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 "record_id": "CW-2014-0028",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1259",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "State of M.P. vs BSF Head Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of M.P. vs BSF Head Constable",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Gwalior",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Tekanpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "BSF Tekanpur Academy (PS Dabra)",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Gwalior",
 "case_title": "State of M.P. vs BSF Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 577 of 2000",
 "citation": "(2015) CriLJ 763; (2014) 3 JLJ 225; (2014) 4 MPHT 144; (2014) 07 MP CK 0106",
 "judges": [
  "S.K. Palo",
  "S.K. Gangele"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2014-07-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "1990-05-08",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 354 (convicted by HC)",
  "IPC 376/511 (acquitted at trial)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "BSF Tekanpur Academy",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, BSF Tekanpur Academy"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 8,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Tekanpur girl, age 8"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "fine",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/606273/state-of-mp-vs-surendra-singh/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2015) CriLJ 763",
  "(2014) 3 JLJ 225",
  "(2014) 4 MPHT 144"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. On the night of 8-9 May 1990, BSF Head Constable, living upstairs in the same Tekanpur Academy quarter building, lured his 8-year-old neighbour upstairs on the pretext of opening a lock and sexually assaulted her. The trial court acquitted him under Sections 376/511 IPC on 8 April 1994 giving benefit of doubt over a contradictory medical re-examination. In the State's appeal under Section 378 CrPC, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held the trial court erred in recording a simpliciter acquittal as it was a clear-cut case of outraging the modesty of a minor girl, and that no fresh Section 354 charge was needed as it is a cognate offence under Section 222 CrPC. The Court set aside the acquittal, held him guilty under Section 354 IPC, and, noting almost 24 years had passed, imposed only a fine of Rs. 25,000 with six months' RI in default, issuing a non-bailable warrant as he remained absent.",
 "summary_verified": "On the night of 8-9 May 1990, BSF Head Constable, living upstairs in the same Tekanpur Academy quarter building, lured his 8-year-old neighbour upstairs on the pretext of opening a lock and sexually assaulted her. The trial court acquitted him under Sections 376/511 IPC on 8 April 1994 giving benefit of doubt over a contradictory medical re-examination. In the State's appeal under Section 378 CrPC, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held the trial court erred in recording a simpliciter acquittal as it was a clear-cut case of outraging the modesty of a minor girl, and that no fresh Section 354 charge was needed as it is a cognate offence under Section 222 CrPC. The Court set aside the acquittal, held him guilty under Section 354 IPC, and, noting almost 24 years had passed, imposed only a fine of Rs. 25,000 with six months' RI in default, issuing a non-bailable warrant as he remained absent.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, we set aside the judgment of acquittal and allow the appeal. We hold the accused/respondent [name withheld] guilty of offence u/s 354 of IPC.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP HC Division Bench set aside acquittal and convicted BSF Head Constable u/s 354 IPC for sexual assault on 8-year-old neighbour; fine Rs.25,000 given 24-year delay. Case no. per court-record header is Crl.A. 577/2000, not 108/1994 as agent cited.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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": "2014-07-24",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2015) CriLJ 763; (2014) 3 JLJ 225; (2014) 4 MPHT 144; (2014) 07 MP CK 0106",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}