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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Uttarakhand Police Head Constable v. State of Uttarakhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Uttarakhand Police Head Constable v. State of Uttarakhand",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Dehradun",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Rishikesh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Rishikesh",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Uttarakhand Police Head Constable v. State of Uttarakhand",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 217 and 218 of 2006",
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 "judgment_date": "2025-01-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2004-11-15",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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  "IPC 34",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.27(1)"
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   "display": "Head Constable, Police Station Rishikesh, Uttarakhand Police"
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 "victims": [
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   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Rishikesh woman"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/191647839/",
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  "https://lawbeat.in/supreme-court-judgments/no-prior-meeting-minds-supreme-court-acquits-three-constables-fake-encounter-case"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On the night of 15 November 2004, acting on a liquor-smuggling tip, Head Constable with three constables intercepted a Maruti car near IDPL Gate, Rishikesh, and when it failed to stop, [name withheld] fired a single.38-bore shot that struck front-seat passenger a Rishikesh woman in the temple, killing her. The Sessions Judge, Dehradun convicted [name withheld] under s.302/34 IPC and s.27(1) Arms Act with life imprisonment but acquitted the three constables. The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed [name withheld]'s appeals confirming his life sentence, while additionally convicting the three constables in the State's appeal. The Supreme Court (2025 INSC 114) quashed the three constables' conviction for want of common intention but affirmed the trial judgment, leaving [name withheld]'s life conviction intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On the night of 15 November 2004, acting on a liquor-smuggling tip, Head Constable with three constables intercepted a Maruti car near IDPL Gate, Rishikesh, and when it failed to stop, [name withheld] fired a single.38-bore shot that struck front-seat passenger a Rishikesh woman in the temple, killing her. The Sessions Judge, Dehradun convicted [name withheld] under s.302/34 IPC and s.27(1) Arms Act with life imprisonment but acquitted the three constables. The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed [name withheld]'s appeals confirming his life sentence, while additionally convicting the three constables in the State's appeal. The Supreme Court (2025 INSC 114) quashed the three constables' conviction for want of common intention but affirmed the trial judgment, leaving [name withheld]'s life conviction intact.",
 "court_quote": "The High Court dismissed the first set of criminal appeals preferred by accused No.1-[name withheld] thereby confirming the judgment and order of conviction and sentence passed by the trial court.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Uttarakhand HC confirmed head constable's life term for fatal unjustified firing; SC 2025 left it intact.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "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.",
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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": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 217 and 218 of 2006",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "date": "2025-01-28",
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   "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)",
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