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 "display_title": "Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana",
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 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Kaithal",
 "district_at_time": "Kurukshetra",
 "city_town": "Cheeka",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Cheeka / CIA Staff Cheeka, Guhla",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal (arising from Punjab and Haryana High Court Criminal Appeal No. 10-DBA of 1988)",
 "citation": "(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092",
 "judges": [
  "K. Jayachandra Reddy",
  "N.P. Singh"
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 "judgment_date": "1993-04-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1993,
 "incident_date": "1986-09-15",
 "incident_year": 1986,
 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 324",
  "IPC 343"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Cheeka man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
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 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1240824/",
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 "summary": "A Cheeka man, a theft suspect re-arrested on 8 September 1986, was held in the Cheeka police lock-up where his father, uncle and the village Sarpanch saw all four accused policemen beat him over several days. On 15 September 1986 the police threw his body under a bus to fake a road accident; the post-mortem found 15 injuries with fractured ribs and injuries to the liver, spleen and testes. The Sessions Court had let the officers off on probation, but the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted them under Section 304 Part I IPC with 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court held the custodial beating proved beyond reasonable doubt, treated the officers' failure to explain the custody death as fatal, but altered the conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC (knowledge, not intention) and reduced each sentence to 5 years' rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Cheeka man, a theft suspect re-arrested on 8 September 1986, was held in the Cheeka police lock-up where his father, uncle and the village Sarpanch saw all four accused policemen beat him over several days. On 15 September 1986 the police threw his body under a bus to fake a road accident; the post-mortem found 15 injuries with fractured ribs and injuries to the liver, spleen and testes. The Sessions Court had let the officers off on probation, but the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted them under Section 304 Part I IPC with 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court held the custodial beating proved beyond reasonable doubt, treated the officers' failure to explain the custody death as fatal, but altered the conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC (knowledge, not intention) and reduced each sentence to 5 years' rigorous imprisonment.",
 "court_quote": "This is yet another case of death in police custody.",
 "court_quote_para": "1",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; custodial death by police beating upheld, conviction modified to IPC 304 Part II with 5 years RI each.",
 "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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   "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"
  }
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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": "(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1993-04-28",
   "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": "(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092",
   "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",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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