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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0031",
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 "display_title": "Silchar Police Daroga (In-charge) and others vs State of Assam",
 "display_title_redacted": "Silchar Police Daroga (In-charge) and others vs State of Assam",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Cachar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Silchar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Silchar Police Daroga (In-charge) and others vs State of Assam",
 "case_number": "Crl. Appeal Nos. 272/01, 274/01 and 292/01",
 "citation": "(2004) 3 GLR 77",
 "judges": [
  "D. Biswas",
  "Amitava Roy"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-11-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "1996-08-24",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
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  "IPC 34"
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
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   "display": "Daroga (In-charge), Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
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    "key2_gpt:unclear"
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar"
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    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_gpt:unclear"
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   "display": "Constable, Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar",
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    "key2_gpt:unclear"
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
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   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Malugram Town Outpost, Silchar"
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Silchar man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 6,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/649424/",
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 "summary": "The Gauhati High Court sustained the convictions of four Malugram Town Outpost policemen for torturing detainee a Silchar man to death over 24-26 August 1996. Arrested on the night of 24 August, he was repeatedly taken from the lock-up and assaulted at the appellants' will, sustaining 41 injuries to which the Court attributed his death. The Court ruled out the intent for murder and altered the two Section 302 convictions to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34, sentencing [name withheld] and [name withheld] to six years' rigorous imprisonment with Rs 25,000 fine each. It maintained the four-year sentences of constables and [name withheld] and cancelled their bail bonds. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gauhati High Court sustained the convictions of four Malugram Town Outpost policemen for torturing detainee a Silchar man to death over 24-26 August 1996. Arrested on the night of 24 August, he was repeatedly taken from the lock-up and assaulted at the appellants' will, sustaining 41 injuries to which the Court attributed his death. The Court ruled out the intent for murder and altered the two Section 302 convictions to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34, sentencing [name withheld] and [name withheld] to six years' rigorous imprisonment with Rs 25,000 fine each. It maintained the four-year sentences of constables and [name withheld] and cancelled their bail bonds.",
 "court_quote": "Death was the cumulative effect of the 41 injuries found all over his body.",
 "court_quote_para": "58",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "All four convictions sustained (two altered 302 to 304-II); 6-yr max verified.",
 "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": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Gauhati High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gauhati High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2004) 3 GLR 77",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2003-11-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gauhati High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gauhati High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2004) 3 GLR 77",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/649424/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "ASSAM-018",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}