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 "display_title": "Ishwari Ram vs State of U.P.",
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 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Nainital",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kaladhungi",
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 "court": "Uttarakhand High Court",
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 "case_title": "Ishwari Ram vs State of U.P.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 265 of 2001",
 "citation": "(2008) CriLJ 4163",
 "judges": [
  "Prafulla C. Pant",
  "Dharam Veer"
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 "judgment_date": "2008-06-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1991-02-28",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "category": "Other",
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 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 307"
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   "name": "Ishwari Ram",
   "rank": "Constable (No. 438, Armed Police)",
   "unit": "Sub-treasury guard, Kaladhungi, Nainital",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kaladhungi man"
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   "gender": "male",
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 "summary": "Replace closing boilerplate to note the appellant's recorded defence (denial; motive/contradiction pleas at paras 10-13, rejected). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Replace closing boilerplate to note the appellant's recorded defence (denial; motive/contradiction pleas at paras 10-13, rejected).",
 "court_quote": "For the reasons, as discussed above, we do not find any error of law or that of the fact committed by the trial Court in convicting the accused under Sections 302 and 307, I.P.C. We concur with the conviction recorded by the trial Court and sentences awarded by said Court to the accused/appellant-Ishwari Ram. Therefore, the appeal is liable to be dismissed.",
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 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; life plus 5 years RI confirmed, bail cancelled, surrender ordered.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
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   "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.",
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   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Uttarakhand High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
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   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "date": "2008-06-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
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   "description": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
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   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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  {
   "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)",
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