# New Delhi Man vs Union of India; Jaspal Kaur vs Union of India

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## Report card

By judgment dated 4 July 2011 in W.P.(C) Nos. 4756 & 5405/1997, the Delhi High Court (Coram: S. Muralidhar, J.) returned findings adverse to 10 police personnel, namely: Satyavir Singh Rathi (Assistant Commissioner of Police); Anil Kumar (Inspector); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Shiv Kumar (Head Constable); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sunil Kumar (Constable); Subhash Chand (Constable); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sumer Singh (Constable), and directed payment of compensation of Rs 30 lakh (Rs 30,00,000).

- Register number: DL 02 CW 0006
- Case reference: W.P.(C) Nos. 4756 & 5405/1997 / (2011) 125 DRJ 273
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: S. Muralidhar, J.), 4 July 2011
- Officer(s) at the material time: Satyavir Singh Rathi (Assistant Commissioner of Police); Anil Kumar (Inspector); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Shiv Kumar (Head Constable); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sunil Kumar (Constable); Subhash Chand (Constable); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sumer Singh (Constable)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “a sum of Rs. 15 lakhs being the compensation amount payable to the Petitioner and her two children. The Registrar General will within a week thereafter pay Rs. 5,00,000/- each to Jaspal Kaur and her two children on proper identification.” (at para 33)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 30 lakh (Rs 30,00,000).
- 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/1334822/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2011-0011)

**Record:** CW-2011-0011 (compiler id CWC-0106); case DELHI-015
**Title:** New Delhi Man vs Union of India; Jaspal Kaur vs Union of India
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: S. Muralidhar
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(C) Nos. 4756 & 5405/1997 / (2011) 125 DRJ 273
**Judgment:** 2011-07-04 (2011, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1997-03-31 (1997)
**Place:** New Delhi, Delhi; city town: New Delhi (Connaught Place); police station or unit: Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 307; IPC 34
**Officers (gated display forms):** Satyavir Singh Rathi (Assistant Commissioner of Police); Anil Kumar (Inspector); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Shiv Kumar (Head Constable); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sunil Kumar (Constable); Subhash Chand (Constable); Police personnel, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sumer Singh (Constable) (10 in record)
**Victims:** New Delhi man; New Delhi man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 30 lakh (Rs 30,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Delhi High Court awarded Rs 15,00,000 each to the families of a New Delhi man and a New Delhi man, the two businessmen killed in the Connaught Place fake encounter of 31 March 1997, holding the State's liability to compensate for the callous and wanton killing undoubted. With ten Crime Branch policemen led by ACP Satyavir Singh Rathi already convicted of murder at trial, the Court computed pecuniary dependency with CPI-indexed non-pecuniary compensation, interest and costs. It held that criminal trial, disciplinary action and constitutional-court reparation are three independent facets of accountability, and expressed surprise that Delhi Police rules let convicted murderers remain in service pending appeal.

> a sum of Rs. 15 lakhs being the compensation amount payable to the Petitioner and her two children. The Registrar General will within a week thereafter pay Rs. 5,00,000/- each to Jaspal Kaur and her two children on proper identification.

**Sources (3):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1334822/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/708584/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30945257/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing
**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:** 33
**display title redacted:** New Delhi Man vs Union of India; Jaspal Kaur vs Union of India
**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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para', 'officers', 'sections'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2011-07-04', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Delhi High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 3,000,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2011) 125 DRJ 273', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1334822/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/708584/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30945257/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**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 15L x 2 verified via mirror snippets + quotation in 2022 sequel (primary 429).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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