{ "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "slug": "madhya-pradesh", "count": 57, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/madhya-pradesh", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1958-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1242", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Madhya Bharat Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Madhya Bharat", "display_title_redacted": "Madhya Bharat Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Madhya Bharat", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Guna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Guna", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Madhya Bharat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Bharat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Madhya Bharat Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Madhya Bharat", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 1959 MP 43; (1959) 2 LLJ 187; 1959 MPLJ 423", "judges": [ "H.R. Krishnan", "A.H. Khan" ], "judgment_date": "1958-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1958, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Guna district, Madhya Bharat Police", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Guna district, Madhya Bharat Police" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/23931/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/raghunath-singh-vs-state-of-madhya-bharat-on-18-august-1958" ], "summary": "The Madhya Bharat High Court (now Madhya Pradesh High Court) dismissed the Article 226 petition of Sub-Inspector of Guna district, sustaining his dismissal from service of 2 June 1953. The SP Guna had enquired into 18 counts of corruption and bribery and recommended dismissal, which the DIG Northern Range imposed after accepting findings on 7 charges; the IG had dismissed the departmental appeal. The Court held the DIG competent after the 1948 merger, found no violation of Article 311(1) and no fatal inquiry defect, and dismissed the application with costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madhya Bharat High Court (now Madhya Pradesh High Court) dismissed the Article 226 petition of Sub-Inspector of Guna district, sustaining his dismissal from service of 2 June 1953. The SP Guna had enquired into 18 counts of corruption and bribery and recommended dismissal, which the DIG Northern Range imposed after accepting findings on 7 charges; the IG had dismissed the departmental appeal. The Court held the DIG competent after the 1948 merger, found no violation of Article 311(1) and no fatal inquiry defect, and dismissed the application with costs.", "court_quote": "The result is that the application is without force. The rulings reported in AIR 1956 Madh-B. 259 and AIR 1957 MP 128, the principles of which, I accept, have no application to the present case.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ; corruption-based dismissal of SI sustained.", "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": "1958-08-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Bharat High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Bharat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1959 MP 43; (1959) 2 LLJ 187; 1959 MPLJ 423", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/23931/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/raghunath-singh-vs-state-of-madhya-bharat-on-18-august-1958", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-116" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-73-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1965-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1240", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Madhya Pradesh Police Constable and others v. State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Madhya Pradesh Police Constable and others v. State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Jabalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jabalpur", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Madhya Pradesh Police Constable and others v. State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 156 of 1963", "citation": "AIR 1966 SC 945; (1966) 2 SCR 822", "judges": [ "J.R. Mudholkar", "A.K. Sarkar", "R.S. Bachawat" ], "judgment_date": "1965-11-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1965, "incident_date": "1958-08-01", "incident_year": 1958, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 170", "IPC 342", "IPC 392" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Rewa, Madhya Pradesh Police", "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, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Jabalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1713903/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=005691113000&Title=JAGAT-BAHADUR-Vs.-STATE-OF-MADHYA-PRADESH" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court upheld the Madhya Pradesh High Court's 8 February 1963 reversal of acquittal of police constable [name withheld], who while on leave robbed complainant [name withheld] of a gold mohar at Jabalpur in August 1958 wearing a head-constable's uniform and posing as an investigating officer. The convictions under ss.170, 342 and 392 IPC were left intact. The Court interfered only with quantum, holding an appellate court cannot impose more than the trial First Class Magistrate could have, and capped the s.392 term at two years' RI. The concurrent terms were one year's RI (s.170), six months' RI (s.342) and two years' RI (s.392). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court upheld the Madhya Pradesh High Court's 8 February 1963 reversal of acquittal of police constable [name withheld], who while on leave robbed complainant [name withheld] of a gold mohar at Jabalpur in August 1958 wearing a head-constable's uniform and posing as an investigating officer. The convictions under ss.170, 342 and 392 IPC were left intact. The Court interfered only with quantum, holding an appellate court cannot impose more than the trial First Class Magistrate could have, and capped the s.392 term at two years' RI. The concurrent terms were one year's RI (s.170), six months' RI (s.342) and two years' RI (s.392).", "court_quote": "The High Court to which an appeal was preferred by the State Government set aside the acquittal and convicted the appellant of each of these offences.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC upheld HC's reversal-of-acquittal convictions of constable for robbery in uniform.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1966 SC 945; (1966) 2 SCR 822", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1965-11-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1966 SC 945; (1966) 2 SCR 822", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1713903/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=005691113000&Title=JAGAT-BAHADUR-Vs.-STATE-OF-MADHYA-PRADESH", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-116" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-73-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1976-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0817", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Guna Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Guna Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Guna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Guna district police", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Guna Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Second Appeal No. 133 of 1973", "citation": "AIR 1977 MP 13; 1976 MPLJ 848", "judges": [ "Shiv Dayal Shrivastava, C.J.", "C. M. Lodha", "C. Kondaiah" ], "judgment_date": "1976-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1976, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 330", "IPC 331", "IPC 323", "Constitution Art. 311" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Guna district police", "role": "convicted", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Guna district police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": null, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/928137/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/588567/dinkarrao-gangaram-najgarh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-madhya-pradesh-respondent/" ], "summary": "A Full Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior) on 15 September 1976 dismissed the second appeal of Sub-Inspector, upholding his dismissal from the police force. The court recorded that the SI, tried under Sections 330/331 IPC and convicted only under Section 323 by the trial court on 26 February 1954, was convicted by the High Court under Section 330 IPC on 6 November 1957 and sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment plus a Rs. 200 fine. The Inspector-General of Police dismissed him with effect from the conviction date under Rule 246 of the Police Regulations. The Full Bench held that a rigorous-imprisonment sentence imposed by the High Court falls squarely under Rule 246 and that a conviction-consequential dismissal under the second proviso to Article 311(2) needs no departmental inquiry. The judgment gives no details of the underlying custodial incident beyond the charge of hurt to extort a confession. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Full Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior) on 15 September 1976 dismissed the second appeal of Sub-Inspector, upholding his dismissal from the police force. The court recorded that the SI, tried under Sections 330/331 IPC and convicted only under Section 323 by the trial court on 26 February 1954, was convicted by the High Court under Section 330 IPC on 6 November 1957 and sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment plus a Rs. 200 fine. The Inspector-General of Police dismissed him with effect from the conviction date under Rule 246 of the Police Regulations. The Full Bench held that a rigorous-imprisonment sentence imposed by the High Court falls squarely under Rule 246 and that a conviction-consequential dismissal under the second proviso to Article 311(2) needs no departmental inquiry. The judgment gives no details of the underlying custodial incident beyond the charge of hurt to extort a confession.", "court_quote": "The High Court convicted the appellant u/s 330, I.P.C. and sentenced him to 3 months' rigorous imprisonment in addition to fine of Rs. 200.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Full Bench judgment verified via mirror; s.330 IPC conviction and dismissal 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": "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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1976-09-15", "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": "AIR 1977 MP 13; 1976 MPLJ 848", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/928137/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/588567/dinkarrao-gangaram-najgarh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-madhya-pradesh-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-64" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-33-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1990-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0513", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Narmadapuram Man and Others v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Narmadapuram Man and Others v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Narmadapuram", "district_at_time": "Hoshangabad", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Madhya Pradesh Police (court escort party)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Narmadapuram Man and Others v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "(1990) 3 SCC 119; 1990 SCR (2) 871", "judges": [ "S. R. Pandian", "K. Jayachandra Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1990-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1990, "incident_date": "1989-04-22", "incident_year": 1989, "category": "Protest policing", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": true, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Narmadapuram man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Narmadapuram man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1745823/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court held the police escort party unjustly and unreasonably handcuffed petitioners 1 and 2, social workers of the Kisan Adivasi Sangathan convicted to one month simple imprisonment for a peaceful dharna, during transit to court on 22 April 1989, rejecting the escort justification under MP Police Regulation 465. The Court directed the Madhya Pradesh Government to take appropriate action against the erring escort party and to enquire into the petitioners detention beyond their sentence. Allegations of torture and abuse were held not proved, and no compensation was awarded by the Court.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held the police escort party unjustly and unreasonably handcuffed petitioners 1 and 2, social workers of the Kisan Adivasi Sangathan convicted to one month simple imprisonment for a peaceful dharna, during transit to court on 22 April 1989, rejecting the escort justification under MP Police Regulation 465. The Court directed the Madhya Pradesh Government to take appropriate action against the erring escort party and to enquire into the petitioners detention beyond their sentence. Allegations of torture and abuse were held not proved, and no compensation was awarded by the Court.", "court_quote": "It is most painful to note that the petitioners 1 and 2 who staged a 'dharna' for public cause and voluntarily submitted themselves for arrest and who had no tendency to escape had been subjected to humiliation by being handcuffed which act of the escort party is against all norms of decency and which is in utter violation of the principle underlying Article 21 of the Constitution of India. So we strongly condemn this kind of conduct of the escort party arbitrarily and unreasonably humiliating the citizens of the country with obvious motive of pleasing 'some-one'.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Unjust handcuffing held proved; action against escort party plus over-detention enquiry directed.", "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": "Protest policing", "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": "1990-05-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered compensation in an amount stated in the judgment.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1990) 3 SCC 119; 1990 SCR (2) 871", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1745823/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-32" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1993-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0818", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mhow Man v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mhow Man v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Indore", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mhow", "police_station_or_unit": "Mhow Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mhow Man v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1994 MPLJ 65; 1995 ACJ 383", "judges": [ "V. D. Gyani" ], "judgment_date": "1993-08-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1993, "incident_date": "1992-08-19", "incident_year": 1992, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 387", "IPC 457", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": 28, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mhow man, age 28" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/710578/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "On 21 August 1993 the Madhya Pradesh High Court allowed the Article 226 petition of Abdul Ghaffar, whose son [name withheld] was picked up by Mhow police on the night of 15 August 1992, shown arrested only on 18 August 1992 in a Section 457 IPC case, and found dead with multiple injuries in the Civil Hospital mortuary on 19 August 1992. The court ordered registration of offences under Sections 302 and 387 IPC with investigation in accordance with law, and deprecated the five autopsy doctors for withholding the cause of death before the court summoned the viscera report. Relying on the Rudul Shah line of cases, the court awarded Rs. 1,00,000 as exemplary compensation payable by the State, recoverable from those found responsible, plus Rs. 2,500 counsel's fee. Individual officers were not named; identification was left to the ordered investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 21 August 1993 the Madhya Pradesh High Court allowed the Article 226 petition of Abdul Ghaffar, whose son [name withheld] was picked up by Mhow police on the night of 15 August 1992, shown arrested only on 18 August 1992 in a Section 457 IPC case, and found dead with multiple injuries in the Civil Hospital mortuary on 19 August 1992. The court ordered registration of offences under Sections 302 and 387 IPC with investigation in accordance with law, and deprecated the five autopsy doctors for withholding the cause of death before the court summoned the viscera report. Relying on the Rudul Shah line of cases, the court awarded Rs. 1,00,000 as exemplary compensation payable by the State, recoverable from those found responsible, plus Rs. 2,500 counsel's fee. Individual officers were not named; identification was left to the ordered investigation.", "court_quote": "It is deeply regrettable that a man be put to death unjustly in order to preserve the order, dignity and tranquillity of the state - a state preservable only at such a cost would not be worth preserving.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Full judgment text read; custodial death found, FIR and Rs.1 lakh compensation ordered.", "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 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": "1993-08-21", "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 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1994 MPLJ 65; 1995 ACJ 383", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/710578/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-64" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-33-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1995-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0216", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Neemuch", "district_at_time": "Mandsaur", "city_town": "Rampura", "police_station_or_unit": "Rampura Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 217 of 1993", "citation": "(1995) 4 SCC 262", "judges": [ "A.S. Anand", "M.K. Mukherjee" ], "judgment_date": "1995-05-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": "1981-10-13", "incident_year": 1981, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 34", "IPC 201", "IPC 342" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Shyamsunder Trivedi", "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Shyamsunder Trivedi", "display": "Shyamsunder Trivedi (Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Ram Naresh Shukla", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ram Naresh Shukla", "display": "Ram Naresh Shukla (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Rajaram Mishra", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rajaram Mishra", "display": "Rajaram Mishra (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Ganniuddin", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Rampura Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.89, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ganniuddin", "display": "Ganniuddin (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rampura man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": 110000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/838507/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Rampura man was brought to Rampura Police Station for interrogation on October 13, 1981, where he was subjected to brutal custodial torture and died of multiple traumatic injuries. The police attempted to screen the offence by creating false roznamcha entries and attempting to cremate the corpse as an unclaimed body until local bar members and villagers intervened. Setting aside the trial court acquittals and partial High Court acquittal, the Supreme Court convicted Sub-Inspector Shyamsunder Trivedi and three other police officers under Sections 304 Part II read with 34, 201, and 342 of the IPC. The Court held that when custodial death occurs, a presumption arises against the police custodians, sentencing Trivedi to two years RI plus Rs. 50,000 fine and the other three officers to one year RI plus Rs. 20,000 fine each, with all fines directed to be paid as compensation to the victim's heirs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Rampura man was brought to Rampura Police Station for interrogation on October 13, 1981, where he was subjected to brutal custodial torture and died of multiple traumatic injuries. The police attempted to screen the offence by creating false roznamcha entries and attempting to cremate the corpse as an unclaimed body until local bar members and villagers intervened. Setting aside the trial court acquittals and partial High Court acquittal, the Supreme Court convicted Sub-Inspector Shyamsunder Trivedi and three other police officers under Sections 304 Part II read with 34, 201, and 342 of the IPC. The Court held that when custodial death occurs, a presumption arises against the police custodians, sentencing Trivedi to two years RI plus Rs. 50,000 fine and the other three officers to one year RI plus Rs. 20,000 fine each, with all fines directed to be paid as compensation to the victim's heirs.", "court_quote": "Generally speaking, it would be police officials alone who can only explain the circumstances in which a person in their custody had died.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court reversed acquittals and convicted four police personnel under IPC 304 Part II/34, 201, 342 for custodial death of a Rampura man, ordering fines paid to victim's heirs.", "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 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": "1995-05-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(1995) 4 SCC 262", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/838507/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-004", "officers_named_public": 4, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1245", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gwalior Police Constable vs State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Gwalior Police Constable vs State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gwalior", "police_station_or_unit": "8th Battalion, Special Armed Force (SAF), Gwalior", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gwalior Police Constable vs State of M.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 573 of 1989", "citation": "(2001) 1 MPHT 263; (2000) 06 MP CK 0025", "judges": [ "A.K. Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "2000-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1982-07-23", "incident_year": 1982, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 307" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "8th Battalion, SAF, Gwalior", "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, 8th Battalion, SAF, Gwalior" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gwalior man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 4, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/589873/raj-dhar-vs-state-of-mp/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "On the night of 23 July 1982, SAF Constable left his Quarter Guard duty post in Gwalior with his service.303 rifle and shot his neighbour, causing a firearm injury the Court noted was dangerous to life. The trial court convicted him under Section 307 IPC and imposed four years' rigorous imprisonment. The High Court held that the eyewitness account of the injured man's wife, corroborated by the appellant's absence from duty, the shortage of service cartridges and a recovered.303 cartridge, proved the charge despite the injured witness turning hostile and the missing ballistic report. The Court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, observing that the investigating agency had sided with the accused policeman throughout.", "summary_verified": "On the night of 23 July 1982, SAF Constable left his Quarter Guard duty post in Gwalior with his service.303 rifle and shot his neighbour, causing a firearm injury the Court noted was dangerous to life. The trial court convicted him under Section 307 IPC and imposed four years' rigorous imprisonment. The High Court held that the eyewitness account of the injured man's wife, corroborated by the appellant's absence from duty, the shortage of service cartridges and a recovered.303 cartridge, proved the charge despite the injured witness turning hostile and the missing ballistic report. The Court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, observing that the investigating agency had sided with the accused policeman throughout.", "court_quote": "In the result the appeal is dismissed. The conviction and sentence imposed upon the appellant is affirmed.