The Supreme Court recorded that Punjab Police arrested a man at about 07:54 am on 17.05.2026 in a case registered at Mataur Police Station and produced him before the duty Magistrate only around noon on 18.05.2026, and that no written grounds of arrest were given to him; the Magistrate declared the arrest illegal and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Constable (No. 2-C/280) of the Punjab Armed Police, posted with the 2nd Commando Battalion at Bahadurgarh, overstayed one day casual leave from 2 April 1994 and rejoined only on 12 May 1994, having already faced three prior departmental actions…
Read the court recordThe 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 point-blank range in the chest, killing him instantly. Police…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Sultanpur Lodhi man @ a Sultanpur Lodhi man was booked in FIR 125 dated 26 June 2024 under Section 22 of the NDPS Act at Sultanpur Lodhi after 525 capsules were recovered from him, but the FSL report received by police on 31 August 2024…
Read the court recordA Sangrur man was abducted from his village home on 14 November 1995 by Railway Police, held for 9 days and brutally tortured with danda blows to the head, rib injuries and near-drowning, released in a crippled state, and died in PGI Chandigarh on 7 December 1995 of ante-mortem injuries sufficient to cause death. The…
Read the court recordVarun 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 arrest on 08.09.2019. The Commissioner of Police, Amritsar…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Rupnagar woman is a Rupnagar woman's SISTER (both daughters of Sh. Parvinder Singh), not her daughter; the absconding accused [name withheld] is a Rupnagar woman's husband and petitioner [name withheld]'s father — a Rupnagar woman is…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. On 25 October 1991 police fired on unarmed striking workers of Bhawani Cotton Mill, Abohar, killing six workers and two boys and injuring eighteen others; the police then registered FIR No.179 against the labourers claiming self-defence.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Kot Bhai woman was arrested on 29 September 2012 in an abetment-of-suicide case and lodged in the lock-up at Police Station Kot Bhai. On 30 September 2012 she collapsed after using the bathroom and died at Civil Hospital, Gidderbaha…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe 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 cannot be killed in cold blood in a fake encounter. The…
Read the court recordOn 6 July 2011 custody of undertrial Harnam Singh was handed to three Sangrur Head Constables for production before the Special Court at Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, and he escaped from their custody on 7 July 2011. The Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sangrur convicted all three under Section 223 IPC (one year simple…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the bribery conviction of ASI Balbir Singh, who as investigating officer of FIR 23/2002 demanded Rs 5,000 from complainant [name withheld] for joining investigation after anticipatory bail, settling for Rs 3,000 at his official quarter on 2 May 2002. A Vigilance Bureau trap…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. On 15.08.1997 Punjab Home Guard Constable, posted at PS Julka, Patiala, came with his official rifle to Dhaliwal Nursing Home at Devigarh and shot Dr. A Devigarh man in the chest; the doctor was declared dead at Rajendra Hospital…
Read the court recordThe 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 of their appeal. The Court held the abductions proved by…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Balachaur SHO Radha Krishan and two policemen convicted of detaining a dai overnight on 9 February 1989 and gang-raping her after picking her up for interrogation about terrorists frequenting her house. The Court sustained the concurrent findings under Sections 323/34, 504/34…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Ludhiana man, a B.Sc. student of Punjab Agricultural University, was forcibly picked up from his Ludhiana home on 9 July 1989 by a police party headed by DSP; his father telegraphed the Chief Justice apprehending torture and false…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Khanna man was arrested on 25 March 2001 in an NDPS case (35 kg poppy husk) at PS Sadar Khanna and remanded to police custody till 28 March 2001 by an order mentioning no injury; on 27 March 2001 he was declared brought dead at Civil…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the criminal revision of Head Constable of the Punjab Police and his wife [name withheld], upholding their conviction under s.420 IPC for extracting Rs.70,000 from job-seeker a Faridkot man on the false promise of arranging a police constable post. Rs.50,000 was paid at the…
Read the court recordThe 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 home on 6 September 1995. He was detained secretly at Police…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Replace final sentence ' ' with: Per para 7, SI 's stand was that on MHC [name withheld]'s telephonic message he called a doctor, who gave an injection and advised hospital; the deceased was taken to hospital at 11.30 PM, put on oxygen…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Vegetable seller a Mehal Kalan man, wanted in a murder FIR, was arrested on 31 July 1995 by SHO and lodged in the Mehal Kalan lock-up at 6:30 p.m.; police claimed he suffered fits at 7 p.m. and died en route to hospital, but the…
