# Bhikhi Man v. State of Punjab and Others

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## Report card

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).

- Register number: PB 31 CW 0001
- Case reference: CWP No. 1247 of 2016
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Rakesh Kumar Jain, J.), 4 July 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: 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
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985; Section 61 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985; Section 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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 …” (at para un-numbered operative para (p.10-11 of judgment); quote spans page break but is contiguous)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- 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/198196771/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0018)

**Record:** CW-2018-0018 (compiler id CWC-0718); case SWILLEGA-065
**Title:** Bhikhi Man v. State of Punjab and Others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Rakesh Kumar Jain
**Case number / citation:** CWP No. 1247 of 2016
**Judgment:** 2018-07-04 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2013-08-10 (2013)
**Place:** Mansa, Punjab; city town: Bhikhi; police station or unit: Police Station Bhikhi, District Mansa; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** NDPS Act s.22; NDPS Act s.61; NDPS Act s.85
**Officers (gated display forms):** 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 (7 in record)
**Victims:** Bhikhi man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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 of 5 months and 10 days before he was ultimately released on bail.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/198196771/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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:** un-numbered operative para (p.10-11 of judgment); quote spans page break but is contiguous
**display title redacted:** Bhikhi Man v. 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para', 'sections'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2018-07-04', '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 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'CWP No. 1247 of 2016', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/198196771/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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:** PHHC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 5L award for concocted NDPS case and 5m10d custody matches.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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