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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0218",
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 "display_title": "Bhind Man and Anr vs State of M.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bhind Man and Anr vs State of M.P.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Bhind",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bhind",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Bhind Police",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Gwalior",
 "case_title": "Bhind Man and Anr vs State of M.P.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 460 of 2004",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Vivek Agarwal",
  "G.S. Ahluwalia"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2018-05-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2003-01-25",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 364A",
  "Constitution of India Article 21",
  "Madhya Pradesh Dakaiti Aur Vyapharan Prabhavit Kshetra Adhiniyam 1981 s.11/13"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Investigating Officer",
   "unit": "Bhind Police",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:named_only",
    "key2:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "ledger_role": "named_only",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.88,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.04,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Investigating Officer, Bhind Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bhind man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bhind man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 600000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/58361786/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/mp-hc-directs-state-to-compensate-victims-of-malicious-implication-for-making-them-spend-more-than-a-decade-in-jail-read-judgment"
 ],
 "summary": "Appellants Bhure and Shripal were convicted under Section 364-A IPC and the MPDVPK Act by the Special Judge, Bhind, and spent 12 to 15 years in prison for alleged kidnapping for ransom. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) acquitted the appellants, finding the prosecution story fabricated in collusion between the complainant and the police to gain popularity through fake and imaginary encounters. Holding that the appellants' fundamental rights under Article 21 were deliberately and maliciously violated by police misconduct, the High Court directed the State of Madhya Pradesh to pay Rs. 3,00,000 compensation to each surviving appellant, with liberty to recover the amount from the erring persons. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Appellants Bhure and S. were convicted under Section 364-A IPC and the MPDVPK Act by the Special Judge, Bhind, and spent 12 to 15 years in prison for alleged kidnapping for ransom. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) acquitted the appellants, finding the prosecution story fabricated in collusion between the complainant and the police to gain popularity through fake and imaginary encounters. Holding that the appellants' fundamental rights under Article 21 were deliberately and maliciously violated by police misconduct, the High Court directed the State of Madhya Pradesh to pay Rs. 3,00,000 compensation to each surviving appellant, with liberty to recover the amount from the erring persons.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, it is held that as it has been found that the appellant was prosecuted with deliberate and malafide intention, so that the complainant may settle his scores, and the police also joined hands with the complainant so that it can gain popularity by fake and imaginary encounters with the miscreants, then the State must compensate the appellants for the utter violation of their fundamental rights as for no reason, they were compelled to remain in jail for such a long time.",
 "court_quote_para": "27",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madhya Pradesh High Court acquitted appellants after 12-15 years incarceration in fabricated abduction case and awarded Rs. 3 lakh compensation each for police misconduct.",
 "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": "2018-05-24",
   "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 600,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 460 of 2004",
   "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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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/mp-hc-directs-state-to-compensate-victims-of-malicious-implication-for-making-them-spend-more-than-a-decade-in-jail-read-judgment",
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWFALSEI-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}