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 "display_title": "Barmer Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan (with Kishore Singh vs State; [name withheld] vs State)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Barmer Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan (with Kishore Singh vs State; [name withheld] vs State)",
 "state": "Rajasthan",
 "district": "Barmer",
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 "city_town": "Barmer",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sadar Police Station, Barmer",
 "court": "Rajasthan High Court",
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 "bench": "Jodhpur",
 "case_title": "Barmer Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan (with Kishore Singh vs State; [name withheld] vs State)",
 "case_number": "S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 31/2006 with D.B. Criminal Appeal No. 235/2006 and S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 70/2006",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A.M. Kapadia",
  "Deo Narayan Thanvi"
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 "judgment_date": "2008-11-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1994-02-01",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
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  "IPC 342"
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Kishore Singh",
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   "rank": "Station House Officer",
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
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    "key2_union:no",
    "key2_openrouter:no"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Station Sadar, Barmer"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Barmer man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "compensation_inr": 100000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/999298/",
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur partly allowed the appeals of three policemen convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track), Balotra, for the February 1994 illegal confinement, beating and castration of a Barmer man, who was locked in the barrack of Sadar Police Station, Barmer for four days while Rs 30-40 thousand was demanded for his release. The Court acquitted SHO and ASI of all charges, but maintained Constable Kishore Singh conviction for grievous hurt under Section 326 IPC, reducing the life term to the period already undergone (about four years) while enhancing the fine to Rs 1 lakh payable to the injured complainant, and altering his wrongful-confinement conviction from Section 343 to Section 342 IPC with one year rigorous imprisonment concurrent. The CBI had investigated the case and the Court held custodial punishment with enhanced fine sufficient on the totality of facts. [name withheld] and [name withheld] were acquitted in this judgment, but their acquittals were later set aside by the Supreme Court in the appeal covered by a companion record of this dataset, under which their final status is convicted. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur partly allowed the appeals of three policemen convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track), Balotra, for the February 1994 illegal confinement, beating and castration of a Barmer man, who was locked in the barrack of Sadar Police Station, Barmer for four days while Rs 30-40 thousand was demanded for his release. The Court acquitted SHO and ASI of all charges, but maintained Constable Kishore Singh conviction for grievous hurt under Section 326 IPC, reducing the life term to the period already undergone (about four years) while enhancing the fine to Rs 1 lakh payable to the injured complainant, and altering his wrongful-confinement conviction from Section 343 to Section 342 IPC with one year rigorous imprisonment concurrent. The CBI had investigated the case and the Court held custodial punishment with enhanced fine sufficient on the totality of facts.",
 "court_quote": "While acquitting appellant Kishore Singh of the offences u/ss.323, 308 and 120B read with 343, 323, 384, 326 & 308 IPC, his conviction for the offence u/s.326 IPC is maintained and he is sentenced to the period already undergone, instead of life imprisonment.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rajasthan High Court maintained s.326 conviction of Constable Kishore Singh for castrating detenu [name withheld], reducing life term to period undergone (~4 years) with Rs 1 lakh fine to victim; SHO and ASI acquitted.",
 "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"
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  {
   "category": "Custodial torture",
   "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 Rajasthan High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Rajasthan High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 31/2006 with D.B. Criminal Appeal No. 235/2006 and S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 70/2006",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2008-11-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Rajasthan High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Rajasthan High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 31/2006 with D.B. Criminal Appeal No. 235/2006 and S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 70/2006",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "final_outcome_url": null,
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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)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/999298/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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 },
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 "merged_case_id": "RAJAST-005",
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 "watch": "babuwatch"
}