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; SAF constable's s.307 conviction and 4-year sentence affirmed (off-duty shooting, qualifies literally).", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2001) 1 MPHT 263; (2000) 06 MP CK 0025", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2000-06-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2001) 1 MPHT 263; (2000) 06 MP CK 0025", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/589873/raj-dhar-vs-state-of-mp/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-74-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0726", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sheopur Kalan Man v. Govt. of M.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Sheopur Kalan Man v. Govt. of M.P. and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Sheopur", "district_at_time": "Morena", "city_town": "Sheopur Kalan", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Sheopur Kalan; SDM Sheopur Kalan", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Sheopur Kalan Man v. Govt. of M.P. and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "2001(3)MPHT105", "judges": [ "S.S. Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2001-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1997-01-28", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Divisional Magistrate", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Sheopur Kalan", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "history:conviction_set_aside" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.43, "jev_p_culpable": 0.76, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "conviction_set_aside", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sheopur Kalan" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Town Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Sheopur Kalan", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "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": "Town Inspector, Sheopur Kalan" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sheopur Kalan man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 25000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/811135/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench, Justice S.S. Jha) awarded Rs 25,000 jointly and severally against the State and SDM [name withheld] for a Sheopur Kalan man's illegal detention from 28 to 30 January 1997. Arrested on 27 January 1997 in a land-dispute case and bailed by the ACJM on 28 January, the petitioner was instead shown freshly arrested under s.151 CrPC, his bail rejected by the SDM on a substituted order-sheet, and kept in jail till 30 January. The Court held the Town Inspector could not invoke s.151 once the accused was already arrested for substantive offences, found the SDM's malafides and record manipulation apparent, ordered an enquiry against the SDM with recovery, costs on the SDM, and preventive directions via the Chief Secretary. Later proceedings: on 10 November 2010, the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Division Bench (Gwalior) set aside the conviction/order concerning [name withheld], [name withheld]; the findings against the remaining officers stand as recorded in this judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench, Justice S.S. Jha) awarded Rs 25,000 jointly and severally against the State and SDM [name withheld] for a Sheopur Kalan man's illegal detention from 28 to 30 January 1997. Arrested on 27 January 1997 in a land-dispute case and bailed by the ACJM on 28 January, the petitioner was instead shown freshly arrested under s.151 CrPC, his bail rejected by the SDM on a substituted order-sheet, and kept in jail till 30 January. The Court held the Town Inspector could not invoke s.151 once the accused was already arrested for substantive offences, found the SDM's malafides and record manipulation apparent, ordered an enquiry against the SDM with recovery, costs on the SDM, and preventive directions via the Chief Secretary.", "court_quote": "Respondent No. 4 Town Inspector has also acted beyond his jurisdiction after registering the case for substantive offence and for similar offence registering a case under Section 151, Cr.P.C. The act of respondent No. 2 the Sub-Divisional Magistrate in changing the order-sheets demonstrates his vicious mind and it appears that the respondent No, 2 is capable of manipulating the records of the Court.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC order verified on Indian Kanoon; Rs 25,000 joint award, SDM malafide + s.151 illegality match.", "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": "2001-03-31", "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 25,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2001(3)MPHT105", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court, Division Bench (Gwalior)", "date": "2010-11-10", "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/578429/suresh-kumar-sharma-appellant-hash-durgalal-vijay-and-others-respondent/", "outcome": "conviction_set_aside" } ], "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/811135/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-53" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-083", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1318", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ujjain Man v. State of M.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ujjain Man v. State of M.P. and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Ujjain", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ujjain", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Madhav Nagar", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ujjain Man v. 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Commissioner and magisterial enquiries found criminal negligence: a privately purchased kerosene container and matchbox left accessible in the station enabled the death, and detention without arrest was illegal. The Court held the State vicariously liable under Article 21, awarded Rs 1 lakh compensation (Rs 80,000 in fixed deposit till the minor's majority), and left the State free to recover from the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Dipak Misra J.) allowed in part a writ by 3.5-year-old Richa Jethani over the death of her father [name withheld], detained without formal arrest at Police Station Madhav Nagar, Ujjain from 29 February 2000 and found burnt at the station on the midnight of 2 March 2000. Commissioner and magisterial enquiries found criminal negligence: a privately purchased kerosene container and matchbox left accessible in the station enabled the death, and detention without arrest was illegal. The Court held the State vicariously liable under Article 21, awarded Rs 1 lakh compensation (Rs 80,000 in fixed deposit till the minor's majority), and left the State free to recover from the erring officials.", "court_quote": "On proper appreciation of the aforesaid report it rings as a bell that there was total unconcern, negligence and dereliction on the part of the concerned police officials as a result of which a Ujjain man could commit suicide.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 1 lakh for custodial death by negligence; recovery from erring officials permitted.", "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 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": "2002-07-26", "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 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2002) 07 MP CK 0067", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/588775/ku-richa-jethani-appellant-hash-state-of-mp-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-116" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-74-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1243", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh v. Indar Police Station House Officer and others", "display_title_redacted": "State of Madhya Pradesh v. Indar Police Station House Officer and others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Shivpuri", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Indar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Indar", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh v. 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An Indar man was illegally detained without record from 8 October 1983, given electric shocks on his scrotum to extort a confession, released on 11 October 1983 and died on 13 October 1983. Each officer received five years' RI with Rs 5,000 fine under s.304 Part II IPC and three years' RI under s.330 IPC. The Supreme Court (9 March 2011, Crl.A. Nos. 581-584 of 2003) affirmed, holding the death a direct consequence of inexcusable and inhuman torture by the police; HC full text verified via the SC record. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) on 1 August 2002 allowed the State's appeal against acquittal and convicted five Police Station Indar personnel for custodial torture causing the death of theft suspect [name withheld]. An Indar man was illegally detained without record from 8 October 1983, given electric shocks on his scrotum to extort a confession, released on 11 October 1983 and died on 13 October 1983. Each officer received five years' RI with Rs 5,000 fine under s.304 Part II IPC and three years' RI under s.330 IPC. The Supreme Court (9 March 2011, Crl.A. Nos. 581-584 of 2003) affirmed, holding the death a direct consequence of inexcusable and inhuman torture by the police; HC full text verified via the SC record.", "court_quote": "The evidence on the record clearly shows that death of an Indar man was a direct consequence of the inexcusable and inhuman torture by the police.", "court_quote_para": "32", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC reversed acquittal, convicted 5 officers for custodial death; affirmed by SC 2011 (HC text via SC record).", "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 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": "2002-08-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 79 of 1990", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.legalauthority.in/amp/judgement/haricharan-vs-state-of-m-p-8490", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "http://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/announcement.php?WID=696", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-116" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-74-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1246", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kankda Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kankda Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Dhar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kankda", "police_station_or_unit": "District police, Dhar", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Kankda Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 207 of 1999", "citation": "(2003) ILR (MP) 391; (2003) 1 MPHT 56; (2003) 1 MPLJ 399; (2002) 09 MP CK 0021", "judges": [ "S.L. Kochar", "S.B. Sakrikar" ], "judgment_date": "2002-09-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1993-03-11", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "MP Police Regulations Reg. 214(vi)", "MP Police Regulations Reg. 221", "MP Civil Services (CCA) Rules 1966 R. 18" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "District Dhar", "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": "Head Constable, District Dhar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "District Dhar", "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, District Dhar" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kankda man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kankda man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/579308/rameshchandra-vs-state-of-mp-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Head Constable and Constable of Dhar district faced departmental charges that [name withheld] demanded Rs 5,000 from a village Kankda informant over a stray buffalo, and when refused went to the village on 11 March 1993 and severely beat the informant and his brother [name withheld], then fabricated Section 102 CrPC proceedings to cover up. The Superintendent of Police, Dhar removed [name withheld] from service on 30 April 1994, and his appeal, representation and Tribunal petition all failed. The High Court held the SP had jurisdiction under Regulation 221, the SP's order amounted to a valid common-proceedings order satisfying Rule 18, and declined any indulgence on quantum since the corruption charges stood proved against a police Head Constable. The Court dismissed the writ petition, leaving the removal from service intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable and Constable of Dhar district faced departmental charges that [name withheld] demanded Rs 5,000 from a village Kankda informant over a stray buffalo, and when refused went to the village on 11 March 1993 and severely beat the informant and his brother [name withheld], then fabricated Section 102 CrPC proceedings to cover up. The Superintendent of Police, Dhar removed [name withheld] from service on 30 April 1994, and his appeal, representation and Tribunal petition all failed. The High Court held the SP had jurisdiction under Regulation 221, the SP's order amounted to a valid common-proceedings order satisfying Rule 18, and declined any indulgence on quantum since the corruption charges stood proved against a police Head Constable. The Court dismissed the writ petition, leaving the removal from service intact.", "court_quote": "This Court also does not feel to show any indulgence on the question of quantum of punishment looking to the charges of corruption found proved in the enquiry against the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; removal of Head Constable upheld, corruption charges held proved.", "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": "2002-09-30", "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": "(2003) ILR (MP) 391; (2003) 1 MPHT 56; (2003) 1 MPLJ 399; (2002) 09 MP CK 0021", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/579308/rameshchandra-vs-state-of-mp-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-74-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0819", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. Banda Woman & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. Banda Woman & Anr.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Sagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Banda", "police_station_or_unit": "Banda police", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. Banda Woman & Anr.", "case_number": null, "citation": "I (2006) ACC 405", "judges": [ "S. P. Khare" ], "judgment_date": "2003-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1989-12-26", "incident_year": 1989, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "CPC s.96", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 300" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Banda woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Banda woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 75000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1040449/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56097929e4b014971133c71f", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/577972/state-of-madhya-pradesh-and-another-vs-shantibai-and-another/" ], "summary": "Replace final sentence with the recorded police version: defendants' case was that students and anti-social elements resorted to violence, so police fired in the air without aiming at anyone to protect public and government property. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Replace final sentence with the recorded police version: defendants' case was that students and anti-social elements resorted to violence, so police fired in the air without aiming at anyone to protect public and government property.", "court_quote": "The house of the plaintiffs was just at a 10 ft. height from the ground and, therefore, it is clear that so far as the plaintiffs are concerned, the act of the police officer was negligent. This negligence was qua the plaintiffs.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment corroborated across 4 mirrors; negligence finding and decree confirmed on appeal.", "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": "2003-11-27", "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 75,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "I (2006) ACC 405", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1040449/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56097929e4b014971133c71f", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/577972/state-of-madhya-pradesh-and-another-vs-shantibai-and-another/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-64" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-33-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0217", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhopal Police personnel and others vs State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Bhopal Police personnel and others vs State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Bhopal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhopal", "police_station_or_unit": "Shahjahanabad Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhopal Police personnel and others vs State of M.P.", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 919 of 1999", "citation": "AIR 2005 SC 402", "judges": [ "Arijit Pasayat", "C.K. Thakker" ], "judgment_date": "2004-11-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": "1984-06-19", "incident_year": 1984, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 330", "IPC 201", "Constitution of India Article 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Gulab Singh Chaudhury", "rank": null, "unit": "Shahjahanabad Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.13, "jev_p_culpable": 0.84, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Gulab Singh Chaudhury", "display": "Gulab Singh Chaudhury" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bhopal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1102670/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Replace final sentence with the recorded defence: each accused denied the allegations; the s.313 version was that police received information of an injured/unconscious person lying near the Nala, and counsel argued the prosecution evidence (PW-12, PW-14) was not cogent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Replace final sentence with the recorded defence: each accused denied the allegations; the s.313 version was that police received information of an injured/unconscious person lying near the Nala, and counsel argued the prosecution evidence (PW-12, PW-14) was not cogent.", "court_quote": "The courts must not lose sight of the fact that death in police custody is perhaps one of the worst kind of crimes in a civilized society, governed by the rule of law and poses a serious threat to an orderly civilized society. Torture in custody flouts the basic rights of the citizens recognized by the Indian Constitution and is an affront to human dignity.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court upheld the conviction of police officer Gulab Singh Chaudhury under IPC 304 Part II for the custodial torture and death of a Bhopal man", "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 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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 2005 SC 402", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2004-11-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 2005 SC 402", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1102670/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-33-001", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2005-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1247", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Banda Boy vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Banda Boy vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Sagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Banda", "police_station_or_unit": "Madhya Pradesh Police, Banda (Sagar district)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Banda Boy vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 2006 MP 28; 2005(4) MPHT 260; 2006 ACJ 2262", "judges": [ "R.V. Raveendran", "A.K. Patnaik", "Dipak Misra" ], "judgment_date": "2005-08-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2005, "incident_date": "2005-03-15", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": 8, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Banda boy, age 8", "name": null }, { "age": 17, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Banda boy, age 17", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 8, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 8-year-old boy" }, { "age": 17, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 17-year-old boy" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 400000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1476648/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/506461/brijendra-thakur-vs-madhya-pradesh" ], "summary": "The younger deceased was seven years old per the court's findings (paras 2, 7) — standing on his house terrace; the 17-year-old was not part of the active mob. Remove '(8)'/'(17)' duplications. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The younger deceased was seven years old per the court's findings (paras 2, 7) — standing on his house terrace; the 17-year-old was not part of the active mob. Remove '(8)'/'(17)' duplications.", "court_quote": "In our considered view the death had occurred due to recklessness of the police.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; police firing deaths held reckless, Rs 2 lakh compensation per death.", "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": "2005-08-22", "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 400,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2006 MP 28; 2005(4) MPHT 260; 2006 ACJ 2262", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1476648/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/506461/brijendra-thakur-vs-madhya-pradesh", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-75-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1248", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Morena Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Morena Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Morena", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Morena", "police_station_or_unit": "City Kotwali, Morena", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Morena Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2006(2) MPHT 18", "judges": [ "A.K. Patnaik", "R.K. Gupta" ], "judgment_date": "2006-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1996-08-22", "incident_year": 1996, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 307", "IPC 34", "IPC 309", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "City Kotwali, Morena", "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": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, City Kotwali, Morena" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "City Kotwali, Morena", "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": "Sub-Inspector, City Kotwali, Morena" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "named_only", "unit": "City Kotwali, Morena", "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": "Head Constable, City Kotwali, Morena" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Morena man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/975911/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Morena man was picked up at Morena railway station for inquiry on 22 August 1996, suffered severe burn injuries at City Kotwali, Morena, and died in hospital at Gwalior on 24 August 1996. His father alleged that ASI, SI and Head Constable set his son on fire, citing a dying declaration, while the police claimed he slipped into the unlocked Malkhana and set himself ablaze, a version the CID probe accepted. The Court held the CJM had mechanically accepted the closure report without hearing the informant, quashed that acceptance and remitted the matter with liberty to order further investigation. The Court further held that even on the suicide version, keeping the Malkhana unlocked with inflammables inside was gross police negligence, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation against the State for the Article 21 violation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Morena man was picked up at Morena railway station for inquiry on 22 August 1996, suffered severe burn injuries at City Kotwali, Morena, and died in hospital at Gwalior on 24 August 1996. His father alleged that ASI, SI and Head Constable set his son on fire, citing a dying declaration, while the police claimed he slipped into the unlocked Malkhana and set himself ablaze, a version the CID probe accepted. The Court held the CJM had mechanically accepted the closure report without hearing the informant, quashed that acceptance and remitted the matter with liberty to order further investigation. The Court further held that even on the suicide version, keeping the Malkhana unlocked with inflammables inside was gross police negligence, and awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation against the State for the Article 21 violation.", "court_quote": "Once a person is taken into custody of the Police, it is responsibility of the Police to ensure safety of his life.