# Kharar Man vs \[name withheld\] and Another

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 February 1992 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 211 of 1991, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: G. S. Chahal, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: PB 65 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 211 of 1991 / 1992 ACJ 1011
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: G. S. Chahal, J.), 5 February 1992
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “After hearing the learned counsel, I accept the arguments of Mr. Navkiran Singh that the police has caused disappearance of a Kharar man The State is liable for the action of its officers for such matters.” (at para 3)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 50,000.
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/766802/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1992-0001)

**Record:** CW-1992-0001 (compiler id CWC-0528); case SWENFORC-005
**Title:** Kharar Man vs \[name withheld\] and Another
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: G. S. Chahal
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 211 of 1991 / 1992 ACJ 1011
**Judgment:** 1992-02-05 (1992, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1991-02-01 (1991)
**Place:** Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab (district at time: Rupnagar); city town: Kharar; police station or unit: Police Station Kharar; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** enforced disappearance
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel (2 in record)
**Victims:** Kharar man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice G. S. Chahal) held on the father's habeas petition that Punjab Police caused the disappearance of a Kharar man after arresting him at Kharar on 6 February 1991 and detaining him without justification or recovery. The court rejected the police abscondance account as false and a lame excuse, accepting the Sessions Judge Ropar's inquiry findings of arrest with ulterior motive. It held the State liable for its officers and ordered Rs 50,000 compensation (Rs 10,000 to each parent, Rs 20,000 to the wife, Rs 10,000 in fixed deposit for the minor child) within two months, with 12% interest on default. No individual officer is named in the order's findings and no prosecution was directed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> After hearing the learned counsel, I accept the arguments of Mr. Navkiran Singh that the police has caused disappearance of a Kharar man The State is liable for the action of its officers for such matters.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/766802/); [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/116567/gurmukh-singh-appellant-hash-harbans-lal-and-another-respondent/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** enforced_disappearance
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 3
**display title redacted:** Kharar Man vs \[name withheld\] and Another
**followup history:** {'date': '2026-09-19', 'scope': 'Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass', 'method': 'skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)', 'result': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['officers', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '1992-02-05', '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 50,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '1992 ACJ 1011', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/766802/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/116567/gurmukh-singh-appellant-hash-harbans-lal-and-another-respondent/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** enforced disappearance
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** HC held police caused custodial disappearance; Rs 50,000 to family.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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