# Jalandhar Man vs State of Punjab

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## Report card

By judgment dated 19 December 1996 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 524 of 1994 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Iqbal Singh, J.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Jalandhar, CIA Staff, Jalandhar; Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar, Jalandhar Police; Senior Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar, Jalandhar Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 9 lakh (Rs 9,00,000).

- Register number: PB 08 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 524 of 1994 (O&M) / (1997) 2 RCR(Criminal) 809
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Iqbal Singh, J.), 19 December 1996
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Jalandhar, CIA Staff, Jalandhar; Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar, Jalandhar Police; Senior Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar, Jalandhar Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The learned District and Sessions Judge, Jalandhar, in his report dated 24.5.1995 held that neither any encounter had taken place nor a Jalandhar man and a Jalandhar man had escaped from police custody. The story by the police has been …” (at para 4)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 9 lakh (Rs 9,00,000).
- 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/147047/joga-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1996-0012)

**Record:** CW-1996-0012 (compiler id CWC-0778); case SWENFORC-016; aliases: CWC-0301
**Title:** Jalandhar Man vs State of Punjab
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Iqbal Singh
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 524 of 1994 (O&M) / (1997) 2 RCR(Criminal) 809
**Judgment:** 1996-12-19 (1996, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1992-08-28 (1992)
**Place:** Jalandhar, Punjab; city town: Jalandhar; police station or unit: CIA Staff Jalandhar / Nakodar Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** enforced disappearance
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, CIA Staff Jalandhar, CIA Staff, Jalandhar; Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar, Jalandhar Police; Senior Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar, Jalandhar Police (3 in record)
**Victims:** Jalandhar man; Jalandhar man; Jalandhar man (3 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 9 lakh (Rs 9,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Punjab Police constables and a Jalandhar man were arrested on 4 September 1992 by SI of CIA Staff Jalandhar, while constable was picked up from Civil Hospital Sangrur on 28 August 1992; police claimed the first two escaped during a terrorist encounter and the third died in a genuine encounter with Nakodar police. The District and Sessions Judge, Jalandhar, found no encounter took place, the escape story was falsely devised, the two constables' lives were in all probability snuffed out by police, and a Jalandhar man's encounter version was concocted. The High Court accepted the well-reasoned report, rejected the SSP's attack on it, and directed the CBI to register a case and complete investigation within nine months. Applying strict liability under Nilabati Behera, the Court awarded Rs. 3,00,000 each to the three petitioners (fathers/mother of the deceased constables). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The learned District and Sessions Judge, Jalandhar, in his report dated 24.5.1995 held that neither any encounter had taken place nor a Jalandhar man and a Jalandhar man had escaped from police custody. The story by the police has been devised falsely.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/147047/joga-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/); [highcourtchd.gov.in](https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CRWP_769_1995.pdf)
**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:** 4
**display title redacted:** Jalandhar 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': '1996-12-19', '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 900,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(1997) 2 RCR(Criminal) 809', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/147047/joga-singh-vs-state-of-punjab/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/CRWP_769_1995.pdf', '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:** P&H HC accepted DJ report that two constables' lives were snuffed out by police and third died in concocted encounter, awarding Rs 3 lakh to each of three families plus CBI probe.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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