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; custodial death with gross police negligence, Rs 3 lakh compensation.", "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 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": "2006-02-17", "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 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2006(2) MPHT 18", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/975911/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-75-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0226", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shambhu Dayal Nagar", "display_title_redacted": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shambhu Dayal Nagar", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Bhind", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Malanpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Malanpur Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shambhu Dayal Nagar", "case_number": "Appeal (Crl.) No. 261 of 2004", "citation": "(2006) 8 SCC 693; AIR 2007 SC 163", "judges": [ "S.B. Sinha", "Dalveer Bhandari" ], "judgment_date": "2006-11-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1996-08-21", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Shambhu Dayal Nagar", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Malanpur Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.98, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Shambhu Dayal Nagar", "display": "Shambhu Dayal Nagar (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Malanpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/312089/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ae40e4b01497114134d1" ], "summary": "Replace final sentence with the recorded defence: the respondent denied the charge, alleged false implication out of grudge (noting his cousin PW3 turned hostile), called the pocket-recovery story untenable, and pleaded leniency after ten years. Reword 'Lokayukta trap party' to 'a police trap party (Special Police Establishment)'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Replace final sentence with the recorded defence: the respondent denied the charge, alleged false implication out of grudge (noting his cousin PW3 turned hostile), called the pocket-recovery story untenable, and pleaded leniency after ten years. Reword 'Lokayukta trap party' to 'a police trap party (Special Police Establishment)'.", "court_quote": "the impugned judgment of the High Court is set aside and the judgment of the Special Judge is restored.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court set aside the MP HC acquittal and restored the Special Judge conviction of ASI Shambhu Dayal Nagar for accepting Rs 3,500 bribe in a Lokayukta trap.", "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": "2006-11-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2006) 8 SCC 693; AIR 2007 SC 163", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/312089/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ae40e4b01497114134d1", "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": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-011", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0232", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bajatta Khurd, Badwani Woman vs State of M.P. and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Bajatta Khurd, Badwani Woman vs State of M.P. and Anr.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Barwani", "district_at_time": "Badwani", "city_town": "Bajatta Khurd, Badwani", "police_station_or_unit": "Badwani police (PS Badwani)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bajatta Khurd, Badwani Woman vs State of M.P. and Anr.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2008 CriLJ 47; 2007(4) MPHT 219", "judges": [ "A. K. Patnaik", "Ajit Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2007-09-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2007-07-25", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "CrPC 151", "CrPC 107", "Constitution Art 19", "Constitution Art 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police officers effecting s.151 arrests", "unit": "Badwani (Barwani) police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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": "Police officers effecting s.151 arrests, Badwani (Barwani) police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bajatta Khurd, Badwani woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Bajatta Khurd, Badwani woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 91, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1103400/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. On 25.7.2007 Badwani police arrested scores of Sardar Sarovar oustees agitating at the Jamin Hak Satyagraha and detained them in Badwani and Indore jails till 30.7.2007 purportedly under Section 151 CrPC. The State contended the agitators had blocked the highway, manhandled officials and created a law-and-order problem. The Court watched the CDs of the arrest and held the State's version totally false, finding the agitators were peacefully shouting slogans in exercise of Articles 19(1)(a)/(b) and the s.151 conditions (known design to commit a cognizable offence) were not met. It held the arrests and detention unauthorised violations of Articles 19 and 21 and awarded Rs 10,000 compensation to the petitioner and each agitator detained in jail, with liberty to recover from responsible officers after proper inquiry. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 25.7.2007 Badwani police arrested scores of Sardar Sarovar oustees agitating at the Jamin Hak Satyagraha and detained them in Badwani and Indore jails till 30.7.2007 purportedly under Section 151 CrPC. The State contended the agitators had blocked the highway, manhandled officials and created a law-and-order problem. The Court watched the CDs of the arrest and held the State's version totally false, finding the agitators were peacefully shouting slogans in exercise of Articles 19(1)(a)/(b) and the s.151 conditions (known design to commit a cognizable offence) were not met. It held the arrests and detention unauthorised violations of Articles 19 and 21 and awarded Rs 10,000 compensation to the petitioner and each agitator detained in jail, with liberty to recover from responsible officers after proper inquiry.", "court_quote": "We, therefore, direct the State of Madhya Pradesh to pay compensation of Rs. 10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) to the petitioner and each of the male and female agitators, who were arrested in the evening of 25.7.2007 and thereafter detained in Badwani and Indore Jails, in violation of their fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution within a period of two months from today.", "court_quote_para": "31", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source verified: MP High Court Division Bench held the 25.7.2007 s.151 CrPC arrests and jail detention of the agitators unauthorised and violative of Articles 19 and 21, and awarded Rs 10,000 compensation to the petitioner and each agitator detained in jail (not those released soon after arrest), plus Rs 10,000 costs, with liberty to the State to recover from responsible officers after inquiry. Accused-actors are police; outcome adverse_finding_compensation confirmed.", "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": "2007-09-25", "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": "2008 CriLJ 47; 2007(4) MPHT 219", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1103400/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-08", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0225", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ashok Kumar Jain and Rakesh Kumar vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Ashok Kumar Jain and Rakesh Kumar vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Tikamgarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mohangarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Mohangarh", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ashok Kumar Jain and Rakesh Kumar vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeals against judgment dated 12-11-1990 in S.T. No. 125/1988", "citation": "(2008) ILR (MP) 934; (2008) 3 MPHT 176", "judges": [ "R.C. Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "2008-03-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1988-01-07", "incident_year": 1988, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 330", "IPC 201", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ashok Kumar Jain", "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Mohangarh, Tikamgarh", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ashok Kumar Jain", "display": "Ashok Kumar Jain (Station House Officer)" }, { "name": "Rakesh Kumar", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Mohangarh, Tikamgarh", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rakesh Kumar", "display": "Rakesh Kumar (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mohangarh man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/585871/ashok-kumar-jain-and-rakesh-kumar-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5767b118e691cb22da6d30a2" ], "summary": "State the recorded defence: appellants claimed cross-firing with dacoits in the jungle near Khakrone and that a Mohangarh man died in the encounter; death occurred in the night intervening 7th/8th January 1988. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "State the recorded defence: appellants claimed cross-firing with dacoits in the jungle near Khakrone and that a Mohangarh man died in the encounter; death occurred in the night intervening 7th/8th January 1988.", "court_quote": "In the result, both the appeals are dismissed and the impugned convictions as well as consequent sentences of the respective appellants are hereby affirmed.", "court_quote_para": "31", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC dismissed both appeals and affirmed ss.330/201 convictions of SHO and constable.", "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 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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2008) ILR (MP) 934; (2008) 3 MPHT 176", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2008-03-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2008) ILR (MP) 934; (2008) 3 MPHT 176", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/585871/ashok-kumar-jain-and-rakesh-kumar-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5767b118e691cb22da6d30a2", "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": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-010", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1249", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jabalpur Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Jabalpur Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Jabalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jabalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Gorakhpur, Jabalpur", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jabalpur Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "W.A. No. 1754 of 2007", "citation": "2008 SCC OnLine MP 501; 2008 Cri LJ 3281", "judges": [ "A.K. Patnaik", "Ajit Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2008-05-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1992-06-08", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 420", "IPC 34", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jabalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 70000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b48ddb607dba348fff3cc0", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/578685/hardeep-singh-anand-appellant-hash-state-of-mp-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "Replace final sentence with the recorded State version: the State denied the handcuffing was unnecessary (giving no reasons) and denied responsibility for the trial delay, blaming the court's leniency toward the appellant. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Replace final sentence with the recorded State version: the State denied the handcuffing was unnecessary (giving no reasons) and denied responsibility for the trial delay, blaming the court's leniency toward the appellant.", "court_quote": "Nonetheless, the appellant was handcuffed without a valid justification and his dignity as a human being had been seriously affected.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified via mirror (primary 403 at check); unjustified handcuffing plus trial delay, Rs 70,000 compensation.", "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": "2008-05-14", "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 70,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2008 SCC OnLine MP 501; 2008 Cri LJ 3281", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56b48ddb607dba348fff3cc0", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/578685/hardeep-singh-anand-appellant-hash-state-of-mp-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-75-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1251", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhopal Police Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bhopal Police Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Bhopal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhopal", "police_station_or_unit": "1st Battalion, SAF (guard duty, Chief Minister's Bungalow, Bhopal)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Bhopal Police Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 7220 of 2003 with O.A. No. 1352 of 2000", "citation": "(2009) 3 MPLJ 338; (2009) 03 MP CK 0005", "judges": [ "S.S. 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Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Remove victim's name (use role noun, e.g. 'a woman labourer') and replace final sentence with the recorded respondents' case: the State supported the dismissal, contending the DIG's suo motu revision under Regulation 270 was legal.", "court_quote": "In view of the aforesaid, no illegality is found in the impugned action and the order by which the petitioner has been dismissed from service.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; dismissal of SAF constable for on-duty sexual misconduct 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": "2009-03-30", "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": "(2009) 3 MPLJ 338; (2009) 03 MP CK 0005", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/575872/govind-mane-appellant-hash-state-of-mp-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-117" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-76-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0221", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haricharan and Ors vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Haricharan and Ors vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Shivpuri", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Indar", "police_station_or_unit": "Indar Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haricharan and Ors vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 581-584 of 2003", "citation": "(2011) 4 SCC 159", "judges": [ "B. Sudershan Reddy", "Surinder Singh Nijjar" ], "judgment_date": "2011-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1983-10-08", "incident_year": 1983, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 330" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Anil Kumar Singh Kushwaha", "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Indar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.28, "jev_p_culpable": 0.81, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Anil Kumar Singh Kushwaha", "display": "Anil Kumar Singh Kushwaha (Station House Officer)" }, { "name": "Ram Ujagar Singh", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Indar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.2, "jev_p_culpable": 0.86, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ram Ujagar Singh", "display": "Ram Ujagar Singh (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Nathuram", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Indar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.2, "jev_p_culpable": 0.88, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Nathuram", "display": "Nathuram (Head Constable)" }, { "name": "Haricharan", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Indar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Haricharan", "display": "Haricharan (Constable)" }, { "name": "Mazid Hussain", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Indar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.14, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Mazid Hussain", "display": "Mazid Hussain (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Indar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/130578477/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af0ae4b01497114156db" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. An Indar man was illegally picked up and detained at Indar Police Station, Shivpuri, from October 8 to 11, 1983, where police personnel subjected him to horrific torture, including electric shocks to his scrotum, to extort a confession in a theft case. The victim sustained severe injuries and a resultant fatal brain haemorrhage, succumbing shortly after being dumped outside. Although the trial court acquitted the accused policemen, the Madhya Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal and convicted all five police personnel under Sections 304 Part II and 330 IPC, sentencing them to five years rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed their appeals, affirming that an Indar man's death was a direct consequence of inexcusable and inhuman police torture.", "summary_verified": "An Indar man was illegally picked up and detained at Indar Police Station, Shivpuri, from October 8 to 11, 1983, where police personnel subjected him to horrific torture, including electric shocks to his scrotum, to extort a confession in a theft case. The victim sustained severe injuries and a resultant fatal brain haemorrhage, succumbing shortly after being dumped outside. Although the trial court acquitted the accused policemen, the Madhya Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal and convicted all five police personnel under Sections 304 Part II and 330 IPC, sentencing them to five years rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed their appeals, affirming that an Indar man's death was a direct consequence of inexcusable and inhuman police torture.", "court_quote": "The evidence on the record clearly shows that death of an Indar man was a direct consequence of the inexcusable and inhuman torture by the police.", "court_quote_para": "32", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court affirmed the MP High Court conviction of five police personnel under IPC 304 Part II and 330 for custodial torture and death of an Indar man", "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 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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2011) 4 SCC 159", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2011-03-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2011) 4 SCC 159", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/130578477/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af0ae4b01497114156db", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-006", "officers_named_public": 5, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0337", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jabalpur Man v. 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State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 2250-2251 of 2011", "citation": "(2012) 1 SCC 748", "judges": [], "judgment_date": "2011-12-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1992-06-08", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Jabalpur Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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": "Police personnel, Jabalpur Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jabalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/810564399/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af0ae4b01497114156d5" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court held there was no warrant for handcuffing the appellant, a coaching-centre owner trapped in a question-paper sale case on 8 June 1992, and that the unjustified handcuffing with published photographs adversely affected his dignity and led to tragic consequences including his sister death from shock. The Court found the ensuing trial dragged over 12 years till acquittal in August 2004, with five years delay attributable to the prosecution. It agreed with the Madhya Pradesh High Court Division Bench that Rs 70,000 did not do justice to the suffering and humiliation. It enhanced compensation to Rs 2 lakh payable by the State, without prejudice to a damages claim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held there was no warrant for handcuffing the appellant, a coaching-centre owner trapped in a question-paper sale case on 8 June 1992, and that the unjustified handcuffing with published photographs adversely affected his dignity and led to tragic consequences including his sister death from shock. The Court found the ensuing trial dragged over 12 years till acquittal in August 2004, with five years delay attributable to the prosecution. It agreed with the Madhya Pradesh High Court Division Bench that Rs 70,000 did not do justice to the suffering and humiliation. It enhanced compensation to Rs 2 lakh payable by the State, without prejudice to a damages claim.", "court_quote": "There was no warrant for putting the appellant under handcuffs. His handcuffing was without justification.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Unjustified handcuffing + 12-year delayed trial; compensation enhanced Rs 70k to Rs 2 lakh.", "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": "2011-12-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2012) 1 SCC 748", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/810564399/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af0ae4b01497114156d5", "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": [ "chunk-30" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-018", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0228", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Subhashchandra Joshi vs State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Subhashchandra Joshi vs State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Dewas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pipalrawan", "police_station_or_unit": "Pipalrawan Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Subhashchandra Joshi vs State of M.