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 "record_id": "CW-2020-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0233",
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 "display_title": "Dhar Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dhar Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Dhar",
 "district_at_time": "Dhar",
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Bar, District Dhar",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Indore",
 "case_title": "Dhar Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "case_number": "WP No. 26923 of 2019",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. C. Sharma",
  "Shailendra Shukla"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2020-02-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2020,
 "incident_date": "2019-10-18",
 "incident_year": 2019,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment",
 "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art 226",
  "Constitution Art 21"
 ],
 "officers": [
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   "rank": "Sub-Divisional Officer (Police)",
   "unit": "Dhar district",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "no",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.8,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.45,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Sub-Divisional Officer (Police), Dhar district"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Police Station Bar, Dhar",
   "role": "named_only",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
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   "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": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station Bar, Dhar"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 68,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Dhar man, age 68"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46177798/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-hc-directs-state-to-pay-5l-to-man-detained-illegally-initiates-contempt-proceedings-against-police-authorities-read-judgment-152622"
 ],
 "summary": "On 18-10-2019 the SHO, PS Bar arrested 68-year-old Husan of Dhar on a parole-violation warrant meant for Husna, a life-convict step-brother who had died in 2016, and Husan was lodged in Central Jail Indore to serve another man's sentence. The State, through SDOP [name withheld]'s affidavit and same-day rojnamcha entries, insisted the arrested man was the convict. The Court ordered a fingerprint-based inquiry by the Principal Secretary (Home), which proved an innocent lookalike had languished in jail for four months. The Court held the detention illegal, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation, ordered contempt cases against the SDOP and the rojnamcha-entry makers, and directed biometric identification of all arrestees. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 18-10-2019 the SHO, PS Bar arrested 68-year-old H. of Dhar on a parole-violation warrant meant for Husna, a life-convict step-brother who had died in 2016, and H. was lodged in Central Jail Indore to serve another man's sentence. The State, through SDOP [name withheld]'s affidavit and same-day rojnamcha entries, insisted the arrested man was the convict. The Court ordered a fingerprint-based inquiry by the Principal Secretary (Home), which proved an innocent lookalike had languished in jail for four months. The Court held the detention illegal, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation, ordered contempt cases against the SDOP and the rojnamcha-entry makers, and directed biometric identification of all arrestees.",
 "court_quote": "State Government shall pay a compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- (Rupees Five Lakh Only) to the father of the petitioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "23",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary source verified: MP High Court (Indore Bench) Division Bench held 68-year-old tribal was arrested 18-10-2019 on a warrant meant for his deceased step-brother [name withheld] (ST 41/1976 convict, died 2016) and illegally detained in Central Jail Indore for four months; fingerprint inquiry by Principal Secretary (Home) proved mistaken identity. Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation, ordered immediate release, registered contempt cases against the SDOP (false affidavit) and the 18-10-2019 rojnamcha-entry makers, and mandated biometric identification on arrest. Accused-actors are police; outcome adverse_finding_compensation confirmed.",
 "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": "2020-02-10",
   "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 500,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "WP No. 26923 of 2019",
   "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46177798/",
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  },
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-hc-directs-state-to-pay-5l-to-man-detained-illegally-initiates-contempt-proceedings-against-police-authorities-read-judgment-152622",
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 "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-007",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}