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 "record_id": "CW-2021-0022",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0795",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Resident v. [name withheld] (DCP) & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Resident v. [name withheld] (DCP) & Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "North West",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Maurya Enclave",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Resident v. [name withheld] (DCP) & Ors.",
 "case_number": "CONT.CAS(C) 480/2020 & CM APPL. 25054/2020",
 "citation": "2021 SCC OnLine Del 5574",
 "judges": [
  "Najmi Waziri"
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 "judgment_date": "2021-12-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2021,
 "incident_date": "2020-08-23",
 "incident_year": 2020,
 "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": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971",
  "CrPC s.41A",
  "IPC 406",
  "IPC 34"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "PS Maurya Enclave, Delhi Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Maurya Enclave, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.003,
 "compensation_inr": 15000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/1-rakesh-kumar-v-vijayanta-arya-7-dec-2021-412063.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/arrest-in-breach-of-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-delhi-high-court-sentences-police-officer-to-one-day-imprisonment-188694",
  "https://blog.scconline.gen.in/post/2022/01/05/arrest-incarceration-destroys-a-person-and-affects-innocent-relatives/",
  "https://sabrangindia.in/delhi-hc-sends-police-officer-prison-day-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines/"
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court held Delhi Police Sub-Inspector of PS Maurya Enclave guilty of criminal contempt for arresting petitioner [name withheld] on 23 August 2020 without serving Section 41A CrPC notice, in breach of the Supreme Court's Arnesh Kumar guidelines. The court found the arrest illegal since only Sections 406/34 IPC (maximum 3 years) were alleged, and the petitioner suffered 11 days incarceration before bail. The court rejected the officer's belated apology as showing no contrition and held his highhandedness violated the petitioner's Article 21 liberty. It sentenced him to one day simple imprisonment with Rs.2,000 fine and Rs.15,000 costs to the petitioner, keeping sentence in abeyance for two months to allow challenge. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court held Delhi Police Sub-Inspector of PS Maurya Enclave guilty of criminal contempt for arresting petitioner [name withheld] on 23 August 2020 without serving Section 41A CrPC notice, in breach of the Supreme Court's Arnesh Kumar guidelines. The court found the arrest illegal since only Sections 406/34 IPC (maximum 3 years) were alleged, and the petitioner suffered 11 days incarceration before bail. The court rejected the officer's belated apology as showing no contrition and held his highhandedness violated the petitioner's Article 21 liberty. It sentenced him to one day simple imprisonment with Rs.2,000 fine and Rs.15,000 costs to the petitioner, keeping sentence in abeyance for two months to allow challenge.",
 "court_quote": "The court has already held R-3 guilty of committing contempt of court. He arrested the petitioner in breach of directions passed by the Supreme Court in Arnesh Kumar Vs State of Bihar, Criminal Appeal No. 1277/2014.",
 "court_quote_para": "1",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC contempt conviction verified; SI sentenced to 1-day SI plus fine and costs for illegal arrest.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2021-12-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2021 SCC OnLine Del 5574",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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  {
   "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",
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