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. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 4 May 2022 in Criminal Appeal No. 1580 of 2009, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Atul Sreedharan, Sunita Yadav, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Inspector General, Bhopal Range, Madhya Pradesh Police; Town Inspector, Police Station Koh-e-Fiza, Bhopal; CSP, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 42 lakh (Rs 42,00,000).
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The Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment dated 4 May 2022 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“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.” (para 68)
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 4,200,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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