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 "record_id": "CW-1993-0008",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Ahmedabad Police Unarmed Head Constable vs State of Gujarat and Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ahmedabad Police Unarmed Head Constable vs State of Gujarat and Anr.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Ahmedabad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ahmedabad Police Unarmed Head Constable vs State of Gujarat and Anr.",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(1993)1 GLR 816",
 "judges": [
  "C. K. Thakker"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1993-01-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1993,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 331",
  "IPC 34"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Unarmed Head Constable",
   "unit": "Ahmedabad (Rural) police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Unarmed Head Constable, Ahmedabad (Rural) police"
  }
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 "victims": [],
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The petitioner, an Unarmed Head Constable, was convicted with three others in Sessions Case No. 187 of 1980 under Section 331 read with Section 34 IPC for custodial torture inflicted to extract a clue to stolen property, and sentenced to 3 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine. The court recorded that the conviction was confirmed by the High Court and the Supreme Court, after which the District Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad (Rural) dismissed him from service in 1984. The High Court held the DSP was the competent authority, the show-cause process was valid, and dismissal for such serious misconduct warranted no interference under Articles 226/227. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The petitioner, an Unarmed Head Constable, was convicted with three others in Sessions Case No. 187 of 1980 under Section 331 read with Section 34 IPC for custodial torture inflicted to extract a clue to stolen property, and sentenced to 3 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine. The court recorded that the conviction was confirmed by the High Court and the Supreme Court, after which the District Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad (Rural) dismissed him from service in 1984. The High Court held the DSP was the competent authority, the show-cause process was valid, and dismissal for such serious misconduct warranted no interference under Articles 226/227. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.",
 "court_quote": "Looking to the facts on the record, it clearly appears that for extracting confession a person was brutally beaten by the petitioner and other officers of the Police force.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld dismissal of head constable convicted under IPC 331/34 for custodial torture; conviction affirmed up to Supreme Court.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1993-01-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(1993)1 GLR 816",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1934677/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-21-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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