The Supreme Court has strongly criticised the Madhya Pradesh Police for submitting a false affidavit, opposing a bail plea, attributing multiple criminal cases to an accused who was not involved in them.

A Bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Sandeep Mehta noted that the State's first affidavit had claimed that the petitioner had “eight other criminal antecedents.” However, the petitioner's counsel pointed out that in four of those cases, including one under Section 376 IPC, the petitioner was not even an accused.

When the matter was taken up, the State admitted to the error, claiming that the mix-up occurred because the petitioner's and his father's names were identical, and the information had been “computer-generated.”

The Bench rejected the explanation outright, observing: "

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