The Supreme Court of India held the State of Punjab liable for the abduction, unlawful detention, and extrajudicial liquidation of seven members of a single family from village Bagga, Majitha. Acting upon a report submitted by the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Court found that DSP led a police party to forcibly abduct the seven victims in October 1991 to avenge his brother's kidnapping by militants, subsequently holding them at Kalanaur and Dera Baba Nanak police stations before liquidating them. The Court condemned senior supervisory officers including SSP Batala and DIG Border Range for sitting on complaints for months. The Supreme Court directed the State of Punjab to pay compensation of Rs 1.50 lakh to the legal representatives of each of the seven victims (totalling Rs 10.5 lakh), expeditiously prosecute the chargesheeted police officers, and initiate disciplinary inquiries against negligent senior officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 10 May 1995 in Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 221 of 1994, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: A.M. Ahmadi, A.S. Anand, S.P. Bharucha, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police; Senior Superintendent of Police, Batala Police; Deputy Inspector General of Police, Border Range, Amritsar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000).
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“A Deputy Superintendent of the Punjab Police and a police party abducted the said 7 persons. The Deputy Superintendent of Police misused the machinery of the police to wreak private vengeance upon the said 7 persons.”
The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,050,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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