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 994 of 2001", "citation": "(2012) 02 MP CK 0123", "judges": [ "S.R. 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Shrivastava" ], "judgment_date": "2012-02-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1999-07-18", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Subhashchandra Joshi", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Pipalrawan, Dewas", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Subhashchandra Joshi", "display": "Subhashchandra Joshi (Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 4, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/598259/subhashchandra-joshi-vs-state-of-mp/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e668e4607dba6b53433ff6" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Head Constable Subhashchandra Joshi of Pipalrawan Police Station, Dewas, while investigating a case against complainant [name withheld] and his three brothers, demanded Rs. 1,500 to release them on bail, threatening to send them to jail if unpaid. On 18.07.1999 the Lokayukta (SPE Ujjain) trapped him red-handed inside the police station accepting treated currency, with a positive phenolphthalein test and recovery of the notes from his bag. The Special Judge, Dewas, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed his appeal, holding motive, demand and acceptance proved and rejecting his afterthought medicine-contamination defence, directing surrender by 02.04.2012.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable Subhashchandra Joshi of Pipalrawan Police Station, Dewas, while investigating a case against complainant [name withheld] and his three brothers, demanded Rs. 1,500 to release them on bail, threatening to send them to jail if unpaid. On 18.07.1999 the Lokayukta (SPE Ujjain) trapped him red-handed inside the police station accepting treated currency, with a positive phenolphthalein test and recovery of the notes from his bag. The Special Judge, Dewas, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed his appeal, holding motive, demand and acceptance proved and rejecting his afterthought medicine-contamination defence, directing surrender by 02.04.2012.", "court_quote": "We have also gone through the reasonings assigned by learned Special Judge convicting the appellant and we find them to be quite cogent as it is based on correct appreciation of evidence and law and hence, by extending our stamp of approval to those reasonings and findings we hereby dismiss this appeal.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP High Court (Indore Division Bench) dismissed the appeal of Head Constable Subhashchandra Joshi, affirming his PC Act conviction for the Rs 1,500 bribe trap at Pipalrawan police station.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2012) 02 MP CK 0123", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2012-02-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2012) 02 MP CK 0123", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/598259/subhashchandra-joshi-vs-state-of-mp/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e668e4607dba6b53433ff6", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-002", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1256", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of M.P. vs Madhya Pradesh Police personnel and others", "display_title_redacted": "State of M.P. vs Madhya Pradesh Police personnel and others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gwalior", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "State of M.P. vs Madhya Pradesh Police personnel and others", "case_number": "Writ Appeal No. 573 of 2011", "citation": "(2014) 2 MPHT 473; (2013) 1 MPLJ 583; (2013) 01 MP CK 0138", "judges": [ "S.K. Gangele", "G.D. Saxena" ], "judgment_date": "2013-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "1998-01-01", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 420 (tried; acquitted)", "PC Act 1988 s.8/9 (tried; acquitted)", "MP Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1965" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Madhya Pradesh Police", "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": "Police personnel, Madhya Pradesh Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gwalior man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gwalior man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Gwalior woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/596541/state-of-mp-vs-jandel-singh-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2014) 2 MPHT 473", "(2013) 1 MPLJ 583" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Police officer faced a departmental enquiry on charges of taking Rs. 28,000, Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 10,000 from three persons on the promise of securing them police employment; ten witnesses deposed, the charges were found proved, and the Superintendent of Police dismissed him, affirmed on departmental appeal. He was separately acquitted in three criminal cases under Section 420 IPC and Sections 8/9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and a Single Judge reinstated him under Police Regulation 241. The Division Bench held the criminal acquittals were on benefit of doubt or lack of evidence and did not wipe out the misconduct proved in the departmental enquiry on a different standard of proof. Allowing the State's appeal, the Court set aside the reinstatement order and restored the dismissal from service.", "summary_verified": "Police officer faced a departmental enquiry on charges of taking Rs. 28,000, Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 10,000 from three persons on the promise of securing them police employment; ten witnesses deposed, the charges were found proved, and the Superintendent of Police dismissed him, affirmed on departmental appeal. He was separately acquitted in three criminal cases under Section 420 IPC and Sections 8/9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and a Single Judge reinstated him under Police Regulation 241. The Division Bench held the criminal acquittals were on benefit of doubt or lack of evidence and did not wipe out the misconduct proved in the departmental enquiry on a different standard of proof. Allowing the State's appeal, the Court set aside the reinstatement order and restored the dismissal from service.", "court_quote": "From three persons, the respondent No. 1 had taken money with a promise that he would secure employment of some persons in the police. It is a charge of corruption. The respondent No. 1 was a member of police force.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC Division Bench restored dismissal of policeman for taking bribes promising police jobs; criminal acquittals held on technical/benefit-of-doubt grounds, no bar under Regulation 241.", "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": "2013-01-15", "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": "(2014) 2 MPHT 473; (2013) 1 MPLJ 583; (2013) 01 MP CK 0138", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/596541/state-of-mp-vs-jandel-singh-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2014) 2 MPHT 473", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2013) 1 MPLJ 583", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-118" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1255", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Madhya Pradesh Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Madhya Pradesh Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Madhya Pradesh Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 7868 of 2003", "citation": "LAWS(MPH)-2013-7-461; (2013) 07 MP CK 0250", "judges": [ "Sujoy Paul" ], "judgment_date": "2013-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2001-07-20", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Madhya Pradesh Police", "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": "Head Constable, Madhya Pradesh Police" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/600186/nemi-chand-sharma-vs-state-of-mp-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "LAWS(MPH)-2013-7-461" ], "summary": "Head Constable, with 23 years of service in the Madhya Pradesh Police, was charge-sheeted on 8 June 2001 on two charges arising from an incident dated 20 July 2001, and a regular departmental enquiry found both charges established on the evidence of eyewitnesses, leading to dismissal from service affirmed on appeal. He challenged the dismissal on grounds including reliance on a preliminary enquiry, hearsay, the incident occurring off duty hours and outside his posting area, and disproportionality. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held it was not a case of no evidence, that off-duty conduct reflecting on establishment discipline amounts to misconduct, and that the charges were very grave with punishment commensurate to the misconduct. The Court observed his conduct was highly improper and unbecoming of a police constable, and dismissed the petition with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable, with 23 years of service in the Madhya Pradesh Police, was charge-sheeted on 8 June 2001 on two charges arising from an incident dated 20 July 2001, and a regular departmental enquiry found both charges established on the evidence of eyewitnesses, leading to dismissal from service affirmed on appeal. He challenged the dismissal on grounds including reliance on a preliminary enquiry, hearsay, the incident occurring off duty hours and outside his posting area, and disproportionality. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held it was not a case of no evidence, that off-duty conduct reflecting on establishment discipline amounts to misconduct, and that the charges were very grave with punishment commensurate to the misconduct. The Court observed his conduct was highly improper and unbecoming of a police constable, and dismissed the petition with no costs.", "court_quote": "The police force is appointed to save the life and dignity of the citizens and not to snatch their dignity.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC (Gwalior) upheld dismissal of Head Constable on two grave charges proved in departmental enquiry; charge text vernacular-omitted in source, outcome certain.", "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": "2013-07-25", "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": "LAWS(MPH)-2013-7-461; (2013) 07 MP CK 0250", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/600186/nemi-chand-sharma-vs-state-of-mp-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "LAWS(MPH)-2013-7-461", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-118" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1254", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "BSF Constable (dismissed) vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "BSF Constable (dismissed) vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Tekanpur", "police_station_or_unit": "35th Battalion BSF (tried by SSFC at STC, BSF Tekanpur)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "BSF Constable (dismissed) vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 7455/2011", "citation": "(2014) 1 MPJR 45; (2014) 1 MPLJ 600; (2013) 10 MP CK 0231", "judges": [ "Sujoy Paul" ], "judgment_date": "2013-10-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "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", "sections": [ "BSF Act 1968 (SSFC trial)", "BSF Act 1968 s.117(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (dismissed)", "unit": "35th Battalion BSF", "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 (dismissed), 35th Battalion BSF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/600574/jitender-singh-vs-union-of-india-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2014) 1 MPJR 45", "(2014) 1 MPLJ 600" ], "summary": "BSF Constable was charge-sheeted on 29 March 2011 on a grave charge of sodomy and tried by a Summary Security Force Court at STC BSF Tekanpur, which found the charge proved and dismissed him from service with one year's rigorous imprisonment in civil jail on 18 May 2011, affirmed on appeal on 27 September 2011. He challenged the punishment contending the allegations were IPC offences not triable under the BSF Act, the convening authority was incompetent, and CrPC and Evidence Act procedures were not followed. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the SSFC trial competent, that the CrPC and Evidence Act do not apply to SSFC trials, that the bar on the accused's friend cross-examining witnesses under Rule 157 is valid, and that no personal hearing is required under Section 117(2). The Court held the charges very grave and the punishment not harsh or excessive, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "BSF Constable was charge-sheeted on 29 March 2011 on a grave charge of sodomy and tried by a Summary Security Force Court at STC BSF Tekanpur, which found the charge proved and dismissed him from service with one year's rigorous imprisonment in civil jail on 18 May 2011, affirmed on appeal on 27 September 2011. He challenged the punishment contending the allegations were IPC offences not triable under the BSF Act, the convening authority was incompetent, and CrPC and Evidence Act procedures were not followed. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the SSFC trial competent, that the CrPC and Evidence Act do not apply to SSFC trials, that the bar on the accused's friend cross-examining witnesses under Rule 157 is valid, and that no personal hearing is required under Section 117(2). The Court held the charges very grave and the punishment not harsh or excessive, and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "As analyzed above, there is no substance in the petition. The charges established against the petitioner are very grave. It cannot be said that the petitioner is subjected to any harsh/excessive punishment.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC (Gwalior) upheld SSFC dismissal plus one year RI of BSF constable on grave sodomy charge; CrPC/Evidence Act held inapplicable to SSFC trials.", "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": "2013-10-22", "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": "(2014) 1 MPJR 45; (2014) 1 MPLJ 600; (2013) 10 MP CK 0231", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/600574/jitender-singh-vs-union-of-india-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2014) 1 MPJR 45", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2014) 1 MPLJ 600", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-118" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1259", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of M.P. vs BSF Head Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State of M.P. vs BSF Head Constable", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Tekanpur", "police_station_or_unit": "BSF Tekanpur Academy (PS Dabra)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "State of M.P. vs BSF Head Constable", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 577 of 2000", "citation": "(2015) CriLJ 763; (2014) 3 JLJ 225; (2014) 4 MPHT 144; (2014) 07 MP CK 0106", "judges": [ "S.K. Palo", "S.K. Gangele" ], "judgment_date": "2014-07-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1990-05-08", "incident_year": 1990, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 354 (convicted by HC)", "IPC 376/511 (acquitted at trial)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "BSF Tekanpur Academy", "role": "convicted", "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": "Head Constable, BSF Tekanpur Academy" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 8, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Tekanpur girl, age 8" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "fine", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/606273/state-of-mp-vs-surendra-singh/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2015) CriLJ 763", "(2014) 3 JLJ 225", "(2014) 4 MPHT 144" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. On the night of 8-9 May 1990, BSF Head Constable, living upstairs in the same Tekanpur Academy quarter building, lured his 8-year-old neighbour upstairs on the pretext of opening a lock and sexually assaulted her. The trial court acquitted him under Sections 376/511 IPC on 8 April 1994 giving benefit of doubt over a contradictory medical re-examination. In the State's appeal under Section 378 CrPC, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held the trial court erred in recording a simpliciter acquittal as it was a clear-cut case of outraging the modesty of a minor girl, and that no fresh Section 354 charge was needed as it is a cognate offence under Section 222 CrPC. The Court set aside the acquittal, held him guilty under Section 354 IPC, and, noting almost 24 years had passed, imposed only a fine of Rs. 25,000 with six months' RI in default, issuing a non-bailable warrant as he remained absent.", "summary_verified": "On the night of 8-9 May 1990, BSF Head Constable, living upstairs in the same Tekanpur Academy quarter building, lured his 8-year-old neighbour upstairs on the pretext of opening a lock and sexually assaulted her. The trial court acquitted him under Sections 376/511 IPC on 8 April 1994 giving benefit of doubt over a contradictory medical re-examination. In the State's appeal under Section 378 CrPC, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held the trial court erred in recording a simpliciter acquittal as it was a clear-cut case of outraging the modesty of a minor girl, and that no fresh Section 354 charge was needed as it is a cognate offence under Section 222 CrPC. The Court set aside the acquittal, held him guilty under Section 354 IPC, and, noting almost 24 years had passed, imposed only a fine of Rs. 25,000 with six months' RI in default, issuing a non-bailable warrant as he remained absent.", "court_quote": "Therefore, we set aside the judgment of acquittal and allow the appeal. We hold the accused/respondent [name withheld] guilty of offence u/s 354 of IPC.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC Division Bench set aside acquittal and convicted BSF Head Constable u/s 354 IPC for sexual assault on 8-year-old neighbour; fine Rs.25,000 given 24-year delay. Case no. per court-record header is Crl.A. 577/2000, not 108/1994 as agent cited.", "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": "2014-07-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2015) CriLJ 763; (2014) 3 JLJ 225; (2014) 4 MPHT 144; (2014) 07 MP CK 0106", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/606273/state-of-mp-vs-surendra-singh/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2015) CriLJ 763", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2014) 3 JLJ 225", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2014) 4 MPHT 144", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-118" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1261", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Maihar Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Maihar Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Satna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Maihar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Maihar", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Maihar Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "W.P. No. 3130 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. K. Seth", "Rajendra Mahajan" ], "judgment_date": "2016-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2009-11-29", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance", "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 177", "IPC 182", "IPC 205", "IPC 365", "IPC 201", "IPC 120B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Head Constable at time of incident)", "unit": "Police Station Maihar, Satna", "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": "Sub-Inspector (Head Constable at time of incident), Police Station Maihar, Satna" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Maihar, Satna", "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": "Station House Officer, Police Station Maihar, Satna" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Maihar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 580000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143929519/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. On 29 November 2009, Head Constable of PS Maihar (Satna) took a Maihar man @ a Maihar man from his home in village Dhanwahi for interrogation; he was never seen again. The court found the police fabricated a paper trail showing his arrest on 2 December 2009 and release on bail, with an impersonator produced before the SDM, a fact confirmed by a CID enquiry and a judicial enquiry by the CJM Satna. Treating the untraced disappearance as a custodial death under the Nilabati Behera principle, the Division Bench held the State, SP Satna, SHO and [name withheld] jointly and severally liable. It ordered Rs 5,80,000 compensation to the wife and two sons within two months with 6 percent default interest, disbursed under the District Judge Satna's supervision, noting a criminal case against [name withheld] was pending trial.", "summary_verified": "On 29 November 2009, Head Constable of PS Maihar (Satna) took a Maihar man @ a Maihar man from his home in village Dhanwahi for interrogation; he was never seen again. The court found the police fabricated a paper trail showing his arrest on 2 December 2009 and release on bail, with an impersonator produced before the SDM, a fact confirmed by a CID enquiry and a judicial enquiry by the CJM Satna. Treating the untraced disappearance as a custodial death under the Nilabati Behera principle, the Division Bench held the State, SP Satna, SHO and [name withheld] jointly and severally liable. It ordered Rs 5,80,000 compensation to the wife and two sons within two months with 6 percent default interest, disbursed under the District Judge Satna's supervision, noting a criminal case against [name withheld] was pending trial.", "court_quote": "Respondent Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 jointly and severely pay to respondent a Maihar man's wife [name withheld] and his two sons a total compensation of Rs. 5,80,000/-", "court_quote_para": "6.1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial disappearance established; Rs 5.8L compensation ordered against State, SP, SHO and SI.", "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": "2016-04-29", "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 580,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P. No. 3130 of 2010", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143929519/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-78-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0227", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhopal Woman and Anr. vs State of M.P. and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bhopal Woman and Anr. vs State of M.P. and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Bhopal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhopal", "police_station_or_unit": "Cyber Cell / State Cyber Police, Bhopal", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhopal Woman and Anr. vs State of M.P. and Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 30 of 2015", "citation": "(2016) 11 SCC 703", "judges": [ "Dipak Misra", "Shiva Kirti Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2016-06-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2012-11-27", "incident_year": 2012, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 420", "IPC 34", "IT Act s.66-D" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Cyber Cell, Bhopal", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.09, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Cyber Cell, Bhopal" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Cyber Cell, Bhopal", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Cyber Cell, Bhopal" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Cyber Cell, Bhopal", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.09, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Cyber Cell, Bhopal", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bhopal woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bhopal woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103942103/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/06/15/state-of-m-p-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-for-illegally-arresting-two-women/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court held the arrest and detention of Dr. A Bhopal woman, an NRI doctor, and her septuagenarian advocate mother illegal and awarded Rs 5 lakh each as public-law compensation. On a Jabalpur complainant's civil dispute over an imaging-machine purchase given criminal colour in FIR 24/2012, Cyber Cell Bhopal arrested the women at their Pune residence on 27 November 2012 without following Sections 41/41-A CrPC or the D.K. Basu norms, transported them to Bhopal in an unreserved train compartment without producing them before the local Magistrate, and kept them in custody for weeks. The Court held their dignity seriously jeopardized, quashed the prosecution, and left the State at liberty to proceed against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court held the arrest and detention of Dr. A Bhopal woman, an NRI doctor, and her septuagenarian advocate mother illegal and awarded Rs 5 lakh each as public-law compensation. On a Jabalpur complainant's civil dispute over an imaging-machine purchase given criminal colour in FIR 24/2012, Cyber Cell Bhopal arrested the women at their Pune residence on 27 November 2012 without following Sections 41/41-A CrPC or the D.K. Basu norms, transported them to Bhopal in an unreserved train compartment without producing them before the local Magistrate, and kept them in custody for weeks. The Court held their dignity seriously jeopardized, quashed the prosecution, and left the State at liberty to proceed against the erring officials.", "court_quote": "the dignity of the petitioners, a doctor and a practicing Advocate has been seriously jeopardized", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; illegal arrest/detention of two women, Rs 5 lakh each.", "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": "2016-06-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2016) 11 SCC 703", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103942103/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/06/15/state-of-m-p-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-for-illegally-arresting-two-women/", "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": [ "chunk-28" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1260", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Bhopal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhopal", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Vijay Kumar Shukla" ], "judgment_date": "2017-05-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1988-01-01", "incident_year": 1988, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 376" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal", "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, Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 14, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bhopal girl, age 14" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28000019/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable, posted at Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal, was charge-sheeted in February 1988 for pursuing a 14-year-old girl, developing physical relations with her, and thereby causing her pregnancy and delivery of a child. