# Surat Man vs Kamal Dayani and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 2 September 2024 in Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.R. Gavai, J.) recorded the conviction of the Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat.

- Register number: GJ 05 CW 0004
- Case reference: Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.R. Gavai, J.), 2 September 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Insofar as Shri \[name withheld\], Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat (Contemnor-respondent No.4) is concerned, we sentence him to pay fine in the sum of Rs.25,000/-, to be deposited in the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association to be used for the …” (at para 8)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction entered by Supreme Court. Sentence: fine.
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105450033/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2024-0015)

**Record:** CW-2024-0015 (compiler id CWC-0137); case GUJARA-008
**Title:** Surat Man vs Kamal Dayani and Ors.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: B.R. Gavai
**Case number / citation:** Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023
**Judgment:** 2024-09-02 (2024, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2023-12-11 (2023)
**Place:** Surat, Gujarat; city town: Surat; police station or unit: Vesu Police Station, Surat; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Conviction entered by Supreme Court (conviction_by_sc)
**Sections:** Contempt of Courts Act 1971
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat (1 in record)
**Victims:** Surat man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** fine
**Sentence type:** fine (fine)

The Supreme Court held Police Inspector of Vesu police station, Surat, guilty of contempt for arresting Tusharbhai Shah on 11.12.2023 and obtaining his police-custody remand in defiance of the Court's subsisting interim anticipatory bail order dated 08.12.2023. By the guilt judgment dated 07.08.2024 the inspector and the remanding magistrate were both held guilty; the Court condemned the practice of seeking remand despite subsisting anticipatory bail. By the sentence order dated 02.09.2024 the magistrate's apology was accepted while the inspector was sentenced to a fine of Rs 25,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Insofar as Shri \[name withheld\], Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat (Contemnor-respondent No.4) is concerned, we sentence him to pay fine in the sum of Rs.25,000/-, to be deposited in the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association to be used for the purpose of Library within a period of one month from today.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105450033/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-holds-police-inspector-judicial-magistrate-guilty-of-contempt-for-arrest-remand-of-accused-violating-sc-order-265959)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 8
**display title redacted:** Surat Man vs Kamal Dayani and Ors.
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '2024-09-02', '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': 'Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105450033/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-holds-police-inspector-judicial-magistrate-guilty-of-contempt-for-arrest-remand-of-accused-violating-sc-order-265959', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** SC held PI \[name withheld\] guilty of contempt for arrest/remand in defiance of interim anticipatory bail; fined Rs 25,000.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction entered by Supreme Court.

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