# Chandigarh Man v. State (Union Territory of Chandigarh) and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 9 October 2007 in Civil Writ Petition No. 11943 of 2007, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Uma Nath Singh, Rajive Bhalla, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Sub-Inspector, Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 9.9 lakh (Rs 9,95,000).

- Register number: CH 01 CW 0006
- Case reference: Civil Writ Petition No. 11943 of 2007 / (2007) 10 P&H CK 0167
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Uma Nath Singh, Rajive Bhalla, JJ.), 9 October 2007
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Article 227 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In the instant case, a Magisterial enquiry was ordered after the incident and a SDM (an IAS officer) was assigned that job who on a detailed and thorough enquiry has found accused \[name withheld\]. 6 \[name withheld\] guilty of negligence …” (at para 8)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 9.9 lakh (Rs 9,95,000).
- 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/174790/phoolwati-appellant-hash-state-union-territory-of-chandigarh-and-others-respondent-1/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2007-0012)

**Record:** CW-2007-0012 (compiler id CWC-0068); case CHANDI-014
**Title:** Chandigarh Man v. State (Union Territory of Chandigarh) and Others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Uma Nath Singh; Rajive Bhalla
**Case number / citation:** Civil Writ Petition No. 11943 of 2007 / (2007) 10 P&H CK 0167
**Judgment:** 2007-10-09 (2007, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2007-07-11 (2007)
**Place:** Chandigarh, Chandigarh; city town: Chandigarh; police station or unit: Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 304; Constitution Art. 226; Constitution Art. 227
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, Police Station Manimajra, Chandigarh (1 in record)
**Victims:** Chandigarh man, age 21 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 9.9 lakh (Rs 9,95,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Division Bench partly allowed the writ of Phoolwati, mother of 21-year-old a Chandigarh man, who died in custody at PS Manimajra on 11 July 2007 after being taken to SI 's first-floor room and found fallen from a height. The Court accepted the SDM's magisterial enquiry finding the SI guilty of negligence and gross dereliction, noted D.K. Basu violations including no arrest memo or intimation, and awarded Rs 9.95 lakh compensation computed on multiplier principles, payable by the UT Administration within three months. It declined the CBI-transfer prayer as the Crime Branch probe, magisterial enquiry, post-mortem and CCTV record left little scope for further investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In the instant case, a Magisterial enquiry was ordered after the incident and a SDM (an IAS officer) was assigned that job who on a detailed and thorough enquiry has found accused \[name withheld\]. 6 \[name withheld\] guilty of negligence and gross dereliction in performance of his duties by not making provision for guarding of the deceased during his stay in the Police Station between 12.57 noon to 3.00 PM on the date of the incident.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/174790/phoolwati-appellant-hash-state-union-territory-of-chandigarh-and-others-respondent-1/); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b4948c607dba348f00d236)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial death', '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:** 8
**display title redacted:** Chandigarh Man v. State (Union Territory of Chandigarh) 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': '2007-10-09', '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 995,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2007) 10 P&H CK 0167', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/174790/phoolwati-appellant-hash-state-union-territory-of-chandigarh-and-others-respondent-1/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b4948c607dba348f00d236', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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:** Rs 9.95L for Manimajra custodial death; agent IK link is the later bail order in same FIR, not this judgment.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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