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 "record_id": "CW-2002-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0747",
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 "display_title": "Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Kolkata",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kolkata",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Phool Bagan Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "(2002) 3 CALLT 618",
 "judges": [
  "P.K. Biswas",
  "S.K. Banerjee"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2002-05-21",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "1992-09-23",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 376",
  "IPC 366"
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Special Constable",
   "unit": "Phool Bagan Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Special Constable, Phool Bagan Police Station"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Kolkata woman, age 27",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": 27,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "the complainant"
  }
 ],
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/536057/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 2 a.m. on 23 September 1992, Special Constable of Phool Bagan Police Station, in plain clothes, twice came to pavement-dweller the complainant's jhupri on CIT Road, then forcibly took her in a police vehicle to the station, confined her in a mezzanine barrack room and raped her until about 4:40 a.m. The trial court sentenced him to life under Section 376 IPC with concurrent six years RI under Section 366 IPC. The Division Bench dismissed his appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, while acquitting the two co-appellants under Section 366 IPC for want of proof of participation. Trial reference: Sessions Trial No.1(1) of 1993, Phool Bagan P.S. Case No.108 dated 23.09.1992. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Around 2 a.m. on 23 September 1992, Special Constable of Phool Bagan Police Station, in plain clothes, twice came to pavement-dweller Nehar Banu's jhupri on CIT Road, then forcibly took her in a police vehicle to the station, confined her in a mezzanine barrack room and raped her until about 4:40 a.m. The trial court sentenced him to life under Section 376 IPC with concurrent six years RI under Section 366 IPC. The Division Bench dismissed his appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, while acquitting the two co-appellants under Section 366 IPC for want of proof of participation. Trial reference: Sessions Trial No.1(1) of 1993, Phool Bagan P.S. Case No.108 dated 23.09.1992.",
 "court_quote": "The appeal preferred by the convict/appellant [name withheld] is dismissed on contest and the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned trial Judge, so far as it relates to convict/appellant [name withheld] is, hereby, affirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Life term u/s 376 (+6y u/s 366) of Special Constable for barrack rape affirmed; co-accused acquitted.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2002) 3 CALLT 618",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2002-05-21",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2002) 3 CALLT 618",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/536057/",
   "link_checked": null
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP6-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}