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 "record_id": "CW-1990-0004",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0459",
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 "display_title": "The State v. Howrah Police Inspector",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State v. Howrah Police Inspector",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Howrah",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Howrah",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Golabari PS",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The State v. Howrah Police Inspector",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal u/s 378(1) CrPC with Criminal Revision (vs Addl. Sessions Judge, 3rd Court, Howrah order dated 20.08.1985)",
 "citation": "1990 Cri LJ 2093",
 "judges": [
  "Ajit K. Sengupta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1990-05-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1990,
 "incident_date": "1980-02-26",
 "incident_year": 1980,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II/34"
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   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Golabari PS, Howrah",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector, Golabari PS, Howrah"
  },
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Golabari PS, Howrah"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Golabari PS, Howrah",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Golabari PS, Howrah"
  }
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 "officer_count": 3,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Howrah man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 7,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1676166/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1149295/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Calcutta High Court allowed the State appeal and complainant revision against the 1985 acquittals and convicted an Inspector, Sub-Inspector and Constable of Golabari PS for beating railway employee a Howrah man to death in custody on 26 February 1980. The Court held the assault was made to extort a confession, rejecting the alibi and fall-from-roof defence on eyewitness and medical evidence of ruptured kidney and liver. It sentenced two officers to 7 years RI and one to 5 years RI with fines payable to the complainant, affirming the fourth accused's acquittal. The judgment records the torture as an illegal extra-judicial execution in the lock-up. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court allowed the State appeal and complainant revision against the 1985 acquittals and convicted an Inspector, Sub-Inspector and Constable of Golabari PS for beating railway employee a Howrah man to death in custody on 26 February 1980. The Court held the assault was made to extort a confession, rejecting the alibi and fall-from-roof defence on eyewitness and medical evidence of ruptured kidney and liver. It sentenced two officers to 7 years RI and one to 5 years RI with fines payable to the complainant, affirming the fourth accused's acquittal. The judgment records the torture as an illegal extra-judicial execution in the lock-up.",
 "court_quote": "This case demonstrates the extent of inhuman torture and degrading treatment meted to a prisoner in police lock-up resulting in his illegal or extra-judicial execution.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC set aside acquittals and convicted 3 Golabari PS policemen u/s 304-II/34.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1990-05-14",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "1990 Cri LJ 2093",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "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",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1676166/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1149295/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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 "retracted": {
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-032",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}