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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Hailakandi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Hailakandi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Office of the Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 209 of 1993",
 "citation": "1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290",
 "judges": [
  "S.C. Sen",
  "A.M. Ahmadi"
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 "judgment_date": "1996-05-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1993-03-09",
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 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 129",
  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12",
  "Constitution of India Art. 32"
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   "rank": "Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Hailakandi, Assam",
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   "key2_union": "yes",
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   "name": null,
   "age": 35,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Hailakandi man, age 35"
  }
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 "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; SP report + affidavit + apology recorded and rejected by the Court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; SP report + affidavit + apology recorded and rejected by the Court",
 "court_quote": "We hold him guilty of contempt under Article 129 of the Constitution read with Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. Having regard to the gravity of the case, we sentence the contemner [name withheld] to undergo simple imprisonment for a term of three months.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court convicted SP Hailakandi of criminal contempt for false report/affidavit covering up custodial death of undertrial a Hailakandi man; 3 months simple imprisonment.",
 "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": "Other",
   "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": "1996-05-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
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   "source": "1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290",
   "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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