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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0134",
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 "display_title": "Undhela (Matar) Police Police Inspector and Ors. vs State of Gujarat and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Undhela (Matar) Police Police Inspector and Ors. vs State of Gujarat and Ors.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Kheda",
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 "city_town": "Undhela (Matar)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Matar Police Station / SOG, Kheda",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
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 "case_title": "Undhela (Matar) Police Police Inspector and Ors. vs State of Gujarat and Ors.",
 "case_number": "R/Misc. Civil Application (for Contempt) No. 1067 of 2022",
 "citation": "Neutral Citation C/MCA/1067/2022",
 "judges": [
  "A. S. Supehia",
  "Gita Gopi"
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 "judgment_date": "2023-10-19",
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 "incident_date": "2022-10-04",
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 "category": "Custodial torture",
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  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971"
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   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Undhela man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
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 "sentence_type": "mixed",
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/67983953/",
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  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/gujarat-high-court-finds-4-policemen-guilty-contempt-of-court-publicly-flogging-muslim-men"
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 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court held four Kheda police personnel guilty of contempt for tying five detained men to a pole at Undhela village chowk on 4 October 2022 and publicly flogging them, in violation of the D. K. Basu guidelines. The Court found the men had been kept overnight at the SOG police station, beaten in public view in an act that was videographed and widely circulated, with arrest shown only that night. It rejected the unconditional apology and sentenced each contemner to 14 days' simple imprisonment with a Rs 2,000 fine. The sentence directions were stayed for three months to allow appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court held four Kheda police personnel guilty of contempt for tying five detained men to a pole at Undhela village chowk on 4 October 2022 and publicly flogging them, in violation of the D. K. Basu guidelines. The Court found the men had been kept overnight at the SOG police station, beaten in public view in an act that was videographed and widely circulated, with arrest shown only that night. It rejected the unconditional apology and sentenced each contemner to 14 days' simple imprisonment with a Rs 2,000 fine. The sentence directions were stayed for three months to allow appeal; any Supreme Court stay thereafter could not be independently verified in this session.",
 "court_quote": "We have already discussed the inhuman acts committed by the respondents on the complainants by violating the law declared by the Supreme Court. Looking to the over all facts and the manner, in which the incident has occurred and in light of the service rendered by the respondents in the Police department, in our considered opinion, the interest of justice would be served if the respondents are ordered sentence of undergoing simple imprisonment of 14 days and fine of Rs.2,000/- and in default, further simple imprisonment of 3 days.",
 "court_quote_para": "32",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC contempt conviction verified (14 days SI + Rs 2,000 fine each); HC stayed sentence 3 months; reported SC stay unverified.",
 "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": [
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   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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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   "date": "2023-10-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Neutral Citation C/MCA/1067/2022",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-01-23",
   "action_type": "Appeal pending",
   "status": "Pending",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "As of 23 January 2024, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld]); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.",
   "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending",
   "source": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-kheda-flogging-high-court-contempt-sentence-stay-proceedings-247428",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "date": "2024-01-23",
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-kheda-flogging-high-court-contempt-sentence-stay-proceedings-247428",
   "outcome": "pending_appeal"
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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",
   "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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