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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Shivamogga Police Police Constable & Others vs State of Karnataka",
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 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Shivamogga",
 "district_at_time": "Shimoga",
 "city_town": "Shivamogga",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Doddapet Police Station, Shivamogga",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Shivamogga Police Police Constable & Others vs State of Karnataka",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 382 of 2003",
 "citation": "2010 (3) SCR 883",
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 "judgment_date": "2009-12-03",
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 "incident_date": "1988-01-13",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shivamogga man"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shivamogga man"
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   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shivamogga man"
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  {
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   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shivamogga man"
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   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 5,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": 40000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/88631322/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. In the early hours of 13 January 1988, Doddapet police picked up five men over a New Year liquor-bar brawl and beat them in the lock-up and verandah — three victims were tied to stone pillars and thrashed with lathis and tyre pieces. A Shivamogga man (24 injuries) and a Shivamogga man (40 injuries) died in the station while a Shivamogga man and others were seriously injured. The trial court convicted the policemen for murder; after a split verdict in the High Court, the third judge convicted under Section 304 Part II with one year's RI. The Supreme Court dismissed the policemen's appeal, holding the deaths were caused by cruel thrashing in custody and the defence of injuries by fall was false, upholding one year's RI plus Rs 5,000 fine each (Rs 40,000 total, payable to the heirs of the two deceased).",
 "summary_verified": "In the early hours of 13 January 1988, Doddapet police picked up five men over a New Year liquor-bar brawl and beat them in the lock-up and verandah — three victims were tied to stone pillars and thrashed with lathis and tyre pieces. A Shivamogga man (24 injuries) and a Shivamogga man (40 injuries) died in the station while a Shivamogga man and others were seriously injured. The trial court convicted the policemen for murder; after a split verdict in the High Court, the third judge convicted under Section 304 Part II with one year's RI. The Supreme Court dismissed the policemen's appeal, holding the deaths were caused by cruel thrashing in custody and the defence of injuries by fall was false, upholding one year's RI plus Rs 5,000 fine each (Rs 40,000 total, payable to the heirs of the two deceased).",
 "court_quote": "A fair reading of the testimony of this witness makes it abundantly clear that the appellants had subjected the two deceased to severe beating because of which they had died in the police station. Thus by ocular version the prosecution has proved its case against the appellants beyond reasonable doubt.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court dismissed the policemen's appeal and upheld conviction under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC with one year's rigorous imprisonment and fine for the custodial beating deaths of two detainees.",
 "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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  {
   "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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   "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": "2010 (3) SCR 883",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2009-12-03",
   "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": "2010 (3) SCR 883",
   "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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