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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0655",
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 "display_title": "In Re v. [name withheld]",
 "display_title_redacted": "In Re v. [name withheld]",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Shahjahanpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kanth",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kanth Police Station",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "In Re v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "Contempt Application (Criminal) No. 5 of 2022",
 "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (AB) 382",
 "judges": [
  "Suneet Kumar",
  "Syed Waiz Mian"
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 "judgment_date": "2022-08-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 2022,
 "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": [
  "IPC 353",
  "IPC 504",
  "IPC 506"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Investigating Officer (In-charge)",
   "unit": "Kanth Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row"
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Investigating Officer (In-charge), Kanth Police Station"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kanth man"
  }
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://lawbeat.in/sites/default/files/2022-08/Arnesh%20Kumar%20Judgment.pdf",
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  "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-court-sentences-police-officer-14-day-imprisonment-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/08/24/allahabad-high-court-grants-14-days-imprisonment-to-investigating-officer-for-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-in-contempt/"
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 "summary": "Investigating Officer, In-charge of Kanth Police Station (Shahjahanpur), served a Section 41-A CrPC notice in a case under Sections 353/504/506 IPC but wilfully recorded in the general diary that the accused declined its terms, arresting him in deliberate circumvention of the Arnesh Kumar mandate; the Magistrate refused remand and made a contempt reference. The Division Bench rejected his qualified apology and held him guilty of contempt for imposing himself over and above the law. He was sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine, kept in abeyance for 60 days to prefer a Section 19 appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "Investigating Officer, In-charge of Kanth Police Station (Shahjahanpur), served a Section 41-A CrPC notice in a case under Sections 353/504/506 IPC but wilfully recorded in the general diary that the accused declined its terms, arresting him in deliberate circumvention of the Arnesh Kumar mandate; the Magistrate refused remand and made a contempt reference. The Division Bench rejected his qualified apology and held him guilty of contempt for imposing himself over and above the law. He was sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine, kept in abeyance for 60 days to prefer a Section 19 appeal.",
 "court_quote": "The misleading entry in the GD was made willfully and deliberately with sole purpose to bypass the mandate in Arnesh Kumar (supra), in order to arrest the accused. The contemnor, in the circumstances, has circumvent the mandate which was binding upon him.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC contempt conviction verified via judgment PDF text and 3+ reports; 14 days SI + fine for bypassing Arnesh Kumar.",
 "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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   "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": "2022-08-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Allahabad High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2022 LiveLaw (AB) 382",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Official source added: Allahabad High Court order in Contempt Application (Criminal) No. 5 of 2022 dated 18.8.2022 (copy hosted by LawBeat): Kanth Police Station investigating officer sentenced to 14 days' simple imprisonment and Rs 1,000 fine, sentence kept in abeyance 60 days."
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  {
   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/08/24/allahabad-high-court-grants-14-days-imprisonment-to-investigating-officer-for-violating-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-in-contempt/",
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