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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0051",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1321",
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 "display_title": "Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Guna",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Myana Police Station; Jhagar Chowki",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 3450 of 2025",
 "citation": "2025 INSC 711",
 "judges": [
  "Vikram Nath",
  "Sandeep Mehta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-05-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2024-07-13",
 "incident_year": 2024,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "105",
  "115(2)",
  "3(5)",
  "120",
  "3(2)(v) SC/ST Act"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Town Inspector",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Myana Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Town Inspector, Myana Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Personnel",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Personnel, Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Guna man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Guna man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860967/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court transferred the investigation into the custodial death of [name withheld] to the CBI, directing that police officials found responsible be arrested within one month. The Court found that [name withheld] was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including hanging upside down, chilli powder, petrol, salt, and hot water, leading to his death. The sole eyewitness [name withheld] was illegally detained for over 24 hours and subsequently implicated in multiple false cases to coerce him. The Court observed that the local police investigation lacked credibility as allegations were against their own personnel, and even the post-mortem appeared influenced.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court transferred the investigation into the custodial death of [name withheld] to the CBI, directing that police officials found responsible be arrested within one month. The Court found that [name withheld] was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including hanging upside down, chilli powder, petrol, salt, and hot water, leading to his death. The sole eyewitness [name withheld] was illegally detained for over 24 hours and subsequently implicated in multiple false cases to coerce him. The Court observed that the local police investigation lacked credibility as allegations were against their own personnel, and even the post-mortem appeared influenced.",
 "court_quote": "The involvement of the police officials in the custodial death of [name withheld] is clearly borne out from the statement of the sole eye-witness [name withheld] and stands further corroborated during the magisterial inquiry. The victims' family tried to lodge the FIR immediately after the incident, but the local police officials prevented them from doing so. It is only after the magisterial inquiry was conducted that the FIR came to be registered wherein the offence of culpable homicide amounting to murder was omitted. Nearly eight months have passed since the FIR was registered but till date, not a single accused has been arrested.",
 "court_quote_para": "29",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.",
 "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": "Custodial death",
   "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": "2025-05-15",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "2025 INSC 711",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860967/",
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  "basis": null
 },
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 "retracted": {
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 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}