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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0059",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1320",
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 "display_title": "Indore Man and Others vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Indore Man and Others vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Indore",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station MIG, Indore; CID Headquarters, Bhopal",
 "court": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Indore Man and Others vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others",
 "case_number": "CRR No. 258 of 2026",
 "citation": "2026:MPHC-IND:15546",
 "judges": [
  "Gajendra Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-06-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2015-12-19",
 "incident_year": 2015,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding",
 "sections": [
  "306",
  "342",
  "193",
  "32",
  "176",
  "173",
  "197"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Police Station MIG, Indore",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Police Station MIG, Indore"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Police Station MIG, Indore",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Police Station MIG, Indore"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Police Station MIG, Indore",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Police Station MIG, Indore"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Indore man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47171834/",
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 "summary": "The High Court dismissed a criminal revision filed by three police officers challenging the trial court's rejection of their claim for sanction under Section 197 CrPC. The Court held that the officers subjected the deceased [name withheld] to physical assault and mental torture while in custody at Police Station MIG, Indore, leading to his death, and subsequently attempted to cover up the incident by failing to record his custody in the Roznamcha and making false CCTNS entries. The Court affirmed that the 'reasonable nexus' test for Section 197 protection was not satisfied as the alleged acts were not in discharge of official duty.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court dismissed a criminal revision filed by three police officers challenging the trial court's rejection of their claim for sanction under Section 197 CrPC. The Court held that the officers subjected the deceased [name withheld] to physical assault and mental torture while in custody at Police Station MIG, Indore, leading to his death, and subsequently attempted to cover up the incident by failing to record his custody in the Roznamcha and making false CCTNS entries. The Court affirmed that the 'reasonable nexus' test for Section 197 protection was not satisfied as the alleged acts were not in discharge of official duty.",
 "court_quote": "The above incident is not a result where revision petitioners were performing the duty to handle the violent mob and were justified in using the criminal force and exceeded their scope of use of force but it is a case where alleged use of force is when the deceased was in custody of the police in police station and there was no occasion to exercise the use of force or physical assault followed by various acts to cover up the incident.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "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",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial death",
   "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": "2026-06-16",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "2026:MPHC-IND:15546",
   "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",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47171834/",
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 "retracted": {
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 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}