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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0046",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1270",
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 "display_title": "Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Datia",
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 "city_town": "Seondha",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Seondha",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": "Gwalior",
 "case_title": "Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others",
 "case_number": "WP No. 18398 of 2022",
 "citation": "2025:MPHC-GWL:20242",
 "judges": [
  "Ashish Shroti"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-09-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2019-11-05",
 "incident_year": 2019,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "M.P. Police Regulations Reg. 270(4)"
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   "unit": "Police Station Seondha, Datia",
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   "display": "Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia"
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   "unit": "Police Station Seondha, Datia",
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   "display": "Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia"
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 "anonymised": false,
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2022/WP/18398/WP_18398_2022_FinalOrder_03-09-2025.pdf",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constables and [name withheld], posted at Police Station Seondha, Datia, were named by villagers as facilitating long-running illegal sand mining and transportation at Mauja Kandarpura, confirmed by a joint SDOP-Mining Officer inspection on 5 November 2019. After suspension and a departmental enquiry, both were removed from service by order dated 2 August 2022. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the enquiry findings, based on eleven witnesses and the documentary record, were neither perverse nor based on no evidence, noting beat constables could not plausibly be unaware of long-running mining in their beat. The Court held the Regulation 270 revisional removal order legal and justified, upheld it, and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constables and [name withheld], posted at Police Station Seondha, Datia, were named by villagers as facilitating long-running illegal sand mining and transportation at Mauja Kandarpura, confirmed by a joint SDOP-Mining Officer inspection on 5 November 2019. After suspension and a departmental enquiry, both were removed from service by order dated 2 August 2022. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the enquiry findings, based on eleven witnesses and the documentary record, were neither perverse nor based on no evidence, noting beat constables could not plausibly be unaware of long-running mining in their beat. The Court held the Regulation 270 revisional removal order legal and justified, upheld it, and dismissed the petition.",
 "court_quote": "Keeping in view the aforesaid discussion of facts, this Court is of the considered opinion that the findings recorded by respondent no.2 against the petitioners cannot be said to be perverse and based on no evidence.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Removal of two beat constables for facilitating long-running illegal sand mining upheld; abuse of police position.",
 "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": "2025-09-03",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2025:MPHC-GWL:20242",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-81-008",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
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