CW-2009-0015Barnala, PunjabJudgment 23 September 2009

Barnala Man v. State of Punjab

Replace 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. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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By judgment dated 23 September 2009 in Criminal Appeal No. 332-DB of 1998 with Criminal Misc. No. 35100 of 2009, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Mehtab S. Gill, Jitendra Chauhan, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: Sarabjit Rai (Sub-Inspector); Darshan Singh (Assistant Sub-Inspector); Darshan Singh (Deputy Superintendent of Police); Madan Gopal (Superintendent of Police), and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 crore (Rs 1,00,00,000).

Register number
PB 19 CW 0002
Case reference
Criminal Appeal No. 332-DB of 1998 with Criminal Misc. No. 35100 of 2009
Court and date
Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Mehtab S. Gill, Jitendra Chauhan, JJ.), 23 September 2009
Officer(s) at the material time
Sarabjit Rai (Sub-Inspector); Darshan Singh (Assistant Sub-Inspector); Darshan Singh (Deputy Superintendent of Police); Madan Gopal (Superintendent of Police)
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Article 21 of the Constitution of India
Finding of the Court (extract)
“Perjury has been committed by the complainant party and the Investigating Officers. They stated lies before the learned trial Court, to get a favourable verdict of conviction against the appellants, which they succeeded in doing so.” (at para n/a)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1 crore (Rs 1,00,00,000).
Present status of the proceedings
No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.

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 23 September 2009 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

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Material fact supported

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Official finding: supports allegation.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“Perjury has been committed by the complainant party and the Investigating Officers. They stated lies before the learned trial Court, to get a favourable verdict of conviction against the appellants, which they succeeded in doing so.” (para n/a)

Institutional response

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23 Sep 2009

Order issued

Concluded
Punjab and Haryana High Court External · Binding

The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000,000.

Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: Criminal Appeal No. 332-DB of 1998 with Criminal Misc. No. 35100 of 2009
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Follow-up history

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19 Sep 2026

(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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