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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0137",
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 "display_title": "Surat Man vs Kamal Dayani and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Surat Man vs Kamal Dayani and Ors.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Surat",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Surat",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vesu Police Station, Surat",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Surat Man vs Kamal Dayani and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "B.R. Gavai"
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 "judgment_date": "2024-09-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2023-12-11",
 "incident_year": 2023,
 "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_sc",
 "sections": [
  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Inspector",
   "unit": "Vesu Police Station, Surat",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2_gpt:unclear"
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   "key2_union": "yes",
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   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Surat man"
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 "sentence_type": "fine",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-holds-police-inspector-judicial-magistrate-guilty-of-contempt-for-arrest-remand-of-accused-violating-sc-order-265959"
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court held Police Inspector of Vesu police station, Surat, guilty of contempt for arresting Tusharbhai Shah on 11.12.2023 and obtaining his police-custody remand in defiance of the Court's subsisting interim anticipatory bail order dated 08.12.2023. By the guilt judgment dated 07.08.2024 the inspector and the remanding magistrate were both held guilty; the Court condemned the practice of seeking remand despite subsisting anticipatory bail. By the sentence order dated 02.09.2024 the magistrate's apology was accepted while the inspector was sentenced to a fine of Rs 25,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held Police Inspector of Vesu police station, Surat, guilty of contempt for arresting Tusharbhai Shah on 11.12.2023 and obtaining his police-custody remand in defiance of the Court's subsisting interim anticipatory bail order dated 08.12.2023. By the guilt judgment dated 07.08.2024 the inspector and the remanding magistrate were both held guilty; the Court condemned the practice of seeking remand despite subsisting anticipatory bail. By the sentence order dated 02.09.2024 the magistrate's apology was accepted while the inspector was sentenced to a fine of Rs 25,000.",
 "court_quote": "Insofar as Shri [name withheld], Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat (Contemnor-respondent No.4) is concerned, we sentence him to pay fine in the sum of Rs.25,000/-, to be deposited in the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association to be used for the purpose of Library within a period of one month from today.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC held PI [name withheld] guilty of contempt for arrest/remand in defiance of interim anticipatory bail; fined Rs 25,000.",
 "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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  {
   "date": "2024-09-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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