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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0051",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1268",
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 "display_title": "District Police Constable (Driver) vs State of Madhya Pradesh",
 "display_title_redacted": "District Police Constable (Driver) vs State of Madhya Pradesh",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Burhanpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Burhanpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "District Police, Burhanpur",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "District Police Constable (Driver) vs State of Madhya Pradesh",
 "case_number": "WP No. 10511 of 2019",
 "citation": "2026:MPHC-JBP:50818",
 "judges": [
  "Deepak Khot"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-07-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2018-04-23",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 147",
  "IPC 148",
  "IPC 149",
  "IPC 294",
  "IPC 332",
  "IPC 333",
  "IPC 341",
  "IPC 353",
  "IPC 506-B"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable (Driver)",
   "unit": "District Police, Burhanpur",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (Driver), District Police, Burhanpur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "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/2026/07/17/santosh-solanki-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-687437.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-service-law-man-acquitted-of-brick-pelting-not-qualified-for-police-force-541706"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was selected as Constable (Driver) in Burhanpur and disclosed a criminal case in his attestation form, but his affidavit dated 23 April 2018 suppressed that his acquittal in the rioting/brick-pelting case was on benefit of doubt rather than honourable. The screening committee held him unsuitable for service and he was removed in November 2018; the departmental appeal was dismissed in November 2019. Applying the Avtar Singh objective test, the court held partial disclosure with suppression of the non-honourable acquittal amounts to moral turpitude under the State instructions. It held removal proportionate for a member of a disciplined force and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was selected as Constable (Driver) in Burhanpur and disclosed a criminal case in his attestation form, but his affidavit dated 23 April 2018 suppressed that his acquittal in the rioting/brick-pelting case was on benefit of doubt rather than honourable. The screening committee held him unsuitable for service and he was removed in November 2018; the departmental appeal was dismissed in November 2019. Applying the Avtar Singh objective test, the court held partial disclosure with suppression of the non-honourable acquittal amounts to moral turpitude under the State instructions. It held removal proportionate for a member of a disciplined force and dismissed the petition.",
 "court_quote": "The authority considering the same has found that such suppression in regard to acquittal does not fall within the category of clean or honourable acquittal and therefore, it is not expected from the member of the disciplined force to show such conduct and character to be a part of the said force.",
 "court_quote_para": "26",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Removal for suppressing non-honourable acquittal in attestation upheld.",
 "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": "2026-07-10",
   "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-JBP:50818",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/17/santosh-solanki-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-687437.pdf",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-service-law-man-acquitted-of-brick-pelting-not-qualified-for-police-force-541706",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-81-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}