The Punjab and Haryana High Court accepted a Sessions Judge's enquiry finding that a Narwana man, 41, was illegally arrested and murdered in the custody of Police Station Sadar Narwana on the night of 28-29 July 1996 by being given alcohol laced with aluminium phosphide. The court rejected the police and co-detainee accounts as unreliable, held the State vicariously liable under Nilabati Behera and D.K. Basu, and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation payable within two months. It transferred investigation of FIR No. 268 of 1996 under Section 302 IPC to the CBI for prosecution of the guilty, leaving individual culpability to that probe. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 31 March 2000 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1263 of 1996, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: K. S. Kumaran, J.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: Head Constable, Police Station Sadar Narwana; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Sadar Narwana; Station House Officer, Police Station Sadar Narwana; Deputy Superintendent of Police, Narwana, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 31 March 2000 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“Therefore, from the materials placed before the Court, especially the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory and the opinion of the Board of Doctors, who gave the opinion that a Narwana man died of aluminium phosphide (celphos) poisoning, it is …” (para 23)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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