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 "record_id": "CW-2006-0019",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1248",
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 "display_title": "Morena Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Morena Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Morena",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Morena",
 "police_station_or_unit": "City Kotwali, Morena",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Morena Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2006(2) MPHT 18",
 "judges": [
  "A.K. Patnaik",
  "R.K. Gupta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2006-02-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2006,
 "incident_date": "1996-08-22",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 309",
  "Constitution Art. 21",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "City Kotwali, Morena",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, City Kotwali, Morena"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, City Kotwali, Morena"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "City Kotwali, Morena",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, City Kotwali, Morena"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Morena man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 300000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/975911/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Morena man was picked up at Morena railway station for inquiry on 22 August 1996, suffered severe burn injuries at City Kotwali, Morena, and died in hospital at Gwalior on 24 August 1996. His father alleged that ASI, SI and Head Constable set his son on fire, citing a dying declaration, while the police claimed he slipped into the unlocked Malkhana and set himself ablaze, a version the CID probe accepted. The Court held the CJM had mechanically accepted the closure report without hearing the informant, quashed that acceptance and remitted the matter with liberty to order further investigation. The Court further held that even on the suicide version, keeping the Malkhana unlocked with inflammables inside was gross police negligence, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation against the State for the Article 21 violation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Morena man was picked up at Morena railway station for inquiry on 22 August 1996, suffered severe burn injuries at City Kotwali, Morena, and died in hospital at Gwalior on 24 August 1996. His father alleged that ASI, SI and Head Constable set his son on fire, citing a dying declaration, while the police claimed he slipped into the unlocked Malkhana and set himself ablaze, a version the CID probe accepted. The Court held the CJM had mechanically accepted the closure report without hearing the informant, quashed that acceptance and remitted the matter with liberty to order further investigation. The Court further held that even on the suicide version, keeping the Malkhana unlocked with inflammables inside was gross police negligence, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation against the State for the Article 21 violation.",
 "court_quote": "Once a person is taken into custody of the Police, it is responsibility of the Police to ensure safety of his life.",
 "court_quote_para": "14",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; custodial death with gross police negligence, Rs 3 lakh compensation.",
 "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": "2006-02-17",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "2006(2) MPHT 18",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/975911/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-75-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}