# Amritsar, Punjab: police records
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# Amritsar, Punjab
Every record from this district, newest first, with the police stations they name.
## Police stations named in these records
- [Cantonment](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/station/punjab/cantonment) 1
- [Jhabal](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/station/punjab/jhabal) 1
- [Kathunangal](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/station/punjab/kathunangal) 1
- [Lopoke](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/station/punjab/lopoke) 1
## High Court and Supreme Court findings 13
- [Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0005) High Court / Supreme Court · 20 May 2025 · Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000) ordered
The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. On 23 May 2013, 22-year-old an Amritsar man alias an Amritsar man was sitting inside a barber shop in Amritsar when Head Constable and Head Constable approached and shot him at po…
- [Mother's plea re FIR u/s 304 IPC against policemen, Amritsar (title not traced)](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0038) High Court / Supreme Court · 20 May 2025 · Rs 15 lakh (Rs 15,00,000) ordered
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 compens…
- [Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and Others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0032) High Court / Supreme Court · 22 July 2022 · Rs 50,000 ordered
Varun Kumar alleged his brother [name withheld] was illegally detained at PS B-Division Urban, Amritsar; the warrant officer raid at 00:50 on 09.09.2019 found him in the lock-up, with the detenue claiming custody since 05.09.2019 against the police claim of ar…
- [Verka Man vs State of Punjab and Others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0006) High Court / Supreme Court · 17 April 2018 · Rs 20 lakh (Rs 20,00,000) ordered
The Punjab and Haryana High Court awarded Rs 20 lakh to Harjit Kaur, widow of a Verka man @ a Verka man (38), killed by an Amritsar police party on 16 June 2015 at Mudhal near Verka with 23 gunshot injuries fired into his car, holding even a dreaded criminal c…
- [Amritsar Man vs State of Punjab and Others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2017-0011) High Court / Supreme Court · 25 September 2017 · Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000) ordered
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 …
- [Baldev Singh vs State of Punjab with \[name withheld\] vs State of Punjab](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2013-0013) High Court / Supreme Court · 20 September 2013
The Supreme Court (Justices A. K. Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Misra) upheld the abduction convictions of a Punjab DSP and a constable for the 29 October 1991 Bagga abductions of seven men, affirming the trial court's 1998 verdict and the High Court's 2005 dismissal…
- [Prithipal Singh Etc. vs State of Punjab & Anr. Etc.](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2011-0019) High Court / Supreme Court · 4 November 2011
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Human rights activist an Amritsar man, who investigated and exposed the mass illegal cremations of thousands of unidentified bodies by Punjab Police, was abducted outside his Amritsar ho…
- [Jandiala Guru Man vs State of Punjab and Others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0002) High Court / Supreme Court · 3 February 2006 · Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000) ordered
The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Replace final sentence ' ' with the police account from para 3: per the SSP's reply, a Jandiala Guru man was arrested 8.5.1992 at a naka with an unlicensed.30 bore mouser (FIR No.…
- [Shahura Man v. State of Punjab and Others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2001-0018) High Court / Supreme Court · 26 September 2001 · Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000) ordered
Add the recorded police case: arrest in FIR 21/1988, disclosure statement, escape during arms-recovery escort, FIR 23/1988 s.224, proclaimed offender, exoneration in DC and SP inquiries (paras 2, 4, 7). Drop the false 'police version is not recorded' sentence.
- [Amritsar Man v. State of Punjab and Ors.](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1996-0007) High Court / Supreme Court · 7 August 1996 · Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000) ordered
The Supreme Court, on Paramjit Kaur's habeas petition for her husband [name withheld] abducted on 6 September 1995, ordered a CBI inquiry and then prosecution of the officials on the CBI report, directing Punjab to pay Rs 10 lakh interim compensation recoverab…
- [Majitha Man vs State of Punjab and Others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1995-0002) High Court / Supreme Court · 10 May 1995 · Rs 10.5 lakh (Rs 10,50,000) ordered
The Supreme Court of India held the State of Punjab liable for the abduction, unlawful detention, and extrajudicial liquidation of seven members of a single family from village Bagga, Majitha. Acting upon a report submitted by the Director of the Central Burea…
- [Punjab Police Ex-Constable vs State of Punjab and Another](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1994-0006) High Court / Supreme Court · 14 January 1994
The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Constable was posted on armed sentry duty (10 p.m. to 2 a.m.) at the residence of the SSP Amritsar on the night of 19-20 January 1983, but slept in the garage, and his service rif…
- [Bhagwan Singh and Another v. State of Punjab; Uttam Chand v. State of Punjab](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1992-0006) High Court / Supreme Court · 8 May 1992
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Amritsar CIA Staff policemen and upheld the High Court's convictions for abducting a narcotics suspect and three witnesses from a hotel on 6 August 1978, torturing them in the CIA Staff Room, murdering the suspect and…
## Trial-court convictions 1
- [CBI v. Punjab Police Deputy Superintendent of Police and others](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/trial-court/t2-07-008) Trial-court conviction · 18 November 2005
Additional District Judge [name withheld], Patiala, on 18 November 2005 convicted six Punjab Police officials in the CBI-prosecuted abduction and murder of human rights activist [name withheld], who was picked up outside his Amritsar home on 6 September 1995, …