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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0008",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0392",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Bhoopat Singh v. J.B. Kataria and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bhoopat Singh v. J.B. Kataria and Ors.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Lalitpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sojna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Sojna, Lalitpur",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bhoopat Singh v. J.B. Kataria and Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 976-977 of 2002",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "B.N. Agrawal",
  "G.S. Singhvi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2009-08-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "1987-03-07",
 "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_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 342"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "J.B. Katariya",
   "rank": "Station Officer",
   "unit": "PS Sojna, Lalitpur",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.12,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.9,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "J.B. Katariya",
   "display": "J.B. Katariya (Station Officer)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 20,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sojna man, age 20"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 5.0,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1494641/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/17373/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110740214/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Sojna man, a young medical practitioner of village Sojna, was arrested on 7 March 1987 under Section 307 IPC and brutally assaulted by Station Officer J.B. Katariya, sustaining 18 injuries across his body before succumbing to death in police custody on 8/9 March 1987. The Special Sessions Judge, Lalitpur, convicted Katariya of murder under Section 302 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment, but the Allahabad High Court converted the conviction to Section 304 Part II IPC and reduced the sentence to two years imprisonment with a Rs 25,000 fine. On cross-appeals, the Supreme Court held that the officer mercilessly assaulted the deceased while in custody, taking undue advantage of his official position. The Supreme Court dismissed Katariya appeal, affirmed his conviction under Section 304 Part II IPC, cancelled his bail, and enhanced his sentence of imprisonment from two years to five years rigorous imprisonment.",
 "summary_verified": "A Sojna man, a young medical practitioner of village Sojna, was arrested on 7 March 1987 under Section 307 IPC and brutally assaulted by Station Officer J.B. Katariya, sustaining 18 injuries across his body before succumbing to death in police custody on 8/9 March 1987. The Special Sessions Judge, Lalitpur, convicted Katariya of murder under Section 302 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment, but the Allahabad High Court converted the conviction to Section 304 Part II IPC and reduced the sentence to two years imprisonment with a Rs 25,000 fine. On cross-appeals, the Supreme Court held that the officer mercilessly assaulted the deceased while in custody, taking undue advantage of his official position. The Supreme Court dismissed Katariya appeal, affirmed his conviction under Section 304 Part II IPC, cancelled his bail, and enhanced his sentence of imprisonment from two years to five years rigorous imprisonment.",
 "court_quote": "we consider it necessary to mention that the appellant had taken undue advantage of his position as a police officer and mercilessly assaulted the deceased while he was in police custody. As many as 18 injuries were inflicted on the person of the deceased.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court upheld s. 304 Part II IPC conviction of SO Katariya for custodial death and enhanced sentence from 2 to 5 years RI.",
 "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 Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 976-977 of 2002",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2009-08-11",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 976-977 of 2002",
   "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",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/17373/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/110740214/",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-003",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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