Read the court recordReplace final sentence with: The prosecution case (PW7 statement) and the State's reply narrating FIR No.171/2008 are set out in the judgment; counsel for SI Sarabjit Rai, DSP Darshan Singh and SP Madan Gopal expressly declined to address merits lest it prejudice their clients in proceedings the court might initiate.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. FIR No.146 is dated 13.06.1992 (PS Sadar Batala, ss 25/54/59 Arms Act) — i.e. arrest shown a day BEFORE the alleged 14.6.1992 pickup, not 'later shown arrested'. Reword to: '...while the police showed him arrested in FIR No.146 dated…
Read the court recordThe 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.64, Arms Act), made a disclosure statement, and escaped in…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Replace limits sentence with: respondents denied the allegations (denial simplicitor) and the DC pleaded the 20.10.1994 compensation instructions inapplicable and the matter sub judice (para 5). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A Maluka man, aged about 40, was forcibly picked up from his house in village Maluka, Bathinda, on 3 April 1992 by ASI, Head Constable and a CRPF constable, and was never seen again. A District and Sessions Judge enquiry found the two…
Read the court recordAdd the recorded State side: respondents admitted the death and FIR 5/2003 s.304-A against nine jail + two police officials (para 3); State counsel contended it was an emergency, no negligence, no liability (para 6). Drop the false 'police version is not recorded' sentence.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Reword enquiry finding to: Addl. Sessions Judge did not establish abduction by the named ASI/constable but found it appeared from the evidence they had been abducted by the police (para 1). No 'eliminated' finding was recorded by the…
Read the court recordAdd 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.
Read the court recordHedge actor/date: counsel submitted [name withheld] was abducted 17.7.1993 by ASI and others (para 5); sessions inquiry did not establish allegations (para 3); court compensated on 'allegedly kidnapped' basis after CBI challan (para 9). Add State contention that no compensation case made as nothing shows murder (para…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. A 35-year-old bank branch manager was handed over by his father [name withheld] to Inspector, SHO, on 29 December 1992 and was never released; police claimed he escaped from handcuffs during a terrorist ambush on 11 January 1993 while…
Read the court recordReplace limits sentence with the recorded police case: Inspector denied involvement and disputed the inquiry report (para 3); SSP Sangrur stated a Malerkotla man escaped custody, joined terrorists and was killed in the encounter with Inspector's party, FIR 21/1993 (para 4). Delete the Malerkotla-district sentence…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court held a Qadian man, picked up without valid reason by Qadian police, was tortured with third-degree methods in ASI Gurmeet Singh's custody, fracturing both hip joints and permanently disabling him. The Court set aside the first Sessions enquiry, endorsed the supplementary report…
Read the court recordThe High Court of Punjab and Haryana held the police of Police Station Banur responsible for the custodial death of a Banur man on 1 September 1991. The police claimed the detainee committed suicide by consuming cyanide during an escorted weapon recovery operation, but the Court determined that cyanide could not have…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Punjab Police constables and a Jalandhar man were arrested on 4 September 1992 by SI of CIA Staff Jalandhar, while constable was picked up from Civil Hospital Sangrur on 28 August 1992; police claimed the first two escaped during a…
Read the court recordThe 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 recoverable from the officers on conviction. The Court called…
Read the court recordThe High Court of Punjab and Haryana held that CIA Staff Patiala police officers abducted and eliminated a Mohali man following a raid on a house in SAS Nagar (Mohali) in September 1989, in which his companion a Mohali man was shot dead. The Court accepted the report of the District and Sessions Judge, Chandigarh…
Read the court recordAdvocate a man, his wife and two-year-old child vanished after driving to PS City Ropar on 25 January 1993 and were never found; Ropar police instead built the murder case against a man, who agreed under police pressure to own the killings to save his life. The CBI report commissioned by the Supreme Court proved…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 29 January 1996 dismissed constable 's plea for reinstatement into the Punjab Police after his criminal conviction. The Court recorded that he was charged with others under Sections 302/34, 323 and 324 IPC for an assault causing one death and one injury; the High Court set aside the murder and…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court acted on the CBI report establishing on circumstantial evidence that SSP Ludhiana Sumedh Saini, an SP and two SHOs caused the disappearance of businessman [name withheld], his brother-in-law and his driver after they left for Ludhiana on 15 March 1994 following a High Court…
Read the court recordThe High Court of Punjab and Haryana awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation to the family of a Hariana man, who was eliminated in police custody. A Hariana man had been arrested on 30 December 1992 by Inspector of PS Hariana, and police subsequently claimed he escaped on 6 March 1993 while being led by Constable to recover…
