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.
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How verification works →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).
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Judgment dated 20 May 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“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 …” (para 10)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,500,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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