwara", "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": "Station House Officer (then), Police Station Sogam, Kupwara" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Sogam man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Sogam man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 8, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/state-of-jk-vs-mohd-ibrahim-1742800.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/jammu-ladakh-high-court/state-of-jk-v-mohd-ibrahim-2025jklhc242-jammu-kashmir-ladakh-high-court-kupwara-sho-terror-conspiracy-case-1590849", "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/jk-and-ladakh-high-court-convicts-ex-sho-ghulam-rasool-for-aiding-2003-kupwara-fidayeen-attack-1518136" ], "summary": "The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Srinagar (Sanjay Parihar, J.; Sanjeev Kumar, J. concurring) partly allowed the State's acquittal appeal against the 2011 Sessions Judge Kupwara judgment in FIR No. 83/2003. Then-SHO [name withheld]. [name withheld] had ferried Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen Mohd. Ibrahim in the official police vehicle from Sogam to Kupwara on 12 May 2003, misrepresenting him as an SOG operative; the militant, wearing a stolen constable's uniform, attacked a police/CRPF convoy near SBI Kupwara, killing two CRPF jawans of 113 Bn and injuring six personnel before being neutralised. Holding the trial court's acquittal perverse in ignoring clinching evidence, the High Court convicted Wani of murder by conspiracy and sentenced him to imprisonment for life, directing surrender to the trial court; the co-accused [name withheld]'s acquittal was upheld. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Srinagar (Sanjay Parihar, J.; Sanjeev Kumar, J. concurring) partly allowed the State's acquittal appeal against the 2011 Sessions Judge Kupwara judgment in FIR No. 83/2003. Then-SHO [name withheld]. [name withheld] had ferried Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen Mohd. Ibrahim in the official police vehicle from Sogam to Kupwara on 12 May 2003, misrepresenting him as an SOG operative; the militant, wearing a stolen constable's uniform, attacked a police/CRPF convoy near SBI Kupwara, killing two CRPF jawans of 113 Bn and injuring six personnel before being neutralised. Holding the trial court's acquittal perverse in ignoring clinching evidence, the High Court convicted Wani of murder by conspiracy and sentenced him to imprisonment for life, directing surrender to the trial court; the co-accused [name withheld]'s acquittal was upheld.", "court_quote": "Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed under Section 302 RPC.", "court_quote_para": "38", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: ex-SHO convicted of murder-conspiracy, life imprisonment on State appeal.", "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": "2025-08-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:242", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/state-of-jk-vs-mohd-ibrahim-1742800.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/jammu-ladakh-high-court/state-of-jk-v-mohd-ibrahim-2025jklhc242-jammu-kashmir-ladakh-high-court-kupwara-sho-terror-conspiracy-case-1590849", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/jk-and-ladakh-high-court-convicts-ex-sho-ghulam-rasool-for-aiding-2003-kupwara-fidayeen-attack-1518136", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-15", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0642", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Kulgam", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Adjin", "police_station_or_unit": "Minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh", "bench": "Srinagar", "case_title": "UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]", "case_number": "LPA No. 27 of 2022", "citation": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:356-DB", "judges": [ "Sanjeev Kumar", "Sanjay Parihar" ], "judgment_date": "2025-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2016-05-07", "incident_year": 2016, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "J&K Police, minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.15, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, J&K Police, minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam" } ], "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/doc-20251225-wa0001-642846.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/jammu-ladakh-high-court/2025jkhcsgr356-ut-of-j-k-v-bashir-ahmad-mir-1602450", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-surrendering-weapons-without-firing-a-single-round-is-cowardice-brings-moral-disgrace-to-police-force-restores-dismissal-of-constable-for-failing-to-repel-militant-attack-514461" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. Constable (J&K Police, appointed 1992), posted with the constabulary guard at the minority picket at Adjin, Kulgam, failed to fire a single round when militants attacked on the night of 7/8 May 2016, surrendering service weapons to them. After inquiry, SP Kulgam dismissed him on 13 October 2016. A Single Judge quashed the dismissal in October 2019 on grounds including inquiry by an allegedly incompetent officer. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar allowed the UT's appeal, holding the inquiry was by a competent authority with natural justice scrupulously followed, that surrender without firing is cowardice bringing moral disgrace, and that dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate, restoring the dismissal.", "summary_verified": "Constable (J&K Police, appointed 1992), posted with the constabulary guard at the minority picket at Adjin, Kulgam, failed to fire a single round when militants attacked on the night of 7/8 May 2016, surrendering service weapons to them. After inquiry, SP Kulgam dismissed him on 13 October 2016. A Single Judge quashed the dismissal in October 2019 on grounds including inquiry by an allegedly incompetent officer. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar allowed the UT's appeal, holding the inquiry was by a competent authority with natural justice scrupulously followed, that surrender without firing is cowardice bringing moral disgrace, and that dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate, restoring the dismissal.", "court_quote": "The failure of the Police Guards on duty to retaliate an attack by the militants and surrendering their weapons without firing a single round is a serious act of cowardice bringing moral disgrace to the police force as a whole.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "J&K HC allowed State appeal, restoring dismissal of constable who surrendered weapons; judgment verified.", "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": "2025-12-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:356-DB", "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/doc-20251225-wa0001-642846.