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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0407",
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 "display_title": "Constable Harish Chand Pandey vs The State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Constable Harish Chand Pandey vs The State",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Udham Singh Nagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Khatima",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Security guard detail, Rastogi (Prabhat) Farm, Khatima",
 "court": "Uttarakhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Constable Harish Chand Pandey vs The State",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 481 of 2001",
 "citation": "(2009) NCC 808; (2009) 07 UK CK 0062",
 "judges": [
  "Prafulla C. Pant",
  "Brahma Singh Verma"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2009-07-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "1992-08-22",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Harish Chand Pandey",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Armed Police, Khatima",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Harish Chand Pandey",
   "display": "Harish Chand Pandey (Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Khatima man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
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  "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?CaseId=129002322000&Title=CONSTABLE-HARISH-CHAND-PANDEY-Vs.-STATE"
 ],
 "summary": "Replace closing boilerplate to note the appellant's recorded defence (s.313 admissions/denials; pleas of poor light, no motive and drunkenness for s.304 Part I, all rejected at paras 11-13). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Replace closing boilerplate to note the appellant's recorded defence (s.313 admissions/denials; pleas of poor light, no motive and drunkenness for s.304 Part I, all rejected at paras 11-13).",
 "court_quote": "From the above oral evidence on record, as discussed above, read with the autopsy report (Ext. A -5) and the report of the Forensic Expert (Ext. A -16) in which it is mentioned that after examination it was found that the empty cartridges sent to the laboratory were found to have been fired from the Rifle No. 84C/5209 (recovered from accused Harish Chand Pandey), establishes on the record that Harish Chand Pandey has committed murder of his colleague a Khatima man",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "On-duty murder of fellow officer with service rifle; life + fine confirmed. Borderline scope (police victim).",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
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  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Uttarakhand High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Uttarakhand High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2009) NCC 808; (2009) 07 UK CK 0062",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2009-07-28",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Uttarakhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "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)",
   "source": "(2009) NCC 808; (2009) 07 UK CK 0062",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "UTTARA-004",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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