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 "record_id": "CW-1996-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0143",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "State of Gujarat vs Vadodara Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Gujarat vs Vadodara Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Vadodara",
 "district_at_time": "Baroda",
 "city_town": "Vadodara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sayajiganj Police Station (Cycle Squad)",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Gujarat vs Vadodara Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 881 of 1984",
 "citation": "1997 (1) GLR 229",
 "judges": [
  "R. K. Abichandani",
  "R. R. Jain"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1996-09-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1996,
 "incident_date": "1980-02-18",
 "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 330",
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Cycle Squad, Sayajiganj Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Cycle Squad, Sayajiganj Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Vadodara man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": 10000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103927043/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=206991084000&title=state-of-gujarat-vs-gopalrao-bavrao-mohite"
 ],
 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court partly allowed the State acquittal appeal against the 31 March 1984 judgment of the Additional Sessions Judge, Baroda, and convicted PSI for the custodial death of cycle repairer a Vadodara man The Court found a Vadodara man was handed by PSI to [name withheld], in charge of the Cycle Squad at Sayajiganj police station, on 18 February 1980 and sustained 15 custodial injuries overnight including a fatal head injury with internal haemorrhage. It rejected the defence denial and held [name withheld] guilt proved beyond doubt, sentencing him to 3 years RI on each count concurrently plus Rs 10,000 fine payable to the widow. The acquittal of accused 2 to 6 was confirmed and the appeal abated against accused 7.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court partly allowed the State acquittal appeal against the 31 March 1984 judgment of the Additional Sessions Judge, Baroda, and convicted PSI for the custodial death of cycle repairer a Vadodara man The Court found a Vadodara man was handed by PSI to [name withheld], in charge of the Cycle Squad at Sayajiganj police station, on 18 February 1980 and sustained 15 custodial injuries overnight including a fatal head injury with internal haemorrhage. It rejected the defence denial and held [name withheld] guilt proved beyond doubt, sentencing him to 3 years RI on each count concurrently plus Rs 10,000 fine payable to the widow. The acquittal of accused 2 to 6 was confirmed and the appeal abated against accused 7.",
 "court_quote": "Death in Police custody is required to be seriously viewed and must be curbed with a heavy hand.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC acquittal-appeal judgment verified; PSI convicted, 3 years RI plus fine to widow.",
 "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": "1996-09-25",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "1997 (1) GLR 229",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103927043/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/case?caseId=206991084000&title=state-of-gujarat-vs-gopalrao-bavrao-mohite",
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  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GUJARA-014",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}