The Punjab and Haryana High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh to Bhupinder Kaur, widow of an Amritsar man @ an Amritsar man, picked up on 3 March 2011 by SSOC officers, held in illegal custody before remand, and found hanged in the Joint Interrogation Cell on 14 March 2011. Though medical and magisterial inquiries found suicide, the Court held police duty-bound for his safety, found dereliction already punished departmentally, and noted custody-period injuries pointing to torture. It directed payment within two months and dismissed the CBI-probe plea. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 25 September 2017 in CRWP 655-2011 with CRM-W-300-2011, CRM-M-14644-2011, CWP 8613-2011, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Kuldip Singh, J.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: SP/DSP, State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Amritsar; Inspector, State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Amritsar; Sub-Inspector, State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Amritsar; Inspector, State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Amritsar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 25 September 2017 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Holding not recorded separately.
“There was dereliction of duty, which was even found in the departmental proceedings and the guilty officials/officers were awarded punishment.” (para n/a)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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