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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0001",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0131",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-1459"
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 "display_title": "Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat (with State of Gujarat vs [name withheld] & Ors.)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat (with State of Gujarat vs [name withheld] & Ors.)",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Ahmedabad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ahmedabad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Surveillance Squad, Naranpura Police Station, Ahmedabad City",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat (with State of Gujarat vs [name withheld] & Ors.)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 209 of 1998 with Criminal Appeal No. 203 of 1998 (Sessions Case No. 97 of 1992, Addl. Sessions Judge, Ahmedabad City)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A. M. Kapadia",
  "R. H. Shukla"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-01-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1989-01-11",
 "incident_year": 1989,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 193"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Surveillance Squad, Naranpura Police Station, Ahmedabad City",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.95,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Surveillance Squad, Naranpura Police Station, Ahmedabad City"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ahmedabad man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/19684573/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/54915645/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court held that theft suspect [name withheld], taken on seven days' police remand on 10 January 1989, died a homicidal custodial death with 34 ante-mortem lathi injuries while in the custody of PSI of the Naranpura Surveillance Squad. The Court rejected [name withheld]'s defence that the deceased fell on iron fencing while escaping, finding the death occurred in his exclusive custody. It altered his murder conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC and sentenced him to three years' rigorous imprisonment with a Rs 5,000 fine, while confirming the convictions for evidence-tampering under Sections 201 and 193 IPC. The Court dismissed the State's appeal against the acquittal of the co-accused policemen for want of proof of their presence.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court held that theft suspect [name withheld], taken on seven days' police remand on 10 January 1989, died a homicidal custodial death with 34 ante-mortem lathi injuries while in the custody of PSI of the Naranpura Surveillance Squad. The Court rejected [name withheld]'s defence that the deceased fell on iron fencing while escaping, finding the death occurred in his exclusive custody. It altered his murder conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC and sentenced him to three years' rigorous imprisonment with a Rs 5,000 fine, while confirming the convictions for evidence-tampering under Sections 201 and 193 IPC. The Court dismissed the State's appeal against the acquittal of the co-accused policemen for want of proof of their presence.",
 "court_quote": "it is duly established that A-1 has caused death of A-1 which is a custodial death and, therefore, no intention can be attributed to him however he had a knowledge and, therefore, the conviction recorded against A-1 from Sections 302/34 IPC deserves to be altered to Sections 304 Part II/34 IPC",
 "court_quote_para": "19",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on primary source: PSI custodial-death conviction altered Sec 302 to Sec 304-II/34, 3 yrs RI; State appeal dismissed.",
 "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 Gujarat High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 209 of 1998 with Criminal Appeal No. 203 of 1998 (Sessions Case No. 97 of 1992, Addl. Sessions Judge, Ahmedabad City)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2008-01-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 209 of 1998 with Criminal Appeal No. 203 of 1998 (Sessions Case No. 97 of 1992, Addl. Sessions Judge, Ahmedabad City)",
   "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",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/19684573/",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/54915645/",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-037",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}