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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0079",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1357",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Balodabazar-Bhatapara Man vs State of Chhattisgarh",
 "display_title_redacted": "Balodabazar-Bhatapara Man vs State of Chhattisgarh",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Balodabazar-Bhatapara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station City Kotwali, Balodabazar",
 "court": "High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Balodabazar-Bhatapara Man vs State of Chhattisgarh",
 "case_number": "CRMP No. 669 of 2026",
 "citation": "2026:CGHC:13121-DB",
 "judges": [
  "[name withheld]",
  "[name withheld]"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-03-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2025-04-29",
 "incident_year": 2025,
 "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 6 of Chhattisgarh Gambling (Prohibition) Act, 2022",
  "Article 226 Constitution of India"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Police Station City Kotwali, Balodabazar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Police Station City Kotwali, Balodabazar"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Investigating Officer",
   "role": "named_in_finding",
   "unit": "Police Station City Kotwali, Balodabazar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Investigating Officer, Police Station City Kotwali, Balodabazar"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Balodabazar-Bhatapara 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/121601686/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court quashed FIR No. 0425/2025 dated 29.04.2025 and chargesheet No. 453/2025 under Section 6 of Chhattisgarh Gambling (Prohibition) Act, 2022 against the petitioner, finding he was implicated solely on the custodial memorandum statement of co-accused [name withheld] recorded at 10:30 hours before the petitioner's arrest shown at 11:00 hours on 01.05.2025, with no recovery from petitioner. The Court held it indicates a mala fide exercise of power and abuse of process, noting prior clean acquittals, externment proceedings rejected, and a prior FIR quashed vide order dated 06.08.2025 in CRMP No. 1024/2022.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court quashed FIR No. 0425/2025 dated 29.04.2025 and chargesheet No. 453/2025 under Section 6 of Chhattisgarh Gambling (Prohibition) Act, 2022 against the petitioner, finding he was implicated solely on the custodial memorandum statement of co-accused [name withheld] recorded at 10:30 hours before the petitioner's arrest shown at 11:00 hours on 01.05.2025, with no recovery from petitioner. The Court held it indicates a mala fide exercise of power and abuse of process, noting prior clean acquittals, externment proceedings rejected, and a prior FIR quashed vide order dated 06.08.2025 in CRMP No. 1024/2022.",
 "court_quote": "The undisputed position which emerges from the record is that the present petitioner has been implicated in the crime in question solely on the basis of the memorandum statement of co-accused, namely [name withheld], recorded during police custody. It is well-settled that a memorandum or confessional statement of a co-accused, by itself, does not constitute substantive evidence and cannot be made the sole basis for implicating another accused.",
 "court_quote_para": "Paragraph 15-16",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "sections lists Section 482 CrPC; source excerpt cites Section 6 of Chhattisgarh Gambling (Prohibition) Act 2022 with Article 226, Section 262 BNSS / Section 482 (BNSS era), not 482 CrPC; officers lists generic Head Constable + Investigating Officer; source names one Head Constable by personal name (correctly redacted in data) and otherwise refers to investigating agency generally with mala fide finding",
 "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": "2026-03-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "adverse finding compensation",
   "source": "2026:CGHC:13121-DB",
   "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/121601686/",
   "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-ct-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-ct-hc-1",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}