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 "record_id": "CW-2006-0027",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1113",
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 "display_title": "State Reserve Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "State Reserve Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "State Reserve Police, Maharashtra",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State Reserve Police personnel vs State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1512-1513 of 2005",
 "citation": "(2006) 12 SCC 512",
 "judges": [
  "S. B. Sinha",
  "Dalveer Bhandari"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2006-10-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2006,
 "incident_date": "1988-09-03",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": null,
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "State Reserve Police, Maharashtra",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, State Reserve Police, Maharashtra"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Maharashtra woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1160791/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of [name withheld], an employee of the State Reserve Police, against his concurrent conviction under Section 302 IPC for the murder of a Maharashtra woman on 3 September 1988. The Court credited the last-seen evidence of PWs 1, 3 and 4, corroborated by medical evidence, and held absence of proved motive immaterial in a circumstantial case of this kind. It found the circumstances amply supported the prosecution case and dismissed the appeal, leaving the courts-below sentence standing. The offence was private-context, not under colour of police duty; the SC text states no district or sentence terms. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of [name withheld], an employee of the State Reserve Police, against his concurrent conviction under Section 302 IPC for the murder of a Maharashtra woman on 3 September 1988. The Court credited the last-seen evidence of PWs 1, 3 and 4, corroborated by medical evidence, and held absence of proved motive immaterial in a circumstantial case of this kind. It found the circumstances amply supported the prosecution case and dismissed the appeal, leaving the courts-below sentence standing. The offence was private-context, not under colour of police duty; the SC text states no district or sentence terms.",
 "court_quote": "We, therefore, have no hesitation in affirming the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge as also the High Court and hold that the circumstances brought on record by the prosecution clearly demonstrate that it was Appellant alone who committed the murder and in that view of the matter absence of motive would be immaterial.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Murder conviction of serving SRP employee upheld on last-seen + medical evidence (private-context offence); sentence terms unstated.",
 "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 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": "(2006) 12 SCC 512",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2006-10-19",
   "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": "(2006) 12 SCC 512",
   "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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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1160791/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-129-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}