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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0051",
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 "display_title": "The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Bhagalpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Sabour",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sabour Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors",
 "case_number": "Govt. Appeal (SJ) No. 65 of 1990",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Dharnidhar Jha"
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 "judgment_date": "2011-05-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2011,
 "incident_date": "1980-07-25",
 "incident_year": 1980,
 "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_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 326",
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 220"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "unit": "Sabour Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
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   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Sabour Police Station"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Personnel",
   "unit": "Sabour Police Station",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.08,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Personnel, Sabour Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sabour man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sabour man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1688817/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/767158/pdf/?view=inline",
  "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/bihar-election/news/bhagalpur-blindings-case-operation-gangajal-congress-bjp-136220354.html"
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 "summary": "In the infamous Bhagalpur blindings case, the Patna High Court allowed the CBI's appeal against the judgment of acquittal passed by the 14th Additional Sessions Judge, Patna, and restored the conviction and sentence against police Officer-in-[name withheld] and police personnel [name withheld]. The accused policemen had rounded up victims a Sabour man and a Sabour man from villages under Sabour Police Station on July 25, 1980, confined them in a school and the police station, and pierced their eyes with a sharp takua before pouring corrosive acid. Holding the lower appellate court's acquittal perverse and unsupported by evidence, the High Court convicted both policemen under Sections 326, 120B, and 220 IPC and directed them to surrender to serve their sentences of rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "In the infamous Bhagalpur blindings case, the Patna High Court allowed the CBI's appeal against the judgment of acquittal passed by the 14th Additional Sessions Judge, Patna, and restored the conviction and sentence against police Officer-in-[name withheld] and police personnel [name withheld]. The accused policemen had rounded up victims a Sabour man and a Sabour man from villages under Sabour Police Station on July 25, 1980, confined them in a school and the police station, and pierced their eyes with a sharp takua before pouring corrosive acid. Holding the lower appellate court's acquittal perverse and unsupported by evidence, the High Court convicted both policemen under Sections 326, 120B, and 220 IPC and directed them to surrender to serve their sentences of rigorous imprisonment.",
 "court_quote": "The acquittal of respondent [name withheld] and Sri [name withheld] is hereby set aside. The judgment of conviction and the order of sentence passed upon [name withheld] and [name withheld] by the trial Magistrate is restored.",
 "court_quote_para": "42",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC set aside acquittal and convicted police officers and [name withheld] for Bhagalpur blinding of undertrials.",
 "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 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": "2011-05-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Govt. Appeal (SJ) No. 65 of 1990",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "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",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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  {
   "url": "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/bihar-election/news/bhagalpur-blindings-case-operation-gangajal-congress-bjp-136220354.html",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-003",
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 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}