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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0018",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1172",
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 "display_title": "State vs Delhi Police SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police) and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "State vs Delhi Police SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police) and others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Vivek Vihar",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State vs Delhi Police SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police) and others",
 "case_number": "Death Sentence Reference with connected Criminal Appeal (numbers unverified)",
 "citation": "153 (2008) DLT 693",
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 "judgment_date": "2008-03-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1987-08-24",
 "incident_year": 1987,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police)",
   "unit": "PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police), PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Delhi man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 8,
 "compensation_inr": 200000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/387672/pdf/",
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  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/663097/rp-tyagi-vs-state-govt-of-nct-of-delhi/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1316909/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. After Constable of PS Vivek Vihar was stabbed on 16.8.1987, police detained family members and neighbours, and on 24.8.1987 a Delhi man and [name withheld] were brought to the station where SHO and others at his instance severely beat them; a Delhi man died the next day at LNJP Hospital and an SDM inquest indicted the officers. The trial court (SC No. 01/2006, ASJ Karkardooma, December 2006) convicted [name withheld] under Sections 302/342/120-B IPC and sentenced him to death. The High Court declined the death reference, holding murderous intent not proved but sustaining culpability for the homicidal custodial death, and convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC with 8 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 2,00,000 fine payable to the deceased's mother [name withheld]. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal on 12.11.2009 (Crl.A. Nos. 1440-1441/2008). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "After Constable of PS Vivek Vihar was stabbed on 16.8.1987, police detained family members and neighbours, and on 24.8.1987 a Delhi man and [name withheld] were brought to the station where SHO and others at his instance severely beat them; a Delhi man died the next day at LNJP Hospital and an SDM inquest indicted the officers. The trial court (SC No. 01/2006, ASJ Karkardooma, December 2006) convicted [name withheld] under Sections 302/342/120-B IPC and sentenced him to death. The High Court declined the death reference, holding murderous intent not proved but sustaining culpability for the homicidal custodial death, and convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC with 8 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 2,00,000 fine payable to the deceased's mother [name withheld]. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal on 12.11.2009 (Crl.A. Nos. 1440-1441/2008).",
 "court_quote": "RE-SOURCE: current quote matches SC judgment para 1 recital, not the cited HC judgment; replace with a verbatim passage from the HC 05.03.2008 text once opened",
 "court_quote_para": "null (must be set from HC text)",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Death ref declined; HC convicted SHO of custodial death under IPC 304-II, 8 yrs RI + Rs 2 lakh fine.",
 "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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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2008-03-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "153 (2008) DLT 693",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": "wrong_facts",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-39-003",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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