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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0052",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1322",
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 "display_title": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Jabalpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mahila Thana, Jabalpur; Office of Superintendent of Police, Jabalpur",
 "court": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 28981 of 2024",
 "citation": "2025:MPHC-JBP:3856",
 "judges": [
  "G.S. Ahluwalia"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-01-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2024-09-20",
 "incident_year": 2024,
 "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": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "Article 226",
  "41A Cr.P.C."
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "SHO",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Mahila Thana, Jabalpur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Jabalpur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police, Jabalpur"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Jabalpur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158106960/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court found that the SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur illegally issued a Look Out Circular against the petitioner without any basis, resulting in his detention at Hyderabad International Airport despite a trial court order permitting him to travel abroad. The Court noted the SHO failed to withdraw the LOC even after the petitioner was granted bail and travel permission, and the SP failed to periodically review the LOC. The SHO was placed under suspension and a departmental enquiry was initiated. The Court strongly deprecated the conduct of the SP who failed to produce departmental enquiry records.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court found that the SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur illegally issued a Look Out Circular against the petitioner without any basis, resulting in his detention at Hyderabad International Airport despite a trial court order permitting him to travel abroad. The Court noted the SHO failed to withdraw the LOC even after the petitioner was granted bail and travel permission, and the SP failed to periodically review the LOC. The SHO was placed under suspension and a departmental enquiry was initiated. The Court strongly deprecated the conduct of the SP who failed to produce departmental enquiry records.",
 "court_quote": "It is further submitted that after having issued notice under Section 41-A of Cr.P.C. there was no occasion for the SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur, to have an apprehension that petitioner may flee away. Furthermore, after the bail was granted by the Trial Court therefore, the apprehension of fleeing away which might have been in the mind of SHO should have come to an end and thus she should have withdrawn the LOC but that was not done.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "The summary names the SHO of Mahila Thana, Jabalpur (an officer) in the summary field, which must be removed; Sections field is inaccurate: '226' is Article 226 of the Constitution (the writ jurisdiction, not a penal section) and '439' (bail) is not a section of this case; the relevant cited provisions are Article 226 and Section 41-A Cr.P.C.",
 "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": "2025-01-28",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "2025:MPHC-JBP:3856",
   "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)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158106960/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
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  "swarm-verify-cop-mp-hc"
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 "merged_case_id": "cop-mp-hc-3",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}