Read the court recordThe 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 Bureau of Investigation, the Court found that DSP led a police…
Read the court record[name withheld] @ Dalli, aged 25, was handed to Bhawanigarh police on 22 April 1993 and police claimed he escaped during a half-hour exchange of fire on 24 April 1993; the Sessions Judge, Patiala, found instead that 11 police personnel conspired to liquidate him and murdered him in village Majhi. The High Court…
Read the court recordA Ladowal man, an agricultural labourer and milk vendor, was picked up on 16 August 1991 by six personnel of Police Chowki Ladowal and found dead in custody on the morning of 17 August 1991. The State admitted the death in custody but offered shifting explanations of snake-bite, vasovagal shock and chronic asthma, and…
Read the court recordThe 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 rifle was stolen (FIR No. 50 under Section 380 IPC). After a…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Constable (No. 1119/FZR) of the Punjab Police was dismissed by the SSP Ferozepur on 18 August 1987 after a departmental enquiry proved his absence without leave for 5 months and 5 days (22 August 1986 to 2 March 1987), and his appeal was…
Read the court recordConstable Ram Singh, gunman of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, was found heavily drunk on duty roaming at a bus stand wearing his service revolver; a traffic constable took him to the police station, the revolver was deposited in the malkhana, and medical examination confirmed heavy drunkenness. Dismissed on 11…
Read the court recordThe 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 disposing of his body so it was never recovered. The Court…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court allowed the State's second appeal and restored the dismissal of constable for wilfully absenting himself from Police Lines, Ferozepur for 37 days in 1983. The court held the proven absence was the gravest act of misconduct under Rule 16.2(1) of the Punjab Police Rules, 1934, that Rule…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court (Justice G. S. Chahal) held on the father's habeas petition that Punjab Police caused the disappearance of a Kharar man after arresting him at Kharar on 6 February 1991 and detaining him without justification or recovery. The court rejected the police abscondance account as false and…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court held Sub-Inspector, SHO of Police Station Sadar Zira, guilty of the illegal arrest of a Zira man, taken from his home at 6 a.m. on 3 July 1987 and seen behind bars at the police station before his whereabouts became unknown. Accepting the District and Sessions Judge Ferozepore's…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court sustained the dismissal of Punjab Police constable of Patiala, who had been dismissed on 1 April 1981 by the Additional Superintendent of Police after a departmental enquiry found wilful absence without permission in order to avoid a Refresher Course. The court held the Additional…
Read the court recordOn a habeas corpus petition by widow [name withheld] for her son [name withheld], the Punjab and Haryana High Court found the detenu confined at Police Station Sidhwan Bet with no roznamcha entry and no registered case, as reported by the court's Warrant Officer on 27 August 1983. The court held there was great…
Read the court recordPermanent Constable was allegedly found carrying 4,500 ml of illicit liquor near village Athali on 6 November 1966 (FIR 383 under the Excise Act, Phagwara), but the Magistrate acquitted him on 17 June 1967 without recording the available official witnesses after the prosecution gave up the public witness as won over.…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the State's appeal and upheld the Rs 40,000 damages decree against the State and constable-driver [name withheld] in favour of lawyer a Rajpura man, a Save Hindi agitation volunteer arrested at Chandigarh station on 15 July 1957, detained at Chandimandar and then conveyed at…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed the special-leave appeal of ASI Gian Singh, then Station House Officer of Police Station Raman, upholding his conviction under Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. The Court recorded that on 24 May 1968 he recorded a Raman man's complaint but did not arrest the…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 13 October 1970 allowed the State's appeal and dismissed Head Constable's suit, sustaining his 1954 dismissal from the Punjab Police. The Court found that the officiating ASI had been found guilty in a departmental enquiry of fabricating false evidence while investigating a criminal case. It held…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court affirmed the Punjab High Court's reversal of the trial acquittal of three Jaito policemen for the custodial death of opium suspect [name withheld]. Arrested on 24 December 1961, a Jaito man was beaten at his house and again overnight in the police station to extort a confession, found dead the next…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court upheld the conviction of SHO Ranjit Singh of Shehna under Section 193 IPC for filing a false affidavit denying the illegal detention of a Shehna man, who had been kept in the lock-up from 26.09.1953 to 10.10.1953 without charge or remand and then surreptitiously shifted across stations. The Court…
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