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 "record_id": "CW-2004-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1110",
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 "display_title": "Sangli District Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sangli District Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Sangli",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sangli",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sangli Police Headquarters (magazine-room/guard-room duty)",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Sangli District Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 522 of 1997",
 "citation": "(2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678",
 "judges": [
  "Y. K. Sabharwal",
  "Arijit Pasayat"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2004-03-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "1983-07-18",
 "incident_year": 1983,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 307",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.27"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Sangli District Police Headquarters, Maharashtra Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Sangli District Police Headquarters, Maharashtra Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Sangli man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1930505/",
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  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ae05e4b0149711412b8b"
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of policeman for attempting to murder his sleeping colleague-relative a Sangli man with a service.303 rifle at the Sangli police headquarters guard room on 18 July 1983. The Court held intention and knowledge under Section 307 IPC proved, the bullet having struck the cot springs with splinters piercing the victim's leg, and sustained the Bombay High Court's upgrade of the trial court's Section 324 conviction to Section 307. It observed that a guardian of law firing in a public place deserved severe punishment but reduced the Section 307 term from ten to five years' RI given the peculiar background. The Arms Act conviction was maintained; the appeal otherwise stands dismissed.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of policeman for attempting to murder his sleeping colleague-relative a Sangli man with a service.303 rifle at the Sangli police headquarters guard room on 18 July 1983. The Court held intention and knowledge under Section 307 IPC proved, the bullet having struck the cot springs with splinters piercing the victim's leg, and sustained the Bombay High Court's upgrade of the trial court's Section 324 conviction to Section 307. It observed that a guardian of law firing in a public place deserved severe punishment but reduced the Section 307 term from ten to five years' RI given the peculiar background. The Arms Act conviction was maintained; the appeal otherwise stands dismissed.",
 "court_quote": "Both intention and knowledge in terms of Section 307 can be attributed to the accused. Therefore, the High Court was justified in recording conviction of the accused-appellant under Section 307 IPC.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Police accused's s.307 IPC + Arms Act conviction upheld (private/family dispute, not colour of duty); sentence cut 10 to 5 years RI.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
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   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2004-03-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2004) 9 SCC 31; AIR 2004 SC 2678",
   "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",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-128-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}