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 376 IPC on 7 March 1992 as the prosecution failed to prove the prosecutrix was below 16, after which the department held a fresh enquiry and the Superintendent of Police, Bhopal dismissed him on 11 January 1993, affirmed by the DIG and DGP. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the victim's firm statement of forcible intercourse under threats, corroborated by her parents with no previous enmity, sustained the enquiry findings, and that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal applying the criminal standard of proof does not bar departmental action. The Court held involvement in a Section 376 case itself impaired the image of the disciplined police force, gave its stamp of approval to the dismissal, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, posted at Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal, was charge-sheeted in February 1988 for pursuing a 14-year-old girl, developing physical relations with her, and thereby causing her pregnancy and delivery of a child. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 376 IPC on 7 March 1992 as the prosecution failed to prove the prosecutrix was below 16, after which the department held a fresh enquiry and the Superintendent of Police, Bhopal dismissed him on 11 January 1993, affirmed by the DIG and DGP. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the victim's firm statement of forcible intercourse under threats, corroborated by her parents with no previous enmity, sustained the enquiry findings, and that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal applying the criminal standard of proof does not bar departmental action. The Court held involvement in a Section 376 case itself impaired the image of the disciplined police force, gave its stamp of approval to the dismissal, and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "I do not find any illegality and perversity of approach in the impugned order warranting interference of this Court in writ jurisdiction and the same being impregnable deserves to and are given stamp of approval of this Court.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC (Jabalpur) upheld dismissal of Mishrod PS constable for sexual exploitation of 14-year-old resulting in pregnancy; criminal acquittal on age-doubt held no bar to departmental action.", "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": "2017-05-23", "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": "Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28000019/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-118" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-78-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0436", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mohan Barodiya Man v. Lokayukta Special Police Establishment, Bhopal", "display_title_redacted": "Mohan Barodiya Man v. Lokayukta Special Police Establishment, Bhopal", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Shajapur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mohan Barodiya", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Mohan Barodiya", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Mohan Barodiya Man v. Lokayukta Special Police Establishment, Bhopal", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 952/2003", "citation": "LAWS(MPH)-2017-9-83", "judges": [], "judgment_date": "2017-09-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2002-01-07", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Mohan Barodiya, Shajapur", "role": "unclear", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear", "key2:unclear", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": "unclear", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.88, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station Mohan Barodiya, Shajapur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mohan Barodiya man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=417102155100&title=keshram-chaudhary-vs-lokayukta-special-police-establishment-bhopal", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/114986801/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/87094554/" ], "summary": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) affirmed the conviction of SHO of Police Station Mohan Barodiya by the Special Judge, Shajapur (Special Case 1/2002, judgment 26 September 2003) under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The prosecution case was that when complainant [name withheld] reported on 7 January 2002 that Ramesh Chandra had snatched Rs. 915 from him, the SHO demanded Rs. 1,000 to take action, and on 16 January 2002 a Lokayukta trap at Jain Uphar Grih caught him accepting the money with phenolphthalein wash turning pink. The affirmation, despite the complainant turning hostile, is expressly recorded in two later Indore Bench judgments. The sentence of one year's rigorous imprisonment with fine on each count stands affirmed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) affirmed the conviction of SHO of Police Station Mohan Barodiya by the Special Judge, Shajapur (Special Case 1/2002, judgment 26 September 2003) under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The prosecution case was that when complainant [name withheld] reported on 7 January 2002 that Ramesh Chandra had snatched Rs. 915 from him, the SHO demanded Rs. 1,000 to take action, and on 16 January 2002 a Lokayukta trap at Jain Uphar Grih caught him accepting the money with phenolphthalein wash turning pink. The affirmation, despite the complainant turning hostile, is expressly recorded in two later Indore Bench judgments. The sentence of one year's rigorous imprisonment with fine on each count stands affirmed.", "court_quote": "This Court in the case of [name withheld] Vs. Lokayukta, Special Police Establishment, Bhopal (Criminal Appeal No. 952/2003) even though the complainant has turned hostile, has affirmed the conviction.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC headnote text retrieved; conviction affirmed per two later HC judgments citing Cr.A.952/2003; deciding judge not visible.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "LAWS(MPH)-2017-9-83", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2017-09-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "LAWS(MPH)-2017-9-83", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=417102155100&title=keshram-chaudhary-vs-lokayukta-special-police-establishment-bhopal", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/114986801/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/87094554/", "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": [ "chunk-38" ], "merged_case_id": "SWBRIBER-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1262", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gwalior Police Constable and others vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Gwalior Police Constable and others vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gwalior", "police_station_or_unit": "District Executive Force, Gwalior (hospital guard duty, J.A. Hospital)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Gwalior Police Constable and others vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 3479 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjay Yadav" ], "judgment_date": "2018-01-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2014-05-13", "incident_year": 2014, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "District Executive Force, Gwalior", "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, District Executive Force, Gwalior" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/35598633/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable [name withheld] was on guard duty over undertrial Pradeep Rathore in the general ward of J.A. Hospital, Gwalior, when the undertrial escaped between 3 am and 6 am on 13 May 2014. The department found he left his post to answer nature's call without informing a fellow constable, and dismissed him from service; the appeal was affirmed. The court held the joint enquiry under Rule 18 of the 1966 CCA Rules was valid, the enquiry officer had not acted as prosecutor, and the petitioner was solely guilty of dereliction. It declined to interfere with the dismissal and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable [name withheld] was on guard duty over undertrial Pradeep Rathore in the general ward of J.A. Hospital, Gwalior, when the undertrial escaped between 3 am and 6 am on 13 May 2014. The department found he left his post to answer nature's call without informing a fellow constable, and dismissed him from service; the appeal was affirmed. The court held the joint enquiry under Rule 18 of the 1966 CCA Rules was valid, the enquiry officer had not acted as prosecutor, and the petitioner was solely guilty of dereliction. It declined to interfere with the dismissal and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "this Court declines to interfere with the punishment meted out to the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal of guard constable for undertrial's escape upheld; dereliction proved.", "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": "2018-01-03", "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": "Writ Petition No. 3479 of 2015", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35598633/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-79-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0218", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhind Man and Anr vs State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Bhind Man and Anr vs State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Bhind", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhind", "police_station_or_unit": "Bhind Police", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Bhind Man and Anr vs State of M.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 460 of 2004", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Vivek Agarwal", "G.S. Ahluwalia" ], "judgment_date": "2018-05-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2003-01-25", "incident_year": 2003, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 364A", "Constitution of India Article 21", "Madhya Pradesh Dakaiti Aur Vyapharan Prabhavit Kshetra Adhiniyam 1981 s.11/13" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Bhind Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.88, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Bhind Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bhind man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bhind man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 600000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/58361786/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/mp-hc-directs-state-to-compensate-victims-of-malicious-implication-for-making-them-spend-more-than-a-decade-in-jail-read-judgment" ], "summary": "Appellants Bhure and Shripal were convicted under Section 364-A IPC and the MPDVPK Act by the Special Judge, Bhind, and spent 12 to 15 years in prison for alleged kidnapping for ransom. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) acquitted the appellants, finding the prosecution story fabricated in collusion between the complainant and the police to gain popularity through fake and imaginary encounters. Holding that the appellants' fundamental rights under Article 21 were deliberately and maliciously violated by police misconduct, the High Court directed the State of Madhya Pradesh to pay Rs. 3,00,000 compensation to each surviving appellant, with liberty to recover the amount from the erring persons. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Appellants Bhure and S. were convicted under Section 364-A IPC and the MPDVPK Act by the Special Judge, Bhind, and spent 12 to 15 years in prison for alleged kidnapping for ransom. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) acquitted the appellants, finding the prosecution story fabricated in collusion between the complainant and the police to gain popularity through fake and imaginary encounters. Holding that the appellants' fundamental rights under Article 21 were deliberately and maliciously violated by police misconduct, the High Court directed the State of Madhya Pradesh to pay Rs. 3,00,000 compensation to each surviving appellant, with liberty to recover the amount from the erring persons.", "court_quote": "Thus, it is held that as it has been found that the appellant was prosecuted with deliberate and malafide intention, so that the complainant may settle his scores, and the police also joined hands with the complainant so that it can gain popularity by fake and imaginary encounters with the miscreants, then the State must compensate the appellants for the utter violation of their fundamental rights as for no reason, they were compelled to remain in jail for such a long time.", "court_quote_para": "27", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madhya Pradesh High Court acquitted appellants after 12-15 years incarceration in fabricated abduction case and awarded Rs. 3 lakh compensation each for police misconduct.", "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": "2018-05-24", "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 600,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 460 of 2004", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/58361786/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/mp-hc-directs-state-to-compensate-victims-of-malicious-implication-for-making-them-spend-more-than-a-decade-in-jail-read-judgment", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFALSEI-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0219", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0663" ], "display_title": "Badoni Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Badoni Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Datia", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Badoni", "police_station_or_unit": "Badoni Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Badoni Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 812 of 2008 & 866 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S.A. Dharmadhikari", "Anand Pathak" ], "judgment_date": "2018-07-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2006-07-04", "incident_year": 2006, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 364A", "Constitution of India Article 21", "Madhya Pradesh Dacoity and Vyapharan Prabhavit Kshetra Act 1981 s.11/13" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Badoni Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.95, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Badoni Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Badoni man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Badoni man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173886316/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/person-falsely-implicated-by-state-in-criminal-case-deserves-to-be-compensated-madhya-pradesh-hc-read-judgment", "https://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2008/CRA/812/CRA_812_2008_FinalOrder_06-Jul-2018.pdf", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/154651656/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Appellants Durga and a Badoni man, who were already lodged in jail in another case, were falsely implicated in an abduction-for-ransom case registered at Badoni Police Station, Datia, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Judge. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) acquitted both appellants, observing that the test identification parade was vitiated by police mischief who pre-showed the accused to the victim and fabricated evidence to frame innocent persons. Holding that the appellants' right to life under Article 21 was severely violated by tainted prosecution and poor investigation, the High Court ordered the State to pay Rs. 1,00,000 compensation each within two months, with liberty to recover the cost from erring investigating officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Appellants Durga and a Badoni man, who were already lodged in jail in another case, were falsely implicated in an abduction-for-ransom case registered at Badoni Police Station, Datia, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Judge. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) acquitted both appellants, observing that the test identification parade was vitiated by police mischief who pre-showed the accused to the victim and fabricated evidence to frame innocent persons. Holding that the appellants' right to life under Article 21 was severely violated by tainted prosecution and poor investigation, the High Court ordered the State to pay Rs. 1,00,000 compensation each within two months, with liberty to recover the cost from erring investigating officers.", "court_quote": "Deposition of Laxman (PW-1) in respect of test identification reveals that victim-Laxman (PW-1) had already seen a Badoni man at Police Station and therefore, the purpose of test identification at later stage in jail had no meaning and the same is vitiated by the mischief of the police authorities. The purpose of test identification is not to identify the already identified person.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madhya Pradesh High Court acquitted appellants of abduction charges after ~12 years in jail due to tainted investigation and awarded Rs. 1 lakh compensation each.", "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": "2018-07-06", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 812 of 2008 & 866 of 2008", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173886316/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/person-falsely-implicated-by-state-in-criminal-case-deserves-to-be-compensated-madhya-pradesh-hc-read-judgment", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2008/CRA/812/CRA_812_2008_FinalOrder_06-Jul-2018.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/154651656/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-41" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1263", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Datia Police Constable No. 492 vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Datia Police Constable No. 492 vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Datia", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Datia", "police_station_or_unit": "29th Battalion, Special Armed Forces, Datia", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Datia Police Constable No. 492 vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "WP 5587 of 2009(S)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "G. S. Ahluwalia" ], "judgment_date": "2019-04-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2000-06-10", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable No. 492", "unit": "29th Battalion, Special Armed Forces, Datia", "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 No. 492, 29th Battalion, Special Armed Forces, Datia" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/20085548/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable of the 29th Battalion SAF, Datia, overstayed sanctioned leave from 10 June 2000 and reported back only on 16 April 2001, a 310-day unauthorised absence, with ten prior punishments for similar absences. After a departmental enquiry found both charges proved, the Commandant removed him from service on 30 June 2001 and the appeal was dismissed on limitation. The court held the petitioner showed no prejudice from the presiding officer also acting as presenting officer, so the enquiry stood. It held removal proportionate to admitted habitual misconduct and dismissed the petition on merits and on delay and laches. