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 "record_id": "CW-1992-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0353",
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 "display_title": "Sham Kant v. State of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sham Kant v. State of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Nagpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ramtek",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ramtek Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sham Kant v. State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal arising from Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) Criminal Appeal No. 93 of 1982",
 "citation": "1992 Supp (2) SCC 521; AIR 1992 SC 1879",
 "judges": [
  "S. R. Pandian",
  "K. Jayachandra Reddy"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1992-02-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1992,
 "incident_date": "1980-06-25",
 "incident_year": 1980,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 330"
 ],
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  {
   "name": "Sham Kant",
   "rank": "Acting Sub-Inspector (Station House Officer)",
   "unit": "Ramtek Police Station, Nagpur",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.04,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Sham Kant",
   "display": "Sham Kant (Acting Sub-Inspector (Station House Officer))"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ramtek man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ramtek man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.75,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1456974/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of acting Sub-Inspector Sham Kant, Station House Officer of Ramtek, and confirmed his conviction under Section 330 IPC for torturing temple-theft suspects a Ramtek man and a Ramtek man in police custody between 25 June and 1 July 1980. The Court accepted the survivor's account of stripping, beatings and sexual torture with an iron rod, corroborated by jail and medical records, after which a Ramtek man died of complications from 23 injuries. It rejected the challenge to the High Court's reversal of the trial court's acquittal and its dismissal of a clean-chit inquiry commission report. The Court confirmed the sentence of nine months' rigorous imprisonment with a Rs. 2,000 fine, observing it was very lenient. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of acting Sub-Inspector Sham Kant, Station House Officer of Ramtek, and confirmed his conviction under Section 330 IPC for torturing temple-theft suspects a Ramtek man and a Ramtek man in police custody between 25 June and 1 July 1980. The Court accepted the survivor's account of stripping, beatings and sexual torture with an iron rod, corroborated by jail and medical records, after which a Ramtek man died of complications from 23 injuries. It rejected the challenge to the High Court's reversal of the trial court's acquittal and its dismissal of a clean-chit inquiry commission report. The Court confirmed the sentence of nine months' rigorous imprisonment with a Rs. 2,000 fine, observing it was very lenient.",
 "court_quote": "After carefully scanning through the evidence of PW 2, 7, 13.19, 20, 23, 25, 29 and the various documents Exts.21, 22 and 34, we have no reservation in coming to the conclusion that a Ramtek man and a Ramtek man were subjected to ill-treatment by the appellant in order to extort a confession or any information leading to the detection of the stolen properties.",
 "court_quote_para": "27",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified via alternate sources after 429; s.330 conviction of SHO confirmed, sentence called very lenient.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "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": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "1992 Supp (2) SCC 521; AIR 1992 SC 1879",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1992-02-15",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "1992 Supp (2) SCC 521; AIR 1992 SC 1879",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
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   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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   "corrections_applied": []
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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