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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "State of Himachal Pradesh vs Rampur, village Gharat Nala Police Head Constable and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Himachal Pradesh vs Rampur, village Gharat Nala Police Head Constable and others",
 "state": "Himachal Pradesh",
 "district": "Shimla",
 "district_at_time": "Mahasu",
 "city_town": "Rampur, village Gharat Nala",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rampur police party (SHO Ranjit Singh)",
 "court": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Himachal Pradesh vs Rampur, village Gharat Nala Police Head Constable and others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 11 of 1971",
 "citation": "(1980) ShimLC 73",
 "judges": [
  "D.B. Lal",
  "T.R. Handa"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1979-03-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1979,
 "incident_date": "1969-06-20",
 "incident_year": 1969,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 348"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Prem Chand",
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Rampur police party",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": "yes",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Prem Chand",
   "display": "Prem Chand (Head Constable)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Narsingh Dutt",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Rampur police party",
   "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": "yes",
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   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": "yes",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Narsingh Dutt",
   "display": "Narsingh Dutt (Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rampur, village Gharat Nala man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rampur, village Gharat Nala man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/242044/state-of-himachal-pradesh-vs-shri-ranjit-singh-and-others/",
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 "summary": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the State appeal against the acquittal of seven Rampur policemen by the Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahasu. On the night of June 20-21, 1969, a police party led by SHO detained a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man and a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man at a shop in village Gharat Nala while investigating a theft, beating them to extort confessions; a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man died the next morning at Bathara. Holding that Head Constable Prem Chand and Constable Narsingh Dutt had voluntarily caused hurt to extort a confession and wrongfully confined a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man overnight, the Court convicted both under Sections 330 and 348 IPC, sentencing each to two years rigorous imprisonment under Section 330 and one year under Section 348 to run concurrently, and directed them to surrender forthwith, while dismissing the appeal against the remaining five accused.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the State appeal against the acquittal of seven Rampur policemen by the Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahasu. On the night of June 20-21, 1969, a police party led by SHO detained a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man and a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man at a shop in village Gharat Nala while investigating a theft, beating them to extort confessions; a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man died the next morning at Bathara. Holding that Head Constable Prem Chand and Constable Narsingh Dutt had voluntarily caused hurt to extort a confession and wrongfully confined a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man overnight, the Court convicted both under Sections 330 and 348 IPC, sentencing each to two years rigorous imprisonment under Section 330 and one year under Section 348 to run concurrently, and directed them to surrender forthwith, while dismissing the appeal against the remaining five accused.",
 "court_quote": "Prem Chand, Head Constable, and Narsingh Dutt, Constable, the two accused, have gone beyond their powers and have committed the offences under Sections 330 and 348 of the I.P. Code.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HP HC set aside acquittal and convicted Head Constable Prem Chand and Constable Narsingh Dutt under IPC 330/348 for custodial torture of a Rampur, village Gharat Nala 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"
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 "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"
  }
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   "date": "1979-03-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Himachal Pradesh",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Himachal Pradesh entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(1980) ShimLC 73",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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   "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",
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