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 "record_id": "CW-2017-0025",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Bhopal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bhopal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Vijay Kumar Shukla"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2017-05-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "1988-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 376"
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 14,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Bhopal girl, age 14"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28000019/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable, posted at Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal, was charge-sheeted in February 1988 for pursuing a 14-year-old girl, developing physical relations with her, and thereby causing her pregnancy and delivery of a child. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 376 IPC on 7 March 1992 as the prosecution failed to prove the prosecutrix was below 16, after which the department held a fresh enquiry and the Superintendent of Police, Bhopal dismissed him on 11 January 1993, affirmed by the DIG and DGP. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the victim's firm statement of forcible intercourse under threats, corroborated by her parents with no previous enmity, sustained the enquiry findings, and that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal applying the criminal standard of proof does not bar departmental action. The Court held involvement in a Section 376 case itself impaired the image of the disciplined police force, gave its stamp of approval to the dismissal, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable, posted at Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal, was charge-sheeted in February 1988 for pursuing a 14-year-old girl, developing physical relations with her, and thereby causing her pregnancy and delivery of a child. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 376 IPC on 7 March 1992 as the prosecution failed to prove the prosecutrix was below 16, after which the department held a fresh enquiry and the Superintendent of Police, Bhopal dismissed him on 11 January 1993, affirmed by the DIG and DGP. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the victim's firm statement of forcible intercourse under threats, corroborated by her parents with no previous enmity, sustained the enquiry findings, and that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal applying the criminal standard of proof does not bar departmental action. The Court held involvement in a Section 376 case itself impaired the image of the disciplined police force, gave its stamp of approval to the dismissal, and dismissed the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "I do not find any illegality and perversity of approach in the impugned order warranting interference of this Court in writ jurisdiction and the same being impregnable deserves to and are given stamp of approval of this Court.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP HC (Jabalpur) upheld dismissal of Mishrod PS constable for sexual exploitation of 14-year-old resulting in pregnancy; criminal acquittal on age-doubt held no bar to departmental action.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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": "2017-05-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28000019/",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-78-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}