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable of the 29th Battalion SAF, Datia, overstayed sanctioned leave from 10 June 2000 and reported back only on 16 April 2001, a 310-day unauthorised absence, with ten prior punishments for similar absences. After a departmental enquiry found both charges proved, the Commandant removed him from service on 30 June 2001 and the appeal was dismissed on limitation. The court held the petitioner showed no prejudice from the presiding officer also acting as presenting officer, so the enquiry stood. It held removal proportionate to admitted habitual misconduct and dismissed the petition on merits and on delay and laches.", "court_quote": "this Court is of the considered opinion that the order of removal from service cannot be said to be disproportionate to the misconduct committed by the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Removal for 310-day unauthorised absence with habitual record 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": "2019-04-25", "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": "WP 5587 of 2009(S)", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/20085548/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-79-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0233", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhar Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Dhar Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Dhar", "district_at_time": "Dhar", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "PS Bar, District Dhar", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Dhar Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "WP No. 26923 of 2019", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. C. Sharma", "Shailendra Shukla" ], "judgment_date": "2020-02-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2019-10-18", "incident_year": 2019, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 226", "Constitution Art 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Divisional Officer (Police)", "unit": "Dhar district", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.8, "jev_p_culpable": 0.45, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Divisional Officer (Police), Dhar district" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Police Station Bar, Dhar", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Police Station Bar, Dhar" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 68, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Dhar man, age 68" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46177798/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-hc-directs-state-to-pay-5l-to-man-detained-illegally-initiates-contempt-proceedings-against-police-authorities-read-judgment-152622" ], "summary": "On 18-10-2019 the SHO, PS Bar arrested 68-year-old Husan of Dhar on a parole-violation warrant meant for Husna, a life-convict step-brother who had died in 2016, and Husan was lodged in Central Jail Indore to serve another man's sentence. The State, through SDOP [name withheld]'s affidavit and same-day rojnamcha entries, insisted the arrested man was the convict. The Court ordered a fingerprint-based inquiry by the Principal Secretary (Home), which proved an innocent lookalike had languished in jail for four months. The Court held the detention illegal, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation, ordered contempt cases against the SDOP and the rojnamcha-entry makers, and directed biometric identification of all arrestees. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 18-10-2019 the SHO, PS Bar arrested 68-year-old H. of Dhar on a parole-violation warrant meant for Husna, a life-convict step-brother who had died in 2016, and H. was lodged in Central Jail Indore to serve another man's sentence. The State, through SDOP [name withheld]'s affidavit and same-day rojnamcha entries, insisted the arrested man was the convict. The Court ordered a fingerprint-based inquiry by the Principal Secretary (Home), which proved an innocent lookalike had languished in jail for four months. The Court held the detention illegal, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation, ordered contempt cases against the SDOP and the rojnamcha-entry makers, and directed biometric identification of all arrestees.", "court_quote": "State Government shall pay a compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- (Rupees Five Lakh Only) to the father of the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source verified: MP High Court (Indore Bench) Division Bench held 68-year-old tribal was arrested 18-10-2019 on a warrant meant for his deceased step-brother [name withheld] (ST 41/1976 convict, died 2016) and illegally detained in Central Jail Indore for four months; fingerprint inquiry by Principal Secretary (Home) proved mistaken identity. Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation, ordered immediate release, registered contempt cases against the SDOP (false affidavit) and the 18-10-2019 rojnamcha-entry makers, and mandated biometric identification on arrest. Accused-actors are police; outcome adverse_finding_compensation confirmed.", "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": "2020-02-10", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "WP No. 26923 of 2019", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/46177798/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-hc-directs-state-to-pay-5l-to-man-detained-illegally-initiates-contempt-proceedings-against-police-authorities-read-judgment-152622", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-08", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1264", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Madhya Pradesh Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Madhya Pradesh Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Shajapur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shajapur", "police_station_or_unit": "Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Madhya Pradesh Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Writ Appeal No. 691 of 2019", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. C. Sharma", "Shailendra Shukla" ], "judgment_date": "2020-05-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2003-08-29", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur", "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, Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/97037983/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed in 1982 and transferred from Agar to Shajapur, was charge-sheeted in December 2003 for unauthorised absence in August-September 2003 against a record of twenty earlier minor penalties for absence. After due enquiry the charges were proved and he was compulsorily retired in June 2004; the appeal, mercy petition and writ petition all failed. The Division Bench held the Supreme Court cases he cited involved singular absences and were distinguishable from his habitual misconduct as uniformed personnel. Finding no procedural irregularity and the punishment not disproportionate, it declined admission of the writ appeal.", "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed in 1982 and transferred from Agar to Shajapur, was charge-sheeted in December 2003 for unauthorised absence in August-September 2003 against a record of twenty earlier minor penalties for absence. After due enquiry the charges were proved and he was compulsorily retired in June 2004; the appeal, mercy petition and writ petition all failed. The Division Bench held the Supreme Court cases he cited involved singular absences and were distinguishable from his habitual misconduct as uniformed personnel. Finding no procedural irregularity and the punishment not disproportionate, it declined admission of the writ appeal.", "court_quote": "The punishment is certainly not at all disproportionate to the guilt of the employee and, therefore, the admission is declined.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Compulsory retirement for habitual unauthorised absence upheld in writ appeal.", "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": "2020-05-29", "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": "Writ Appeal No. 691 of 2019", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/97037983/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-79-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1193", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Sub-Inspector (Executive) vs Union of India & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Sub-Inspector (Executive) vs Union of India & Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Chhindwara", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chhindwara", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF (posted Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh)", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Sub-Inspector (Executive) vs Union of India & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 6774/2020", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2020 DEL 1347", "judges": [ "Rajiv Sahai Endlaw", "Asha Menon" ], "judgment_date": "2020-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2015-07-18", "incident_year": 2015, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 376(2)(c)", "IPC 376(2)(f)", "IPC 506", "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3(2)(v)", "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3(1)(w)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (Executive)", "unit": "Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)", "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": "Sub-Inspector (Executive), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Chhindwara woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156216700/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1048813/mukesh-gurjar-appellant-hash-union-of-india-ors-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. CISF Sub-Inspector (Executive) [name withheld] was arrested on 20.07.2015 in FIR No. 412/2015 alleging rape and criminal intimidation at Pooja Lodge, Chhindwara, while on leave from his Chhindwara posting. He was suspended, departmentally charged with pre-planned hotel booking tarnishing the force's image, producing an unauthorised identity card, and the criminal case itself, and removed from service on 26.03.2016. Though he was later acquitted in the criminal trial after the complainant turned hostile, the Delhi High Court held the disciplinary finding was one no reasonable person could fault, refused interference under Articles 226/227, and dismissed his writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "CISF Sub-Inspector (Executive) [name withheld] was arrested on 20.07.2015 in FIR No. 412/2015 alleging rape and criminal intimidation at Pooja Lodge, Chhindwara, while on leave from his Chhindwara posting. He was suspended, departmentally charged with pre-planned hotel booking tarnishing the force's image, producing an unauthorised identity card, and the criminal case itself, and removed from service on 26.03.2016. Though he was later acquitted in the criminal trial after the complainant turned hostile, the Delhi High Court held the disciplinary finding was one no reasonable person could fault, refused interference under Articles 226/227, and dismissed his writ petition.", "court_quote": "Even otherwise, the version of the petitioner, of inspite of reaching Chhindwara, where his wife and family was, not proceeding immediately to his home/residence but checking into a hotel, has rightly been construed by the Disciplinary Authorities as pre-planning by the petitioner. In this context, we may notice that the petitioner does not dispute (a) the visit of the insurance agent / complainant, a lady, unaccompanied with her husband or anyone else, in his room in the hotel at Chhindwara; (b) the lodging of the FIR of the offence of rape and other offences; and, (c) arrest of the petitioner. From the said admitted facts and the conduct of the petitioner, notwithstanding the acquittal of the petitioner in the criminal case, order of upholding of the charge by the Disciplinary Authority cannot be said to be such which no reasonable person could have reached.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Removal from CISF upheld despite criminal acquittal; sexual-misconduct discipline case.", "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": "2020-09-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIRONLINE 2020 DEL 1347", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156216700/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1048813/mukesh-gurjar-appellant-hash-union-of-india-ors-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-110" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-43-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0699", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gwalior Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Gwalior Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gwalior", "police_station_or_unit": "Bahodapur Police Station, Gwalior", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Gwalior Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "W.P. 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The court found malice and gross misuse of uniform, rejected Section 76 IPC protection for want of bona fide belief, and recorded violations of liberty, dignity, reputation and privacy under Article 21. It awarded Rs.5,00,000 (Rs.2L property damage + Rs.3L rights violation) recoverable from the three officers with Rs.20,000 costs, and directed the Lokayukt to lodge an FIR including under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 25 July 2020 the officers forcibly removed the petitioner's shop goods to the police station and extracted a vacation undertaking in what was a civil landlord-tenant dispute, and on 14 August 2020 held him in the station for 7.5 hours without arrest memo on a mistaken-identity reward pretext, circulating his photograph as an arrested criminal. The court found malice and gross misuse of uniform, rejected Section 76 IPC protection for want of bona fide belief, and recorded violations of liberty, dignity, reputation and privacy under Article 21. It awarded Rs.5,00,000 (Rs.2L property damage + Rs.3L rights violation) recoverable from the three officers with Rs.20,000 costs, and directed the Lokayukt to lodge an FIR including under the Prevention of Corruption Act.", "court_quote": "The present case is a glaring example of gross misuse of police uniform.", "court_quote_para": "67", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single-judge judgment verified; Rs 5L + Lokayukt FIR for illegal detention/shop eviction.", "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": "2020-12-02", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P. 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The High Court held the case was deliberately botched up, with a manipulative and preconceived investigation conducted for the sole purpose of falsely implicating him, possibly to shield the actual culprit known to higher police echelons. It set aside the conviction and compared his fate, as eternal damnation, with Nambi Narayanan's ordeal. It awarded Rs 42 lakh compensation payable within ninety days, preserved his separate tort claim for malicious prosecution with adjustment, and ordered preservation of the trial record and DLSA assistance. No individual officer was named in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bhopal man, a Gond tribal final-year MBBS student, was convicted of murdering Shruti Hill by the Bhopal sessions court in 2009 and spent over thirteen years in jail as undertrial and convict. The High Court held the case was deliberately botched up, with a manipulative and preconceived investigation conducted for the sole purpose of falsely implicating him, possibly to shield the actual culprit known to higher police echelons. It set aside the conviction and compared his fate, as eternal damnation, with Nambi Narayanan's ordeal. It awarded Rs 42 lakh compensation payable within ninety days, preserved his separate tort claim for malicious prosecution with adjustment, and ordered preservation of the trial record and DLSA assistance. No individual officer was named in the judgment.", "court_quote": "This is a case that has been deliberately botched up and the Appellant falsely implicated to protect perhaps, the actual perpetrators of the offence who may have been known to the higher echelons of the state police.", "court_quote_para": "68", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC set aside murder conviction as false implication, awarded Rs 42 lakh; subcategory corrected.", "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, 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"record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0229", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0590", "CWC-1445" ], "display_title": "Nagalwadi Man and Anr. vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Nagalwadi Man and Anr. vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Barwani", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Nagalwadi", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Nagalwadi (Nangalwadi)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Nagalwadi Man and Anr. vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Miscellaneous Criminal Case No. 42867 of 2020", "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (MP) 33", "judges": [ "Subodh Abhyankar" ], "judgment_date": "2023-02-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2019-11-02", "incident_year": 2019, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 420", "IPC 467", "IPC 468", "MP Excise Act s.34(2)", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "Police Station Nagalwadi, Barwani", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Police Station Nagalwadi, Barwani" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 56, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nagalwadi man, age 56" }, { "name": null, "age": 41, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nagalwadi man, age 41" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 4000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/197341927/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-20-lakh-compensation-wrongful-imprisonment-frivolous-case-221949", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1153905/sakul-hamid-and-others-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh/", "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/mp-hc-20-lakh-compensation-truck-drivers-liquor-illegally-1463624", "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/mcrc428672020finalorder14-feb-2023wk-1471090.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mcrc428672020finalorder14-feb-2023-459637.pdf", "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/197341927/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Two Tamil Nadu truck drivers carrying a Kerala State Beverages Corporation liquor consignment were apprehended at PS Nagalwadi (Barwani) on 2-11-2019 and jailed until July 2021 on cheating, forgery and excise charges over a shortfall of 59 boxes out of 1600. The court found on the face of the charge-sheet that the documents were valid and the investigation was carried out with mala fide intent to falsely implicate the petitioners. It held the conduct amounted to misfeasance violating Article 21, quashed the charge-sheet and all proceedings in ST No. 25/2020, and directed the State to pay Rs 20 lakh compensation to each petitioner within two months, with liberty to recover from the erring officers after due process. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Two Tamil Nadu truck drivers carrying a Kerala State Beverages Corporation liquor consignment were apprehended at PS Nagalwadi (Barwani) on 2-11-2019 and jailed until July 2021 on cheating, forgery and excise charges over a shortfall of 59 boxes out of 1600. The court found on the face of the charge-sheet that the documents were valid and the investigation was carried out with mala fide intent to falsely implicate the petitioners. It held the conduct amounted to misfeasance violating Article 21, quashed the charge-sheet and all proceedings in ST No. 25/2020, and directed the State to pay Rs 20 lakh compensation to each petitioner within two months, with liberty to recover from the erring officers after due process.", "court_quote": "It is worth mentioning here that the petitioners were arrested on 02.11.2019 and were subsequently released on bail by this Court only on 15.07.2021 in M.Cr.C. No.29973 of 2021, thus, they have been imprisoned for a period of 1 year and 8 months in this frivolous case lodged only at the whims and caprice of the concerned police officers.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Indore Bench quashed false charge-sheet as misfeasance; Rs 20 lakh each to two drivers.", "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": "2023-02-14", "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 4,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (MP) 33", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/197341927/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-20-lakh-compensation-wrongful-imprisonment-frivolous-case-221949", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1153905/sakul-hamid-and-others-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/mp-hc-20-lakh-compensation-truck-drivers-liquor-illegally-1463624", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/mcrc428672020finalorder14-feb-2023wk-1471090.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mcrc428672020finalorder14-feb-2023-459637.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/197341927/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-39", "chunk-48", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0041", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1266", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gwalior Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Gwalior Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Gwalior", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gwalior", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Morar, Gwalior", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Gwalior Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "M.Cr.C. No. 14202 of 2023", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Deepak Kumar Agarwal" ], "judgment_date": "2023-04-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2022-09-06", "incident_year": 2022, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "NDPS Act s.8/s.22", "Arms Act s.25/s.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Morar, Gwalior", "role": "named_only", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Morar, Gwalior" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 26, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Gwalior man, age 26" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/mcrc142022023finalorder28-apr-2023digiw-1497900.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/mp-hc-orders-police-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-to-man-1474795" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. On 6 September 2022, SI of PS Morar claimed to seize 100 gm of MDMA each from a Gwalior man and others (720 gm total), and Tiwari remained in custody in Crime No. 760/2022 under the NDPS and Arms Acts. The CFSL Bhopal report dated 21 October 2022 found no MDMA in any exhibit, only urea, which the State conceded is not covered by the NDPS Act. The court held Tiwari's Article 21 right to personal liberty was violated by the wrongful act of the police agency during nearly eight months of confinement. Alongside bail on a Rs 500 personal bond, it directed the DGP to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation within two months, recoverable from the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 6 September 2022, SI of PS Morar claimed to seize 100 gm of MDMA each from a Gwalior man and others (720 gm total), and Tiwari remained in custody in Crime No. 760/2022 under the NDPS and Arms Acts. The CFSL Bhopal report dated 21 October 2022 found no MDMA in any exhibit, only urea, which the State conceded is not covered by the NDPS Act. The court held Tiwari's Article 21 right to personal liberty was violated by the wrongful act of the police agency during nearly eight months of confinement. Alongside bail on a Rs 500 personal bond, it directed the DGP to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation within two months, recoverable from the erring officials.", "court_quote": "Director General of Police is directed to pay a sum of Rs. ten lac to the applicant by way of compensation for his wrongful confinement within a period of two months from today and compliance report to this effect be submitted in the Registry.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "False NDPS seizure (urea, no MDMA); Rs 10L compensation for wrongful confinement.", "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": "2023-04-28", "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 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "M.Cr.C. No. 14202 of 2023", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/mcrc142022023finalorder28-apr-2023digiw-1497900.