# Hisar Man vs Union of India and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 8 July 2011 in Civil Writ Petition No.5269 of 2011 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: K. Kannan, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: HR 20 CW 0002
- Case reference: Civil Writ Petition No.5269 of 2011 (O&M)
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: K. Kannan, J.), 8 July 2011
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “I am of the view that the case deserves a much more serious probe, for, a precious life has been lost due to what seems on the basis of records to be an excess police action.” (at para 3)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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/34282208/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2011-0032)

**Record:** CW-2011-0032 (compiler id CWC-1066); case GAP3-112-001
**Title:** Hisar Man vs Union of India and Others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: K. Kannan
**Case number / citation:** Civil Writ Petition No.5269 of 2011 (O&M)
**Judgment:** 2011-07-08 (2011, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2008-09-16 (2008)
**Place:** Hisar, Haryana; city town: Hisar; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 294
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Hisar man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Punjab and Haryana High Court held that the custodial death of petitioner \[name withheld\]'s husband was prima facie caused by excess police action, rejecting a Special Investigation Team report that blamed a train fall and chronic drunkenness. The Court noted the Magistrate had recorded no injuries at remand, yet the post-mortem showed a fatal head injury with multiple bruises, and the sub-jail had refused to admit the man. It directed the District Judge, Hisar to hold an enquiry and report within four months, and ordered the State to pay Rs.2 lakh interim compensation within four weeks. No individual officer was named in the order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> I am of the view that the case deserves a much more serious probe, for, a precious life has been lost due to what seems on the basis of records to be an excess police action.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/34282208/)
**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:** 3
**display title redacted:** Hisar Man vs Union of India 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': '2011-07-08', '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 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Civil Writ Petition No.5269 of 2011 (O&M)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/34282208/', '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:** Interim compensation with prima-facie excess-police-action finding; final District Judge enquiry was still pending.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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