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/jammu-ladakh-high-court/2025jkhcsgr356-ut-of-j-k-v-bashir-ahmad-mir-1602450", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-surrendering-weapons-without-firing-a-single-round-is-cowardice-brings-moral-disgrace-to-police-force-restores-dismissal-of-constable-for-failing-to-repel-militant-attack-514461", "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-41" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0063", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0956" ], "display_title": "State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others v. J&K Police Driver Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others v. J&K Police Driver Constable", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Srinagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Srinagar", "police_station_or_unit": "J&K Police Department", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh", "bench": "Srinagar", "case_title": "State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others v. J&K Police Driver Constable", "case_number": "LPAW No. 268/2011", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 237", "judges": [ "Sanjeev Kumar", "Sanjay Parihar" ], "judgment_date": "2026-05-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2004-01-01", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "J&K Constitution s.126(2)(c)", "Constitution Art 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Driver Constable", "unit": "J&K Police Department", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Driver Constable, J&K Police Department" } ], "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://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2026-06-02/sgtzo0rd/State_of_JK_Vs_Ghulam_Mohd_Tantray.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-enemy-infiltrated-government-through-employees-to-disintegrate-nation-jk-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-constable-who-sheltered-pakistani-militant-possessed-grenades-536508", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jammu-kashmir-high-court-restores-dismissal-of-policeman-accused-of-militant-links" ], "summary": "A Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh allowed the administration's appeal and restored the 2007 dismissal of Driver Constable, setting aside the Single Judge's 2011 order. The constable had been arrested in 2004 for contact with a Pakistani militant and arranging his hideout, with arms and grenades recovered, and was dismissed after the Cabinet was satisfied that holding an enquiry would endanger witnesses. The Court held that abundant contemporaneous material justified dispensing with the enquiry under Section 126(2)(c) of the then J&K Constitution and that the writ court had acted in a slipshod manner. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh allowed the administration's appeal and restored the 2007 dismissal of Driver Constable, setting aside the Single Judge's 2011 order. The constable had been arrested in 2004 for contact with a Pakistani militant and arranging his hideout, with arms and grenades recovered, and was dismissed after the Cabinet was satisfied that holding an enquiry would endanger witnesses. The Court held that abundant contemporaneous material justified dispensing with the enquiry under Section 126(2)(c) of the then J&K Constitution and that the writ court had acted in a slipshod manner.", "court_quote": "The respondent was one such pawn in the hands of the enemy who had been persuaded to act not only against his employer but also against his country for extraneous reasons and considerations. Not only had he established contacts with a Pakistani militant, but he had also arranged a hideout for him.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Militant-link dismissal restored by DB; operative order verified from judgment PDF.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-05-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 237", "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" ] }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Duplicate record CW-2026-0050 (same court, LPAW No. 268/2011, judgment of 30 May 2026) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2026-06-02/sgtzo0rd/State_of_JK_Vs_Ghulam_Mohd_Tantray.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-enemy-infiltrated-government-through-employees-to-disintegrate-nation-jk-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-constable-who-sheltered-pakistani-militant-possessed-grenades-536508", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jammu-kashmir-high-court-restores-dismissal-of-policeman-accused-of-militant-links", "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-27" ], "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0054", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1315", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of J&K and Others vs J&K Armed Police Head Constable/Cashier", "display_title_redacted": "State of J&K and Others vs J&K Armed Police Head Constable/Cashier", "state": "Jammu and Kashmir", "district": "Jammu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jammu", "police_station_or_unit": "8th Battalion, J&K Armed Police", "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of J&K and Others vs J&K Armed Police Head Constable/Cashier", "case_number": "LPAW No. 93 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjeev Kumar", "Mohd. Yousuf Wani" ], "judgment_date": "2026-08-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2006-02-14", "incident_year": 2006, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "RPC 409", "J&K Police Rules Rule 359" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable/Cashier", "unit": "8th Battalion, J&K Armed Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable/Cashier, 8th Battalion, J&K Armed 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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/26/state-of-jk-vs-abdul-sattar-lone-696416.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/retrospective-effect-of-dismissal-order-is-severable-jkl-high-court-restores-constables-dismissal-in-90-lakh-embezzlement-case-547509" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. Head Constable/[name withheld] of the 8th Battalion, J&K Armed Police was arrested in an embezzlement case (FIR No. 46/2005) and, after release on bail in February 2006, never reported back despite repeated notices, leading to dismissal in May 2007 with retrospective effect. A Single Judge had set the dismissal aside and ordered reinstatement with liberty for a fresh inquiry. The Division Bench held the unauthorised-absence charge stood proved and undefended, so no breach of Rule 359 or natural justice arose, but agreed dismissal could not operate retrospectively. Applying R. Jeevaratnam, it severed the retrospective part, sustained the dismissal from 11 May 2007, set aside the writ-court judgment and allowed the State appeal.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable/[name withheld] of the 8th Battalion, J&K Armed Police was arrested in an embezzlement case (FIR No. 46/2005) and, after release on bail in February 2006, never reported back despite repeated notices, leading to dismissal in May 2007 with retrospective effect. A Single Judge had set the dismissal aside and ordered reinstatement with liberty for a fresh inquiry. The Division Bench held the unauthorised-absence charge stood proved and undefended, so no breach of Rule 359 or natural justice arose, but agreed dismissal could not operate retrospectively. Applying R. Jeevaratnam, it severed the retrospective part, sustained the dismissal from 11 May 2007, set aside the writ-court judgment and allowed the State appeal.", "court_quote": "For the foregoing reasons, we uphold the order of dismissal impugned in the writ petition as valid from the date of the order, i.e., 11.05.2007.", "court_quote_para": "27", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Head Constable's dismissal for prolonged unauthorised absence upheld from date of order; retrospective part severed.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-08-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "LPAW No. 93 of 2012", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/26/state-of-jk-vs-abdul-sattar-lone-696416.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/retrospective-effect-of-dismissal-order-is-severable-jkl-high-court-restores-constables-dismissal-in-90-lakh-embezzlement-case-547509", "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-126" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-99-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }