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 "record_id": "CW-2000-0014",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1245",
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 "display_title": "Gwalior Police Constable vs State of M.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Gwalior Police Constable vs State of M.P.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Gwalior",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Gwalior",
 "police_station_or_unit": "8th Battalion, Special Armed Force (SAF), Gwalior",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Gwalior Police Constable vs State of M.P.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 573 of 1989",
 "citation": "(2001) 1 MPHT 263; (2000) 06 MP CK 0025",
 "judges": [
  "A.K. Mishra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2000-06-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2000,
 "incident_date": "1982-07-23",
 "incident_year": 1982,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 307"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "8th Battalion, SAF, Gwalior",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, 8th Battalion, SAF, Gwalior"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Gwalior man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/589873/raj-dhar-vs-state-of-mp/",
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 "summary": "On the night of 23 July 1982, SAF Constable left his Quarter Guard duty post in Gwalior with his service.303 rifle and shot his neighbour, causing a firearm injury the Court noted was dangerous to life. The trial court convicted him under Section 307 IPC and imposed four years' rigorous imprisonment. The High Court held that the eyewitness account of the injured man's wife, corroborated by the appellant's absence from duty, the shortage of service cartridges and a recovered.303 cartridge, proved the charge despite the injured witness turning hostile and the missing ballistic report. The Court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, observing that the investigating agency had sided with the accused policeman throughout.",
 "summary_verified": "On the night of 23 July 1982, SAF Constable left his Quarter Guard duty post in Gwalior with his service.303 rifle and shot his neighbour, causing a firearm injury the Court noted was dangerous to life. The trial court convicted him under Section 307 IPC and imposed four years' rigorous imprisonment. The High Court held that the eyewitness account of the injured man's wife, corroborated by the appellant's absence from duty, the shortage of service cartridges and a recovered.303 cartridge, proved the charge despite the injured witness turning hostile and the missing ballistic report. The Court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, observing that the investigating agency had sided with the accused policeman throughout.",
 "court_quote": "In the result the appeal is dismissed. The conviction and sentence imposed upon the appellant is affirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; SAF constable's s.307 conviction and 4-year sentence affirmed (off-duty shooting, qualifies literally).",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2001) 1 MPHT 263; (2000) 06 MP CK 0025",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2000-06-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2001) 1 MPHT 263; (2000) 06 MP CK 0025",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  "basis": null
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-74-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}