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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0872",
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 "display_title": "In Re: Superintendent of Police and Others (Sasaram court incident dated 19.01.2002)",
 "display_title_redacted": "In Re: Superintendent of Police and Others (Sasaram court incident dated 19.01.2002)",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Rohtas",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sasaram",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Bikramganj Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "case_title": "In Re: Superintendent of Police and Others (Sasaram court incident dated 19.01.2002)",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 1220 of 2002",
 "citation": "(2003) 03 PAT CK 0015",
 "judges": [
  "S. N. Jha",
  "Narayan Roy",
  "R. S. Garg"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-03-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "2002-01-19",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.2(c)",
  "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12",
  "CrPC s.349"
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   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
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   "role": "convicted",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bikramganj Police Station, Rohtas"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Sasaram, Rohtas",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sasaram, Rohtas"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sasaram man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/735793/in-re-superintendent-of-police-and-others/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Delete tore-the-uniform-of-a Sasaram man clause. Correct final sentence to: Twelve other officers were exonerated (para 34) along with the SP (paras 16-19). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Delete tore-the-uniform-of-a Sasaram man clause. Correct final sentence to: Twelve other officers were exonerated (para 34) along with the SP (paras 16-19).",
 "court_quote": "I would accordingly hold that SI [name withheld] too guilty of contempt.",
 "court_quote_para": "27",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC convicted 4 Rohtas police officers of criminal contempt for mob attack on Sasaram court; 3 SIs jailed 2 months, DySP fined.",
 "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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 "allegations": [
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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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2003-03-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2003) 03 PAT CK 0015",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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   ]
  }
 ],
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-45-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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