The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain) awarded Rs 5 lakh to chemist a Bhikhi man, who spent 5 months and 10 days in custody in a concocted NDPS case (FIR No. 60/2013, PS Bhikhi). The Court found the police propounded two parallel stories, shifting the recovery of intoxicant tablets from his shop to a road in village Matti to strengthen the case, a fabrication unearthed only because an SIT was constituted; the FIR was later cancelled. Holding this a sample of police highhandedness, the Court granted public-law compensation following Rini Johar, payable by Punjab within a month with liberty to recover from the erring officials, who had already been suspended and punished with forfeiture of two years' service. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 4 July 2018 in CWP No. 1247 of 2016, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Rakesh Kumar Jain, J.) returned findings adverse to 7 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector (SHO), PS Bhikhi, Mansa; Assistant Sub-Inspector, PS Bhikhi, Mansa; Assistant Sub-Inspector, PS Bhikhi, Mansa; Assistant Sub-Inspector, PS Bhikhi, Mansa; Unknown, PS Bhikhi, Mansa; Head Constable, PS Bhikhi, Mansa; Constable, PS Bhikhi, Mansa, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 4 July 2018 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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Official finding: supports allegation.
Holding not recorded separately.
“It is a sample of highhandedness on the part of the police who had virtually implicated the petitioner in a case concocted by them and as a result thereof, the petitioner had to remain behind the bars for a period …” (para un-numbered operative para (p.10-11 of judgment); quote spans page break but is contiguous)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.
(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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