# Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 20 May 2025, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Harpreet Singh Brar, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar; Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000).

- Register number: PB 02 CW 0017
- Case reference: Not stated
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Harpreet Singh Brar, J.), 20 May 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar; Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Allowing the act of respondent No.5 to go unchecked would effectively mean validating a death sentence, passed not in line with the due process of law, but by the law enforcement agency donning the role of the judge, jury and …” (at para 10)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/crm-m12183201620052025finalorder-601232.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0038)

**Record:** CW-2025-0038 (compiler id CWC-1316); case SWDISPRO-020
**Title:** Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Harpreet Singh Brar
**Case number / citation:** Not stated
**Judgment:** 2025-05-20 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2013-05-23 (2013)
**Place:** Amritsar, Punjab; city town: Amritsar; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** disproportionate force
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 304
**Officers (gated display forms):** Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar; Head Constable, Punjab Police, Amritsar (2 in record)
**Victims:** Amritsar man, age 22 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice Harpreet Singh Brar) held that the 23 May 2013 point-blank police shooting of 22-year-old an Amritsar man inside an Amritsar barber shop was an excess by the State law-enforcement agency and awarded Rs 15 lakh compensation to his mother. The Court noted the chest wound's black ring proved a point-blank shot fired without warning, arrest attempt or chance to surrender, and rejected self-defence since trained officers with pistols could have arrested a man armed only with a knife. It relied on Prakash Kadam on extra-judicial killings and noted the mother fought 12 years for an FIR and Crime Branch probe. The jurisdictional Magistrate was directed to assess the second cancellation report in the s.304 IPC case. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Allowing the act of respondent No.5 to go unchecked would effectively mean validating a death sentence, passed not in line with the due process of law, but by the law enforcement agency donning the role of the judge, jury and executioner.

**Sources (2):** [livelaw-bennett.refread.com](https://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/crm-m12183201620052025finalorder-601232.pdf); [lawyerenews.com](https://lawyerenews.com/legal_detail/trigger-happy-policemen-must-know-the-gallows-await-them-punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-rs15-lakh-compensation-for-custodial-killing-of-22-year-old)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** disproportionate_force
**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:** 10
**display title redacted:** Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)
**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': \['case_title', 'primary_source_url'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-05-20', '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 1,500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment 2025-05-20', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/crm-m12183201620052025finalorder-601232.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://lawyerenews.com/legal_detail/trigger-happy-policemen-must-know-the-gallows-await-them-punjab-haryana-high-court-grants-rs15-lakh-compensation-for-custodial-killing-of-22-year-old', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** disproportionate force
**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:** HC held point-blank police shooting an excess by law-enforcement agency; Rs 15L to mother.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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