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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0076",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1381",
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 "display_title": "Telangana Man vs The State of Telangana",
 "display_title_redacted": "Telangana Man vs The State of Telangana",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Telangana Police (FIR Nos. 8, 13 and 146 of 2025)",
 "court": "High Court for the State of Telangana",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court for the State of Telangana",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Telangana Man vs The State of Telangana",
 "case_number": "Criminal Petition Nos. 4905, 4903 and 8416 of 2025",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "N. Tukaramji"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-09-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "Section 176(1) of the BNSS"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Investigating officers",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Telangana Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Investigating officers, Telangana Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Telangana 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/25907023/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/police-action-against-social-media-posts-supreme-court-upholds-telangana-hc-safeguards"
 ],
 "summary": "The High Court examined three FIRs registered over social media posts mocking the ruling party on complaints by third parties. The High Court held that the posts were plainly political criticism and satire and disclosed no cognizable offence. The High Court held that continuation of the proceedings would amount to an abuse of process. The High Court quashed all three FIRs and directed detailed guidelines for police to follow before registering FIRs over speech, with a copy to the DGP.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court examined three FIRs registered over social media posts mocking the ruling party on complaints by third parties. The High Court held that the posts were plainly political criticism and satire and disclosed no cognizable offence. The High Court held that continuation of the proceedings would amount to an abuse of process. The High Court quashed all three FIRs and directed detailed guidelines for police to follow before registering FIRs over speech, with a copy to the DGP.",
 "court_quote": "continuation of proceedings would amount to an abuse of process.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 28",
 "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": "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": "2025-09-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court for the State of Telangana",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court for the State of Telangana recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "Criminal Petition Nos. 4905, 4903 and 8416 of 2025",
   "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/25907023/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/police-action-against-social-media-posts-supreme-court-upholds-telangana-hc-safeguards",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "swarm-verify-cop-tg-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-tg-hc-2",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}