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/mp-hc-orders-police-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-to-man-1474795", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-80-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0220", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Biaora Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Biaora Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Rajgarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Biaora", "police_station_or_unit": "Biaora Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Biaora Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Madhya Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 483 of 2014 & 505 of 2014", "citation": "2024:MPHC-IND:33084", "judges": [ "Subodh Abhyankar" ], "judgment_date": "2024-11-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2009-10-14", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Omprakash Mishra", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Biaora Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Omprakash Mishra", "display": "Omprakash Mishra (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Naval Singh Meena", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Biaora Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Naval Singh Meena", "display": "Naval Singh Meena (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Biaora man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Biaora man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81632470/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3487012/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector Omprakash Mishra and Constable Naval Singh Meena of Biaora Police Station, Rajgarh, were prosecuted for demanding and accepting illegal gratification to release complainant [name withheld]'s nephew [name withheld] from unlawful police custody. During a Lokayukta trap on October 14, 2009, Mishra accepted Rs. 6,500 in tainted currency, handed it to Constable, and both fled on a motorcycle while brandishing a service revolver at the trap team. The Special Judge, Rajgarh, convicted both under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced them to two years rigorous imprisonment. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed their appeals, holding that the demand and trap were proved beyond reasonable doubt.", "summary_verified": "Assistant Sub-Inspector Omprakash Mishra and Constable Naval Singh Meena of Biaora Police Station, Rajgarh, were prosecuted for demanding and accepting illegal gratification to release complainant [name withheld]'s nephew [name withheld] from unlawful police custody. During a Lokayukta trap on October 14, 2009, Mishra accepted Rs. 6,500 in tainted currency, handed it to Constable, and both fled on a motorcycle while brandishing a service revolver at the trap team. The Special Judge, Rajgarh, convicted both under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced them to two years rigorous imprisonment. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed their appeals, holding that the demand and trap were proved beyond reasonable doubt.", "court_quote": "In such circumstances, so far as the demand of bribe is concerned, it stands proved against the appellant [name withheld].", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) upheld the PC Act convictions and 2-year sentences of ASI and Constable for bribery and extortion.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2024:MPHC-IND:33084", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2024-11-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2024:MPHC-IND:33084", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/81632470/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3487012/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-005", "officers_named_public": 2, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0052", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1322", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Jabalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Mahila Thana, Jabalpur; Office of Superintendent of Police, Jabalpur", "court": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 28981 of 2024", "citation": "2025:MPHC-JBP:3856", "judges": [ "G.S. Ahluwalia" ], "judgment_date": "2025-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2024-09-20", "incident_year": 2024, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "Article 226", "41A Cr.P.C." ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Mahila Thana, Jabalpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jabalpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Jabalpur" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jabalpur 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/158106960/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that the SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur illegally issued a Look Out Circular against the petitioner without any basis, resulting in his detention at Hyderabad International Airport despite a trial court order permitting him to travel abroad. The Court noted the SHO failed to withdraw the LOC even after the petitioner was granted bail and travel permission, and the SP failed to periodically review the LOC. The SHO was placed under suspension and a departmental enquiry was initiated. The Court strongly deprecated the conduct of the SP who failed to produce departmental enquiry records.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that the SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur illegally issued a Look Out Circular against the petitioner without any basis, resulting in his detention at Hyderabad International Airport despite a trial court order permitting him to travel abroad. The Court noted the SHO failed to withdraw the LOC even after the petitioner was granted bail and travel permission, and the SP failed to periodically review the LOC. The SHO was placed under suspension and a departmental enquiry was initiated. The Court strongly deprecated the conduct of the SP who failed to produce departmental enquiry records.", "court_quote": "It is further submitted that after having issued notice under Section 41-A of Cr.P.C. there was no occasion for the SHO, Mahila Thana, Jabalpur, to have an apprehension that petitioner may flee away. Furthermore, after the bail was granted by the Trial Court therefore, the apprehension of fleeing away which might have been in the mind of SHO should have come to an end and thus she should have withdrawn the LOC but that was not done.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "The summary names the SHO of Mahila Thana, Jabalpur (an officer) in the summary field, which must be removed; Sections field is inaccurate: '226' is Article 226 of the Constitution (the writ jurisdiction, not a penal section) and '439' (bail) is not a section of this case; the relevant cited provisions are Article 226 and Section 41-A Cr.P.C.", "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": "2025-01-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2025:MPHC-JBP:3856", "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/158106960/", "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-mp-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-mp-hc-3", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0224", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Deepar Man vs State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Deepar Man vs State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Datia", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Deepar", "police_station_or_unit": "Deepar Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Deepar Man vs State of M.P.", "case_number": "M.Cr.C. No. 4578 of 2025", "citation": "2025:MPHC-GWL:8289; 2025 SCC OnLine MP 3174", "judges": [ "G. S. Ahluwalia" ], "judgment_date": "2025-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2017-09-24", "incident_year": 2017, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 307", "IPC 147", "IPC 148", "IPC 149", "IPC 294", "IPC 336", "CrPC s.482", "Constitution of India Article 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Datia (DIG Bhopal at time of judgment)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.27, "jev_p_culpable": 0.88, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Datia (DIG Bhopal at time of judgment)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Deepar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mcrc45782025finalorder16-04-2025-597099.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-police-suppress-evidence-murder-trial-290237", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/04/19/mp-high-court-slaps-rs-5-lakh-fine-on-digbhopal-for-suppressing-evidence-in-murder-probe-scc-times/" ], "summary": "In a Datia murder trial (ST 02/2018, Seondha) over the 2017 killing of Kailash, the trial court had directed preservation of call-detail and mobile-location records on 07.09.2018. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) found that then-SP [name withheld] received the records on 17.09.2018 yet deliberately suppressed them, got a false compliance reply filed before the trial court, and acted with mala fide intention to favour one side, violating the fundamental rights of free and fair investigation and trial. The Court directed [name withheld] to personally deposit Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation with the Principal Registrar within one month for disbursal by the trial court to the successful party, ordered the DGP to issue a departmental charge sheet within a month, and directed that the order be kept in his service record. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "In a Datia murder trial (ST 02/2018, Seondha) over the 2017 killing of Kailash, the trial court had directed preservation of call-detail and mobile-location records on 07.09.2018. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) found that then-SP [name withheld] received the records on 17.09.2018 yet deliberately suppressed them, got a false compliance reply filed before the trial court, and acted with mala fide intention to favour one side, violating the fundamental rights of free and fair investigation and trial. The Court directed [name withheld] to personally deposit Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation with the Principal Registrar within one month for disbursal by the trial court to the successful party, ordered the DGP to issue a departmental charge sheet within a month, and directed that the order be kept in his service record.", "court_quote": "Shri [name withheld], the then SP, Datia has tried to violate the fundamental rights of free and fair investigation as well as free and fair trial of atleast one of the parties.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP HC (Gwalior) held then-SP [name withheld] suppressed CDR records with mala fide intent in a murder trial, ordered him to personally deposit Rs 5 lakh compensation and directed DGP to issue DE charge sheet.", "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": "2025-04-16", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2025:MPHC-GWL:8289; 2025 SCC OnLine MP 3174", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/mcrc45782025finalorder16-04-2025-597099.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-police-suppress-evidence-murder-trial-290237", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/04/19/mp-high-court-slaps-rs-5-lakh-fine-on-digbhopal-for-suppressing-evidence-in-murder-probe-scc-times/", "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": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0051", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1321", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Guna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Myana Police Station; Jhagar Chowki", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 3450 of 2025", "citation": "2025 INSC 711", "judges": [ "Vikram Nath", "Sandeep Mehta" ], "judgment_date": "2025-05-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2024-07-13", "incident_year": 2024, "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": [ "105", "115(2)", "3(5)", "120", "3(2)(v) SC/ST Act" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Town Inspector", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Myana Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Town Inspector, Myana Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Personnel", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Personnel, Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Guna man" }, { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Guna man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860967/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court transferred the investigation into the custodial death of [name withheld] to the CBI, directing that police officials found responsible be arrested within one month. The Court found that [name withheld] was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including hanging upside down, chilli powder, petrol, salt, and hot water, leading to his death. The sole eyewitness [name withheld] was illegally detained for over 24 hours and subsequently implicated in multiple false cases to coerce him. The Court observed that the local police investigation lacked credibility as allegations were against their own personnel, and even the post-mortem appeared influenced.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court transferred the investigation into the custodial death of [name withheld] to the CBI, directing that police officials found responsible be arrested within one month. The Court found that [name withheld] was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including hanging upside down, chilli powder, petrol, salt, and hot water, leading to his death. The sole eyewitness [name withheld] was illegally detained for over 24 hours and subsequently implicated in multiple false cases to coerce him. The Court observed that the local police investigation lacked credibility as allegations were against their own personnel, and even the post-mortem appeared influenced.", "court_quote": "The involvement of the police officials in the custodial death of [name withheld] is clearly borne out from the statement of the sole eye-witness [name withheld] and stands further corroborated during the magisterial inquiry. The victims' family tried to lodge the FIR immediately after the incident, but the local police officials prevented them from doing so. It is only after the magisterial inquiry was conducted that the FIR came to be registered wherein the offence of culpable homicide amounting to murder was omitted. Nearly eight months have passed since the FIR was registered but till date, not a single accused has been arrested.", "court_quote_para": "29", "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", "tier_history": [ "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": "2025-05-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2025 INSC 711", "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/133860967/", "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-mp-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-mp-hc-1", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0046", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1270", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Datia", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Seondha", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Seondha", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others", "case_number": "WP No. 18398 of 2022", "citation": "2025:MPHC-GWL:20242", "judges": [ "Ashish Shroti" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2019-11-05", "incident_year": 2019, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "M.P. Police Regulations Reg. 270(4)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Seondha, Datia", "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, Police Station Seondha, Datia" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Seondha, Datia", "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, Police Station Seondha, Datia" } ], "officer_count": 2, "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://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2022/WP/18398/WP_18398_2022_FinalOrder_03-09-2025.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constables and [name withheld], posted at Police Station Seondha, Datia, were named by villagers as facilitating long-running illegal sand mining and transportation at Mauja Kandarpura, confirmed by a joint SDOP-Mining Officer inspection on 5 November 2019. After suspension and a departmental enquiry, both were removed from service by order dated 2 August 2022. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the enquiry findings, based on eleven witnesses and the documentary record, were neither perverse nor based on no evidence, noting beat constables could not plausibly be unaware of long-running mining in their beat. The Court held the Regulation 270 revisional removal order legal and justified, upheld it, and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constables and [name withheld], posted at Police Station Seondha, Datia, were named by villagers as facilitating long-running illegal sand mining and transportation at Mauja Kandarpura, confirmed by a joint SDOP-Mining Officer inspection on 5 November 2019. After suspension and a departmental enquiry, both were removed from service by order dated 2 August 2022. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the enquiry findings, based on eleven witnesses and the documentary record, were neither perverse nor based on no evidence, noting beat constables could not plausibly be unaware of long-running mining in their beat. The Court held the Regulation 270 revisional removal order legal and justified, upheld it, and dismissed the petition.", "court_quote": "Keeping in view the aforesaid discussion of facts, this Court is of the considered opinion that the findings recorded by respondent no.2 against the petitioners cannot be said to be perverse and based on no evidence.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Removal of two beat constables for facilitating long-running illegal sand mining upheld; abuse of police position.", "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": "2025-09-03", "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": "2025:MPHC-GWL:20242", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2022/WP/18398/WP_18398_2022_FinalOrder_03-09-2025.pdf", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-120" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-81-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0584", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Balaghat Man v. State of M.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Balaghat Man v. State of M.P.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Balaghat", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Balaghat Police (Special Judge POCSO, Waraseoni trial)", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Jabalpur", "case_title": "Balaghat Man v. State of M.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Reference (Capital) No. 1 of 2024 with Crl.A. Nos. 2969/2024 and 3272/2024", "citation": "2025:MPHC-JBP:49936", "judges": [ "Vivek Agarwal", "Avanindra Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2022-04-04", "incident_year": 2022, "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_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 363", "IPC 364", "IPC 302", "IPC 201", "POCSO Act s.5M/s.6" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "Balaghat — judgment names no IO", "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": "Police personnel, Balaghat — judgment names no IO" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Balaghat man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://mphc.gov.in/upload/jabalpur/MPHCJB/2024/CRRFC/1/CRRFC_1_2024_FinalOrder_27-09-2025_digi.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/48035861/", "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/local/mp/news/mp-crime-files-05-11-2025-hc-overturned-death-sentence-of-man-accused-of-killing-nieces-136339082.html", "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/mp/news/madhyapradesh-hc-overturns-death-penalty-says-negligent-police-probe-wrongly-punished-innocent-investigating-officer-fined-1-lakh-135908803.html" ], "summary": "A Balaghat man spent about three and a half years on death row after the trial court sentenced him to death for one child's murder and life for the other's in the April 2022 deaths of two minor girls. The High Court set aside the conviction on all charges, holding the investigation motivated and malafide, citing an overwritten section 161 statement date and a last-seen statement recorded only after recoveries and arrest, which destroyed the circumstantial chain. It ordered his forthwith release and awarded Rs 1,00,000 litigation cost from the State, recoverable by the SP from the investigating officer. The court-site PDF was unreachable at verification (certificate error); the operative order is corroborated by the Indian Kanoon listing and two independent press reports. A reported Supreme Court stay on the officer-cost could not be verified. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Balaghat man spent about three and a half years on death row after the trial court sentenced him to death for one child's murder and life for the other's in the April 2022 deaths of two minor girls. The High Court set aside the conviction on all charges, holding the investigation motivated and malafide, citing an overwritten section 161 statement date and a last-seen statement recorded only after recoveries and arrest, which destroyed the circumstantial chain. It ordered his forthwith release and awarded Rs 1,00,000 litigation cost from the State, recoverable by the SP from the investigating officer. The court-site PDF was unreachable at verification (certificate error); the operative order is corroborated by the Indian Kanoon listing and two independent press reports. A reported Supreme Court stay on the officer-cost could not be verified.", "court_quote": "It appears to be a motivated and malafide investigation, which cannot be given a seal of approval.", "court_quote_para": "55", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Death-row conviction set aside as motivated probe; Rs 1L to acquitted man, recoverable from IO.", "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": "2025-09-27", "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 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2025:MPHC-JBP:49936", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "officers", "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://mphc.gov.in/upload/jabalpur/MPHCJB/2024/CRRFC/1/CRRFC_1_2024_FinalOrder_27-09-2025_digi.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/48035861/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/local/mp/news/mp-crime-files-05-11-2025-hc-overturned-death-sentence-of-man-accused-of-killing-nieces-136339082.html", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/mp/news/madhyapradesh-hc-overturns-death-penalty-says-negligent-police-probe-wrongly-punished-innocent-investigating-officer-fined-1-lakh-135908803.html", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFALSEI-016", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0045", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1267", "alias_merged_ids": [], "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", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "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" ], "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", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Station Anandpur, Lateri, Vidisha", "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": "Head Constable, Police Station Anandpur, Lateri, Vidisha" } ], "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/2026/02/19/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" ], "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", "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": "2026-02-13", "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." } ], "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/02/19/babulal-deewan-v-state-of-mp-657074.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "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", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-81-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0222", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1482" ], "display_title": "Raghogarh Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Raghogarh Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Guna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raghogarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Raghogarh", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Raghogarh Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "case_number": "Writ Appeal No. 516 of 2026", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (MP) 69", "judges": [ "Anand Pathak", "Anil Verma" ], "judgment_date": "2026-02-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2011-05-07", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 365", "IPC 392", "IPC 34", "Constitution of India Article 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Raghogarh", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.52, "jev_p_culpable": 0.87, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Raghogarh" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Station Raghogarh", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.91, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Station Raghogarh" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Raghogarh man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/sultan-singh-nagar-v-state-of-mp-2131645.