# Khanna Man vs State of Punjab and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 25 April 2012 in CWP No.19054 of 2005 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: M.M. Kumar, Alok Singh, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Assistant Sub-Inspector (SHO), Police Station Sadar, Khanna, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: PB 10 CW 0006
- Case reference: CWP No.19054 of 2005 (O&M)
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: M.M. Kumar, Alok Singh, JJ.), 25 April 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Assistant Sub-Inspector (SHO), Police Station Sadar, Khanna
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “not been dealt with fairly at the hands of police while in custody.” (at para 6)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 50,000.
- 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/192085258/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0018)

**Record:** CW-2012-0018 (compiler id CWC-0716); case GAP8-002
**Title:** Khanna Man vs State of Punjab and Others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: M.M. Kumar; Alok Singh
**Case number / citation:** CWP No.19054 of 2005 (O&M)
**Judgment:** 2012-04-25 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2001-03-27 (2001)
**Place:** Ludhiana, Punjab; city town: Khanna; police station or unit: Police Station Sadar, Khanna; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Assistant Sub-Inspector (SHO), Police Station Sadar, Khanna (1 in record)
**Victims:** Khanna man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Khanna man was arrested on 25 March 2001 in an NDPS case (35 kg poppy husk) at PS Sadar Khanna and remanded to police custody till 28 March 2001 by an order mentioning no injury; on 27 March 2001 he was declared brought dead at Civil Hospital with a swollen eye injury, and the medical board could not fix a cause of death. The Human Rights Commission closed the case finding no negligence. The Division Bench held the deceased had not been dealt with fairly in police custody, presuming the injury was inflicted after remand, set aside the Commission's order following Ram Sagar Yadav, and directed Rs.50,000 compensation within one month. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> not been dealt with fairly at the hands of police while in custody.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/192085258/)
**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:** 6
**display title redacted:** Khanna Man vs 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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2012-04-25', '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 50,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'CWP No.19054 of 2005 (O&M)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/192085258/', '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:** Unfair treatment in police custody inferred from remand silence; HRC closure set aside; Rs.50K awarded.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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