{ "record_id": "CW-2010-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0490", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1442" ], "display_title": "Central Bureau of Investigation vs Kishore Singh and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Central Bureau of Investigation vs Kishore Singh and Others", "state": "Rajasthan", "district": "Barmer", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barmer", "police_station_or_unit": "Sadar Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Central Bureau of Investigation vs Kishore Singh and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 2047-2049 of 2010", "citation": "(2011) 6 SCC 369", "judges": [ "T.S. Thakur", "Markandey Katju" ], "judgment_date": "2010-10-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "1994-02-02", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 326", "IPC 342", "IPC 120B" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Kishore Singh", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Sadar Police Station", "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": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Kishore Singh", "display": "Kishore Singh (Constable)" }, { "name": "Sumer Dan", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Sadar Police Station", "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": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Sumer Dan", "display": "Sumer Dan (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": "Sohan Singh", "rank": "SHO", "unit": "Sadar Police Station", "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": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Sohan Singh", "display": "Sohan Singh (SHO)" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barmer man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 5, "compensation_inr": 110000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1473938/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/905397/central-bureau-investigation-c-b-vs-kishore-singh", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/665692/central-bureau-of-investigation-appellant-hash-kishore-singh-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Barmer man, a liquor-shop employee, was locked up at Sadar Police Station from 2 to 5 February 1994 without production before a Magistrate, beaten, and on 5 February 1994 his penis was chopped off with a razor inside the station. The trial court convicted all three policemen but the Rajasthan High Court acquitted the SHO and ASI and reduced the constable's sentence. The Supreme Court allowed the CBI appeals, set aside both acquittals, and held policemen who commit such crimes deserve harsher punishment than others. It sentenced constable Kishore Singh to 5 years RI under Section 326 with Rs 50,000 fine, ASI Sumer Dan to 3 years RI under Section 326/120B with Rs 50,000 fine, and SHO Sohan Singh to 6 months SI under Section 342 with Rs 10,000 fine, directing all fines to be paid to the victim as compensation. This Supreme Court judgment set aside the acquittals recorded in the High Court judgment covered by a companion record of this dataset; the final status of the accused police personnel under this judgment is convicted. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Barmer man, a liquor-shop employee, was locked up at Sadar Police Station from 2 to 5 February 1994 without production before a Magistrate, beaten, and on 5 February 1994 his penis was chopped off with a razor inside the station. The trial court convicted all three policemen but the Rajasthan High Court acquitted the SHO and ASI and reduced the constable's sentence. The Supreme Court allowed the CBI appeals, set aside both acquittals, and held policemen who commit such crimes deserve harsher punishment than others. It sentenced constable Kishore Singh to 5 years RI under Section 326 with Rs 50,000 fine, ASI Sumer Dan to 3 years RI under Section 326/120B with Rs 50,000 fine, and SHO Sohan Singh to 6 months SI under Section 342 with Rs 10,000 fine, directing all fines to be paid to the victim as compensation.", "court_quote": "In our opinion, policemen who commit criminal acts deserve harsher punishment than other persons who commit such acts, because it is the duty of the policemen to protect the people, and not break the law themselves.", "court_quote_para": "31", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "CBI appeals allowed; acquittals set aside, 5y/3y RI with fines to victim.", "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 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" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2010-10-25", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2011) 6 SCC 369", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1473938/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/905397/central-bureau-investigation-c-b-vs-kishore-singh", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/665692/central-bureau-of-investigation-appellant-hash-kishore-singh-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-31", "chunk-44" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-008", "officers_named_public": 3, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }