# Majitha Man vs State of Punjab and Others

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## Report card

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).

- Register number: PB 02 CW 0003
- Case reference: Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 221 of 1994 / AIR 1995 SC 1949
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: A.M. Ahmadi, A.S. Anand, S.P. Bharucha, JJ.), 10 May 1995
- Officer(s) at the material time: Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police; Senior Superintendent of Police, Batala Police; Deputy Inspector General of Police, Border Range, Amritsar
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000).
- 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/206146/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1995-0002)

**Record:** CW-1995-0002 (compiler id CWC-0307); case SWENFORC-003
**Title:** Majitha Man vs State of Punjab and Others
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: A.M. Ahmadi; A.S. Anand; S.P. Bharucha
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 221 of 1994 / AIR 1995 SC 1949
**Judgment:** 1995-05-10 (1995, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1991-10-29 (1991)
**Place:** Amritsar, Punjab; city town: Majitha; police station or unit: Punjab Police (Majitha / Kalanaur / Dera Baba Nanak); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** enforced disappearance
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police; Senior Superintendent of Police, Batala Police; Deputy Inspector General of Police, Border Range, Amritsar (3 in record)
**Victims:** Majitha man; Majitha man; Majitha man; Majitha man; Majitha man; Majitha man; Majitha man (7 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/206146/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/357489/)
**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
**display title redacted:** Majitha Man vs State of Punjab and Others
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '1995-05-10', '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 1,050,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'AIR 1995 SC 1949', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/206146/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/357489/', '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:** Supreme Court found DSP-led police party abducted and killed 7 family members, awarded Rs 1.50 lakh compensation per victim (Rs 10,50,000 total) plus prosecution and disciplinary action.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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