# Mohali Man vs State of Punjab

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 July 1996 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 3342 of 1989, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: V.K. Jhanji, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala; Assistant Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: PB 65 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 3342 of 1989 / (1996) 3 RCR (Criminal) 752
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: V.K. Jhanji, J.), 5 July 1996
- Officer(s) at the material time: Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala; Assistant Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “the evidence both direct and circumstantial, as discussed above, inevitably points to the conclusion that a Mohali man was effectively captured from House No. 1752 and whisked away in the jeep parked at some distance from the aforesaid house to …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/144857/tarlochan-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1996-0006)

**Record:** CW-1996-0006 (compiler id CWC-0310); case PUNJAB-014; aliases: CWC-1432
**Title:** Mohali Man vs State of Punjab
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: V.K. Jhanji
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 3342 of 1989 / (1996) 3 RCR (Criminal) 752
**Judgment:** 1996-07-05 (1996, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1989-09-01 (1989)
**Place:** Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab (district at time: Rupnagar); city town: Mohali; police station or unit: CIA Staff Patiala; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** enforced disappearance
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** CrPC 197
**Officers (gated display forms):** Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala; Assistant Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Patiala (2 in record)
**Victims:** Mohali man; Mohali man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The High Court of Punjab and Haryana held that CIA Staff Patiala police officers abducted and eliminated a Mohali man following a raid on a house in SAS Nagar (Mohali) in September 1989, in which his companion a Mohali man was shot dead. The Court accepted the report of the District and Sessions Judge, Chandigarh, rejecting the police's false claim that a Mohali man had escaped unarmed from an armed police cordon. The High Court directed the CBI to register a criminal case, investigate, and file a chargesheet against Inspector \[name withheld\] and ASI, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation to the deceased's family, recoverable from the accused upon conviction. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> the evidence both direct and circumstantial, as discussed above, inevitably points to the conclusion that a Mohali man was effectively captured from House No. 1752 and whisked away in the jeep parked at some distance from the aforesaid house to some undisclosed destination and his nonproduction before the Hon'ble High Court is indicative of his elimination in flagrant violation of law of the land

**Sources (4):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/144857/tarlochan-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/); [hrw.org](https://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india1007/india1007.htm); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b49491607dba348f00d611); [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/153425/karnail-singh-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-and-others-respondent-1/)
**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:** Mohali Man vs State of Punjab
**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': '1996-07-05', '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 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(1996) 3 RCR (Criminal) 752', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/144857/tarlochan-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india1007/india1007.htm', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b49491607dba348f00d611', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/153425/karnail-singh-and-another-appellant-hash-state-of-punjab-and-others-respondent-1/', '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:** Punjab & Haryana HC accepted inquiry finding that CIA Patiala police abducted and eliminated a Mohali man, ordered CBI prosecution and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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