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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0045",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1267",
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 "display_title": "Lateri Police Head Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh",
 "display_title_redacted": "Lateri Police Head Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Vidisha",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Lateri",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Anandpur, Lateri, Vidisha",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": "Gwalior",
 "case_title": "Lateri Police Head Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh",
 "case_number": "WP No. 1336 of 2008",
 "citation": "2026:MPHC-GWL:5779",
 "judges": [
  "Anand Singh Bahrawat"
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 "judgment_date": "2026-02-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Anandpur, Lateri, Vidisha",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Police Station Anandpur, Lateri, Vidisha"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/02/19/babulal-deewan-v-state-of-mp-657074.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-dismisses-police-constables-plea-against-compulsory-retirement-says-mercy-is-an-act-of-grace-and-compassion-beyond-claims-of-right-523786"
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 "summary": "Head Constable, posted at PS Anandpur (Lateri, Vidisha), faced a complaint leading to a fact-finding inquiry, charge-sheet and full departmental enquiry in which the charges were held proved. The SP Vidisha dismissed him on 28 February 2002, the IG rejected his appeal in October 2002, and the State converted dismissal to compulsory retirement in a mercy petition in September 2007. The court held mercy is an act of grace beyond claims of right and the petitioner had no enforceable right to challenge the mercy order. It refused reinstatement and dismissed the petition as bereft of substance; the underlying misconduct charge is not specified in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Head Constable, posted at PS Anandpur (Lateri, Vidisha), faced a complaint leading to a fact-finding inquiry, charge-sheet and full departmental enquiry in which the charges were held proved. The SP Vidisha dismissed him on 28 February 2002, the IG rejected his appeal in October 2002, and the State converted dismissal to compulsory retirement in a mercy petition in September 2007. The court held mercy is an act of grace beyond claims of right and the petitioner had no enforceable right to challenge the mercy order. It refused reinstatement and dismissed the petition as bereft of substance; the underlying misconduct charge is not specified in the judgment.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the foregoing discussion and the facts and circumstances of the present case in their entirety, this Court is of the considered opinion that when State Government itself has shown mercy to the delinquent by imposing a lesser punishment, the present petition, being bereft of substance, is liable to be and is accordingly dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Compulsory retirement (mercy-modified dismissal) after proved charges upheld.",
 "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": "2026-02-13",
   "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": "2026:MPHC-GWL:5779",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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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",
   "corrections_applied": []
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