# Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another

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## Report card

By judgment dated 15 May 2025 in Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 3450 of 2025, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, JJ.) adjudicated the matter concerning 2 police personnel, namely: Town Inspector, Myana Police Station; Police Personnel, Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki.

- Register number: MP 08 CW 0004
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 3450 of 2025 / 2025 INSC 711
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, JJ.), 15 May 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Town Inspector, Myana Police Station; Police Personnel, Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: 105; 115(2); 3(5); 120; Section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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 …” (at para 29)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding.
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860967/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0051)

**Record:** CW-2025-0051 (compiler id CWC-1321); case cop-mp-hc-1
**Title:** Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Vikram Nath; Sandeep Mehta
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 3450 of 2025 / 2025 INSC 711
**Judgment:** 2025-05-15 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2024-07-13 (2024)
**Place:** Guna, Madhya Pradesh; police station or unit: Myana Police Station; Jhagar Chowki; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding (adverse_finding)
**Sections:** 105; 115(2); 3(5); 120; 3(2)(v) SC/ST Act
**Officers (gated display forms):** Town Inspector, Myana Police Station; Police Personnel, Myana Police Station and Jhagar Chowki (2 in record)
**Victims:** Guna man; Guna man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** None ordered

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.

> 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.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860967/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 29
**display title redacted:** Guna Man and Another vs The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another
**followup history:** {'date': '2026-09-24', 'scope': 'Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark).'}
**followup status:** checked
**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.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-24
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860967/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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:** Verified against the cited judgment.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding.

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