{ "record_id": "CW-1995-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0216", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Neemuch", "district_at_time": "Mandsaur", "city_town": "Rampura", "police_station_or_unit": "Rampura Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 217 of 1993", "citation": "(1995) 4 SCC 262", "judges": [ "A.S. Anand", "M.K. Mukherjee" ], "judgment_date": "1995-05-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": "1981-10-13", "incident_year": 1981, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 34", "IPC 201", "IPC 342" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Shyamsunder Trivedi", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Shyamsunder Trivedi", "display": "Shyamsunder Trivedi (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Ram Naresh Shukla", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ram Naresh Shukla", "display": "Ram Naresh Shukla (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Rajaram Mishra", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rajaram Mishra", "display": "Rajaram Mishra (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Ganniuddin", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.89, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ganniuddin", "display": "Ganniuddin (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rampura man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": 110000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/838507/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Rampura man was brought to Rampura Police Station for interrogation on October 13, 1981, where he was subjected to brutal custodial torture and died of multiple traumatic injuries. The police attempted to screen the offence by creating false roznamcha entries and attempting to cremate the corpse as an unclaimed body until local bar members and villagers intervened. Setting aside the trial court acquittals and partial High Court acquittal, the Supreme Court convicted Sub-Inspector Shyamsunder Trivedi and three other police officers under Sections 304 Part II read with 34, 201, and 342 of the IPC. The Court held that when custodial death occurs, a presumption arises against the police custodians, sentencing Trivedi to two years RI plus Rs. 50,000 fine and the other three officers to one year RI plus Rs. 20,000 fine each, with all fines directed to be paid as compensation to the victim's heirs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Rampura man was brought to Rampura Police Station for interrogation on October 13, 1981, where he was subjected to brutal custodial torture and died of multiple traumatic injuries. The police attempted to screen the offence by creating false roznamcha entries and attempting to cremate the corpse as an unclaimed body until local bar members and villagers intervened. Setting aside the trial court acquittals and partial High Court acquittal, the Supreme Court convicted Sub-Inspector Shyamsunder Trivedi and three other police officers under Sections 304 Part II read with 34, 201, and 342 of the IPC. The Court held that when custodial death occurs, a presumption arises against the police custodians, sentencing Trivedi to two years RI plus Rs. 50,000 fine and the other three officers to one year RI plus Rs. 20,000 fine each, with all fines directed to be paid as compensation to the victim's heirs.", "court_quote": "Generally speaking, it would be police officials alone who can only explain the circumstances in which a person in their custody had died.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court reversed acquittals and convicted four police personnel under IPC 304 Part II/34, 201, 342 for custodial death of a Rampura man, ordering fines paid to victim's heirs.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial death", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1995-05-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1995) 4 SCC 262", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/838507/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-004", "officers_named_public": 4, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }