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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0017",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0230",
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 "display_title": "Indore Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Indore Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Indore",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Indore",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Lasudiya Police Station",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Indore",
 "case_title": "Indore Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.",
 "case_number": "WP No. 55 of 2026",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Subodh Abhyankar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-04-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2025-12-29",
 "incident_year": 2025,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art 226"
 ],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Indore man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 10000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122291996/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-pulls-up-state-over-cctv-lapses-directs-compensation-in-custodial-violence-case-1586259",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-indore-police-commissionerate-police-atrocities-cases-532214",
  "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/2026/04/30/harsh-v-state-of-mp-2165885.pdf"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. In the early hours of 29.12.2025 the petitioner was picked up after a minor restaurant altercation in Indore, beaten by constables and [name withheld], and assaulted further inside Lasudiya Police Station in an area without CCTV coverage. The State denied assault and claimed the petitioner was taken to a camera-blind room used by women officers. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) held the missing visuals were not natural and drew an adverse inference against the delinquent officers, corroborated by injury photographs and witness statements, and awarded Rs. 10,000 compensation for the hardship. The Court also directed preservation of records and systemic CCTV and body-worn-camera measures for Indore police stations. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "In the early hours of 29.12.2025 the petitioner was picked up after a minor restaurant altercation in Indore, beaten by constables and [name withheld], and assaulted further inside Lasudiya Police Station in an area without CCTV coverage. The State denied assault and claimed the petitioner was taken to a camera-blind room used by women officers. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) held the missing visuals were not natural and drew an adverse inference against the delinquent officers, corroborated by injury photographs and witness statements, and awarded Rs. 10,000 compensation for the hardship. The Court also directed preservation of records and systemic CCTV and body-worn-camera measures for Indore police stations.",
 "court_quote": "This Court is of the considered opinion that non-availability of such visuals of an incident which took place near and also in the police station, is not natural and is enough to draw an adverse inference against the delinquent officers, which also substantiates the narration of events by the petitioner supported by the photographs of the injuries. It is also found that the statements of the petitioner's friends were also recorded in the brief enquiry, who have also admitted that the petitioner was assaulted by the police personnel.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP High Court (Indore) drew an adverse inference from missing CCTV footage, held custodial assault at Lasudiya police station established, and awarded Rs 10,000 compensation plus CCTV/body-camera directions.",
 "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 torture",
   "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": "2026-04-22",
   "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 10,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "WP No. 55 of 2026",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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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   "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-pulls-up-state-over-cctv-lapses-directs-compensation-in-custodial-violence-case-1586259",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-indore-police-commissionerate-police-atrocities-cases-532214",
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   "url": "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/2026/04/30/harsh-v-state-of-mp-2165885.pdf",
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 "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-004",
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