# Jammu Man and Another v. State of Punjab and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 6 May 2011 in CRWP No. 883 of 2003, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Jora Singh, J.) returned findings adverse to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Trainee SHO, Police Station Gangyal, Jammu, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: JK 02 CW 0001
- Case reference: CRWP No. 883 of 2003
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Jora Singh, J.), 6 May 2011
- Officer(s) at the material time: Deputy Superintendent of Police, Trainee SHO, Police Station Gangyal, Jammu
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 344 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Keeping in view 41 injuries on the person of deceased and the way deceased was tortured in police custody, State of Jammu and Kashmir, is directed to pay Rs. 5 lacs as compensation to the wife and the children of …” (at para n/a (operative para, judgment p.32; paras unnumbered))
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/80798392/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2011-0008)

**Record:** CW-2011-0008 (compiler id CWC-0069); case CHANDI-015
**Title:** Jammu Man and Another v. State of Punjab and Others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Jora Singh
**Case number / citation:** CRWP No. 883 of 2003
**Judgment:** 2011-05-06 (2011, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2003-06-21 (2003)
**Place:** Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir; city town: Jammu; police station or unit: Police Station Gangyal, Jammu; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 344; Constitution Art. 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Deputy Superintendent of Police, Trainee SHO, Police Station Gangyal, Jammu (1 in record)
**Victims:** Jammu man, age 26; Jammu boy, age 15; Jammu boy, age 15; Jammu man; Jammu man, age 20; Jammu boy, age 17; Jammu boy, age 15; Jammu man (8 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Punjab and Haryana High Court disposed of a habeas corpus petition over eight Punjab youths picked up by a J&K police party led by DSP as suspected Kala Kachha gang members, holding a man (26) was kept confined illegally and tortured at PS Gangyal, Jammu. Arrested from Amritsar on 21 June 2003 without production before any Magistrate, he died on 3 July 2003 with 41 injuries including electric-shock marks; death was by haemorrhage and shock. The Court rejected the police version of release and death by illness, noting absent arrest memos and afterthought roznamcha entries, and awarded Rs 5 lakh against the State of J&K, recoverable from the DSP. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Keeping in view 41 injuries on the person of deceased and the way deceased was tortured in police custody, State of Jammu and Kashmir, is directed to pay Rs. 5 lacs as compensation to the wife and the children of deceased with liberty to recover Rs. 5 lacs from Sh. \[name withheld\], DSP, Trainee SHO, Police Station Gangyal- respondent No. 7.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80798392/)
**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:** True
**court quote para:** n/a (operative para, judgment p.32; paras unnumbered)
**display title redacted:** Jammu Man and Another v. 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': '2011-05-06', '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 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'CRWP No. 883 of 2003', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/80798392/', '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:** 41-injury custodial torture-death at PS Gangyal; Rs 5L against J&K recoverable from DSP.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 26, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a man'}; {'age': 15, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 15-year-old boy'}; {'age': 15, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 15-year-old boy'}; {'age': None, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a man'}; {'age': 20, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a man'}; {'age': 17, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 17-year-old boy'}; {'age': 15, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a 15-year-old boy'}; {'age': None, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': None}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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