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-dismisses-assistant-sub-inspectors-appeal-against-termination-525278", "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-upholds-dismissal-of-assistant-sub-inspector-in-gold-loot-case-despite-acquittal-1569093", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/banks-guardian-turned-robber-mp-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-officer-who-looted-gold-525278" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector and Constable of Raghogarh Police Station, Guna, along with accomplices, de-boarded complainant [name withheld] from the Rajdhani Express at Kota railway station and looted approximately 4 kg of gold. Although the officer was subsequently acquitted by the criminal court due to hostile witnesses, a departmental inquiry found the charges of abduction and robbery proved, leading to his dismissal from service on May 11, 2021. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) dismissed his writ appeal, ruling that acquittal in a criminal case based on benefit of doubt does not bar departmental disciplinary proceedings and that looting and abduction by a police officer fully justified dismissal.", "summary_verified": "Assistant Sub-Inspector and Constable of Raghogarh Police Station, Guna, along with accomplices, de-boarded complainant [name withheld] from the Rajdhani Express at Kota railway station and looted approximately 4 kg of gold. Although the officer was subsequently acquitted by the criminal court due to hostile witnesses, a departmental inquiry found the charges of abduction and robbery proved, leading to his dismissal from service on May 11, 2021. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) dismissed his writ appeal, ruling that acquittal in a criminal case based on benefit of doubt does not bar departmental disciplinary proceedings and that looting and abduction by a police officer fully justified dismissal.", "court_quote": "Therefore, relying upon the aforesaid law laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court, this Court is of the considered opinion that mere acquittal by Criminal Court would not debar an employer from exercising the power to conduct departmental proceedings in accordance with the rules and regulations. Both proceedings; criminal and departmental, are entirely different.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) upheld the dismissal of Assistant Sub-Inspector for abducting and looting ~4kg of gold from a passenger.", "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": "2026-02-24", "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 LiveLaw (MP) 69", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/sultan-singh-nagar-v-state-of-mp-2131645.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-dismisses-assistant-sub-inspectors-appeal-against-termination-525278", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-upholds-dismissal-of-assistant-sub-inspector-in-gold-loot-case-despite-acquittal-1569093", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/banks-guardian-turned-robber-mp-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-officer-who-looted-gold-525278", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-46" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0060", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1323", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Narsinghpur Police Police Officer vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Narsinghpur Police Police Officer vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Narsinghpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Narsinghpur", "court": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench", "bench": null, "case_title": "Narsinghpur Police Police Officer vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "case_number": "W.A. No. 2812 of 2024", "citation": "2026:MPHC-JBP:31111", "judges": [ "Vivek Rusia", "Pradeep Mittal" ], "judgment_date": "2026-04-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2009-03-22", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "214", "215 M.P. Police Regulations", "FR-54" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Officer", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Narsinghpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Officer, Police Station Narsinghpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Narsinghpur resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/85035813/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court upheld a departmental penalty of a fine of Rs.5,000 imposed on a police officer for misconduct in unlawfully detaining a Scorpio vehicle at Police Station Narsinghpur and failing to initiate legal action, despite his acquittal in the parallel criminal trial under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Court held that departmental proceedings are based on a distinct standard of proof and the misconduct relating to unlawful detention of the vehicle and failure to take appropriate action was duly established in the departmental enquiry, justifying the penalty.", "summary_verified": "The High Court upheld a departmental penalty of a fine of Rs.5,000 imposed on a police officer for misconduct in unlawfully detaining a Scorpio vehicle at Police Station Narsinghpur and failing to initiate legal action, despite his acquittal in the parallel criminal trial under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Court held that departmental proceedings are based on a distinct standard of proof and the misconduct relating to unlawful detention of the vehicle and failure to take appropriate action was duly established in the departmental enquiry, justifying the penalty.", "court_quote": "Although the appellant was acquitted in the criminal case, the departmental findings relating to his conduct in stopping a vehicle, detaining it at the police station, and failing to take appropriate legal action were duly established, thereby justifying the imposition of penalty.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "The sentence field inaccurately states the dismissal period was 'treated as no work, no pay'; per the judgment, the fine of Rs 5,000 was upheld (substituted for the dismissal) but the treatment of the dismissal period was REMITTED for fresh consideration under FR-54, not finally decided", "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": "2026-04-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur Bench recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "2026:MPHC-JBP:31111", "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/85035813/", "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-mp-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-mp-hc-4", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0230", "alias_merged_ids": [], "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" } ], "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" ], "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" } ], "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." } ], "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122291996/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/madhya-pradesh-high-court-pulls-up-state-over-cctv-lapses-directs-compensation-in-custodial-violence-case-1586259", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-indore-police-commissionerate-police-atrocities-cases-532214", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/pdf_upload/2026/04/30/harsh-v-state-of-mp-2165885.pdf", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0059", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1320", "alias_merged_ids": [], "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" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Indore 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/47171834/", "secondary_sources": [], "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", "tier_history": [ "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47171834/", "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-mp-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-mp-hc-0", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0231", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ravindra Singh Gurjar vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Ravindra Singh Gurjar vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Indore", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Indore", "police_station_or_unit": "Vijay Nagar Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Indore", "case_title": "Ravindra Singh Gurjar vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "WP No. 45186 of 2025", "citation": "2026:MPHC-IND:16427; 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 230", "judges": [ "Jai Kumar Pillai" ], "judgment_date": "2026-06-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2023-06-15", "incident_year": 2023, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 226", "JJ Act 2015" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ravindra Singh Gurjar", "rank": "Inspector (SHO)", "unit": "Police Station Vijay Nagar, Indore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ravindra Singh Gurjar", "display": "Ravindra Singh Gurjar (Inspector (SHO))" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Vijay Nagar, Indore", "role": "named_only", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Vijay Nagar, Indore" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 16, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Indore boy, age 16", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 16, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "a 16-year-old boy" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/06/24/ravindra-singh-gurjar-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-682111.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/mp-police-sho-demotion-upheld-negligence-illegal-custodial-detention-of-minor-538836" ], "summary": "On 15.06.2023, while Inspector Ravindra Singh Gurjar was SHO of Vijay Nagar Police Station, Indore, four youths picked up over suspected gambling were kept at the station; the santari register recorded a 16-year-old boy as aged 16, yet he was illegally detained past midnight and released only after subordinates took Rs. 10,000 from the families. A departmental enquiry proved supervisory negligence and Juvenile violations, leading to a major penalty of demotion to Sub-Inspector for three years, confirmed in appeal and revision. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed his writ petition, holding the enquiry fair, the charges fully supported, and the demotion proportionate to his command responsibility. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 15.06.2023, while Inspector Ravindra Singh Gurjar was SHO of Vijay Nagar Police Station, Indore, four youths picked up over suspected gambling were kept at the station; the santari register recorded Harendra Singh as aged 16, yet he was illegally detained past midnight and released only after subordinates took Rs. 10,000 from the families. A departmental enquiry proved supervisory negligence and Juvenile violations, leading to a major penalty of demotion to Sub-Inspector for three years, confirmed in appeal and revision. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed his writ petition, holding the enquiry fair, the charges fully supported, and the demotion proportionate to his command responsibility.", "court_quote": "Looking at the overall facts and the settled law, this Court finds that the departmental enquiry was conducted fairly. The charges of negligence are fully supported by the preliminary inquiry report, and the impugned orders do not suffer from any illegality or jurisdictional error.", "court_quote_para": "39", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "MP High Court (Indore) dismissed Inspector's writ, upholding his 3-year demotion to Sub-Inspector for command failure over the illegal night detention of a 16-year-old and Rs 10,000 staff gratification.", "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": "2026-06-23", "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-IND:16427; 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 230", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/06/24/ravindra-singh-gurjar-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-682111.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/mp-police-sho-demotion-upheld-negligence-illegal-custodial-detention-of-minor-538836", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-r05" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-005", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0051", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1268", "alias_merged_ids": [], "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", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "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" } ], "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 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(reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/17/santosh-solanki-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-687437.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "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", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-119" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-81-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0223", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1434" ], "display_title": "Kailaras Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Kailaras Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Morena", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kailaras", "police_station_or_unit": "Kailaras Police Station", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Gwalior", "case_title": "Kailaras Man vs State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 11135 of 2025", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (MP) 305", "judges": [ "Milind Ramesh Phadke" ], "judgment_date": "2026-07-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2025-02-12", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Article 21", "Constitution of India Article 226", "Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 s.308(7)", "Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 s.3(5)", "Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 s.47(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Kailaras Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Kailaras Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kailaras man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/rahul-ataria-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-690703.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-grants-compensation-for-illegal-detention-of-police-constable-543779", "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/police-cannot-detain-accused-in-bailable-offence-without-informing-him-of-bail-right-mp-high-court-1618931" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Petitioner a Kailaras man, a serving police constable, was arrested by the Station House Officer of Kailaras Police Station, Morena, in connection with a bailable offence under Sections 308(7) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Despite the petitioner being entitled to bail and willing to furnish sureties, the police failed to inform him of his statutory rights under Section 47(2) BNSS and kept him detained in the police lock-up for over 24 hours until his production before a Magistrate. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) declared the arrest and detention unlawful and violative of Article 21 of the Constitution, awarding Rs. 5,00,000 as public law compensation to be paid by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the delinquent officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Petitioner a Kailaras man, a serving police constable, was arrested by the Station House Officer of Kailaras Police Station, Morena, in connection with a bailable offence under Sections 308(7) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Despite the petitioner being entitled to bail and willing to furnish sureties, the police failed to inform him of his statutory rights under Section 47(2) BNSS and kept him detained in the police lock-up for over 24 hours until his production before a Magistrate. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) declared the arrest and detention unlawful and violative of Article 21 of the Constitution, awarding Rs. 5,00,000 as public law compensation to be paid by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the delinquent officer.", "court_quote": "In the present case, this Court finds that respondent No.4 failed to adhere to the mandatory statutory procedure governing arrest in a bailable offence. The petitioner was illegally deprived of his liberty without authority of law. Such action constitutes a clear infringement of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) awarded Rs. 5 lakh compensation for the illegal police detention of a constable in a bailable offence.", "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": "2026-07-28", "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 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (MP) 305", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/rahul-ataria-v-state-of-madhya-pradesh-690703.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-grants-compensation-for-illegal-detention-of-police-constable-543779", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/police-cannot-detain-accused-in-bailable-offence-without-informing-him-of-bail-right-mp-high-court-1618931", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-07", "chunk-41" ], "merged_case_id": "MADHYA-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0100", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1390", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "state": "Madhya Pradesh", "district": "Jabalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jabalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur Division, Jabalpur", "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "bench": "Jabalpur", "case_title": "Jabalpur Man vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 2985 of 2026 with Writ Petition No. 2986 of 2026", "citation": "2026:MPHC-JBP:70034", "judges": [ "Vivek Agarwal", "Avanindra Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-01-06", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "Section 3(2) of the National Security Act, 1980", "Article 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "City Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Gohalpur Division, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "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": "City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur Division, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Superintendent of Police (City)", "unit": "Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "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": "Additional Superintendent of Police (City), Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "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": "Superintendent of Police, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jabalpur man" }, { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jabalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102960373/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/22/rajendra-thakur-v-state-of-mp-701658.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-sets-aside-nsa-detention-order-over-incorrect-criminal-antecedents-551185" ], "summary": "Two brothers in Jabalpur were detained under the National Security Act by the District Magistrate's order of 6.1.2026, after a country-made bomb explosion on 4.1.2026 that police attributed to one of them; the detention was extended on 1.4.2026 and 6.7.2026. The High Court found that the City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur, listed fourteen cases as pending trial when the petitioner had been acquitted in eleven of them, some as far back as 2004, and that the report went from the CSP to the Additional SP, the SP and the District Magistrate on the same day. It held that this incorrect supply of data, its mechanical forwarding and the District Magistrate's reliance on it without verification vitiated the detention, which could have been checked on CCTNS 'with the slightest of efforts'. The court also recorded that the SP had issued a show-cause notice to a sub-inspector over manipulation of CCTV footage of 4.1.2026. The detention orders were set aside on 11.09.2026.", "summary_verified": "Two brothers in Jabalpur were detained under the National Security Act by the District Magistrate's order of 6.1.2026, after a country-made bomb explosion on 4.1.2026 that police attributed to one of them; the detention was extended on 1.4.2026 and 6.7.2026. The High Court found that the City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur, listed fourteen cases as pending trial when the petitioner had been acquitted in eleven of them, some as far back as 2004, and that the report went from the CSP to the Additional SP, the SP and the District Magistrate on the same day. It held that this incorrect supply of data, its mechanical forwarding and the District Magistrate's reliance on it without verification vitiated the detention, which could have been checked on CCTNS 'with the slightest of efforts'. The court also recorded that the SP had issued a show-cause notice to a sub-inspector over manipulation of CCTV footage of 4.1.2026. The detention orders were set aside on 11.09.2026.", "court_quote": "this lacuna of non-application of mind, arising out of the incorrect supply of data by the concerned City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur, District Jabalpur, and its mechanical forwarding by the Additional Superintendent of Police and the Superintendent of Police to the District Magistrate, Jabalpur, coupled with the District Magistrate's blatant reliance upon such data without seeking its verification, vitiates the impugned order of detention.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Checked against the full common order dated 11.09.2026 (Indian Kanoon; neutral citation 2026:MPHC-JBP:70034). LiveLaw's PDF copy stops at page 8, before the operative paragraphs; the Indian Kanoon text includes paras 21-30. The bomb allegation is the State's case and is still under investigation (Crime No. 19/2026); the court made no finding on it.", "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": "Court finding", "position_explainer": "A court has made a finding on this allegation.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-09-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside the NSA detention order of 6.1.2026 against both brothers, finding non-application of mind caused by incorrect criminal-history data supplied by police.", "disposition": "Adverse finding (preventive detention vitiated by incorrect police data) · detention set aside", "source": "Writ Petition No. 2985 of 2026 with Writ Petition No. 2986 of 2026", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "scope": "Past-days sweep (25-27 Sep): record written from the full order on Indian Kanoon; quote checked verbatim; judgment date is 11.09.2026 (reported 22.09.2026). Detainees are not named." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-27", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102960373/", "link_checked": "2026-09-27" }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/22/rajendra-thakur-v-state-of-mp-701658.pdf", "link_checked": "2026-09-27" }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court/madhya-pradesh-high-court-sets-aside-nsa-detention-order-over-incorrect-criminal-antecedents-551185", "link_checked": "2026-09-27" } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "claude-opus-5.5-week-0927" ], "merged_case_id": null, "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }