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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0224",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Deepar Man vs State of M.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Deepar Man vs State of M.P.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Datia",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Deepar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Deepar Police Station",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Gwalior",
 "case_title": "Deepar Man vs State of M.P.",
 "case_number": "M.Cr.C. No. 4578 of 2025",
 "citation": "2025:MPHC-GWL:8289; 2025 SCC OnLine MP 3174",
 "judges": [
  "G. S. Ahluwalia"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-04-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2017-09-24",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 147",
  "IPC 148",
  "IPC 149",
  "IPC 294",
  "IPC 336",
  "CrPC s.482",
  "Constitution of India Article 21"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Datia (DIG Bhopal at time of judgment)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.27,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.88,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police, Datia (DIG Bhopal at time of judgment)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Deepar man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 500000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mcrc45782025finalorder16-04-2025-597099.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-police-suppress-evidence-murder-trial-290237",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/04/19/mp-high-court-slaps-rs-5-lakh-fine-on-digbhopal-for-suppressing-evidence-in-murder-probe-scc-times/"
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 "summary": "In a Datia murder trial (ST 02/2018, Seondha) over the 2017 killing of Kailash, the trial court had directed preservation of call-detail and mobile-location records on 07.09.2018. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) found that then-SP [name withheld] received the records on 17.09.2018 yet deliberately suppressed them, got a false compliance reply filed before the trial court, and acted with mala fide intention to favour one side, violating the fundamental rights of free and fair investigation and trial. The Court directed [name withheld] to personally deposit Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation with the Principal Registrar within one month for disbursal by the trial court to the successful party, ordered the DGP to issue a departmental charge sheet within a month, and directed that the order be kept in his service record. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "In a Datia murder trial (ST 02/2018, Seondha) over the 2017 killing of Kailash, the trial court had directed preservation of call-detail and mobile-location records on 07.09.2018. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) found that then-SP [name withheld] received the records on 17.09.2018 yet deliberately suppressed them, got a false compliance reply filed before the trial court, and acted with mala fide intention to favour one side, violating the fundamental rights of free and fair investigation and trial. The Court directed [name withheld] to personally deposit Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation with the Principal Registrar within one month for disbursal by the trial court to the successful party, ordered the DGP to issue a departmental charge sheet within a month, and directed that the order be kept in his service record.",
 "court_quote": "Shri [name withheld], the then SP, Datia has tried to violate the fundamental rights of free and fair investigation as well as free and fair trial of atleast one of the parties.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP HC (Gwalior) held then-SP [name withheld] suppressed CDR records with mala fide intent in a murder trial, ordered him to personally deposit Rs 5 lakh compensation and directed DGP to issue DE charge sheet.",
 "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": "2025-04-16",
   "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": "2025:MPHC-GWL:8289; 2025 SCC OnLine MP 3174",
   "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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   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mcrc45782025finalorder16-04-2025-597099.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-police-suppress-evidence-murder-trial-290237",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/04/19/mp-high-court-slaps-rs-5-lakh-fine-on-digbhopal-for-suppressing-evidence-in-murder-probe-scc-times/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": false,
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 "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-009",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}