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.
This page documents a court-adjudicated case from the judgment and cited sources below. Findings are attributed to the court; this record does not add findings of its own.
How verification works →By judgment dated 26 September 2001 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1204 of 1997, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: M.L. Singhal, J.) returned findings adverse to 6 police personnel, namely: SHO, PS Lopoke, Amritsar; SHO, PS Gharinda, Amritsar; Head Constable, PS Lopoke escort party; Head Constable, PS Lopoke escort party; Constable, PS Lopoke escort party; Constable, PS Lopoke escort party, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 26 September 2001 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Holding not recorded separately.
“Preponderance of probability is in favour of the view that if he had escaped from police custody on 13.2.88, he would have returned to his family after the State terrorism had ceased.” (para 10)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.
(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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