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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0041",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1157",
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 "display_title": "Nicobar Islands Police Police Constable v. The State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Nicobar Islands Police Police Constable v. The State",
 "state": "Andaman and Nicobar Islands",
 "district": "South Andaman",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Port Blair",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": "Port Blair",
 "case_title": "Nicobar Islands Police Police Constable v. The State",
 "case_number": "CRA No. 016 of 2012",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Girish Chandra Gupta",
  "Dipankar Datta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-12-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2009-12-25",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 436",
  "IPC 506-II",
  "IPC 427",
  "IPC 429",
  "IPC 324",
  "IPC 363"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Port Blair woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Port Blair man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Port Blair resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Port Blair man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 4,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 215000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e41e4a93261a672e0219",
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  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56ea9340607dba378d9d5073",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/41955619/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Off-duty police constable intruded into his estranged wife's paternal house on the night of 25/26 December 2009, dealt dah blows to a servant and his father-in-law, set the house afire with petrol, and took a minor boy hostage until overpowered by police. The Additional Sessions Judge, Port Blair convicted him under IPC sections 307/436/506-II/427/429/324/363 with life terms for sections 307 and 436 plus Rs. 2 lakh and Rs. 15,000 compensation. The Calcutta High Court's Port Blair Circuit Bench held the trial court had accurately assessed the evidence and dismissed the appeal on 17 December 2013. The Supreme Court later dismissed his appeal but reduced the life sentence to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment on 29 April 2019.",
 "summary_verified": "Off-duty police constable intruded into his estranged wife's paternal house on the night of 25/26 December 2009, dealt dah blows to a servant and his father-in-law, set the house afire with petrol, and took a minor boy hostage until overpowered by police. The Additional Sessions Judge, Port Blair convicted him under IPC sections 307/436/506-II/427/429/324/363 with life terms for sections 307 and 436 plus Rs. 2 lakh and Rs. 15,000 compensation. The Calcutta High Court's Port Blair Circuit Bench held the trial court had accurately assessed the evidence and dismissed the appeal on 17 December 2013. The Supreme Court later dismissed his appeal but reduced the life sentence to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment on 29 April 2019.",
 "court_quote": "We are of the opinion that the learned Trial Court has accurately assessed the evidence. Both the conviction and punishment are well founded. No interference is called for.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC conviction confirmed via SC order record + CaseMine snippets (primary text 403); SC later cut life to 10 yrs RI.",
 "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": "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.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
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   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "CRA No. 016 of 2012",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2013-12-17",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "CRA No. 016 of 2012",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-32-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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