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 "record_id": "CW-2014-0017",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1183",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable vs State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Head Constable vs State",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "North East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": "East Delhi",
 "city_town": "Shahdara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Seema Puri",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable vs State",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 99/2000",
 "citation": "(2014) 1 ILR 773",
 "judges": [
  "S.P. Garg"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2014-01-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "1996-05-12",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 34",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.27"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Delhi Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "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": "Head Constable, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Shahdara man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/51794509/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/404440/liyakat-ali-appellant-hash-state-respondent/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. Delhi Police Head Constable fired his issued 9mm service revolver at a Shahdara man during a late-night quarrel between two groups near Shahdara on 12 May 1996, inflicting a bullet injury that hospitalised the victim for several days. The Sessions Court convicted him under Section 307/34 IPC and Section 27 of the Arms Act in January 1999 while acquitting his two co-accused. The Delhi High Court held he had misused his official weapon, fired at a vital organ without reasonable apprehension and fled, and that he deserved no leniency given his nexus with criminals. It affirmed the conviction and sentence, dismissed the appeal and directed him to surrender on 6 February 2014 to serve the remaining sentence.",
 "summary_verified": "Delhi Police Head Constable fired his issued 9mm service revolver at a Shahdara man during a late-night quarrel between two groups near Shahdara on 12 May 1996, inflicting a bullet injury that hospitalised the victim for several days. The Sessions Court convicted him under Section 307/34 IPC and Section 27 of the Arms Act in January 1999 while acquitting his two co-accused. The Delhi High Court held he had misused his official weapon, fired at a vital organ without reasonable apprehension and fled, and that he deserved no leniency given his nexus with criminals. It affirmed the conviction and sentence, dismissed the appeal and directed him to surrender on 6 February 2014 to serve the remaining sentence.",
 "court_quote": "Instead of using the official weapon for the purpose it was issued, he associated with criminals and went to the spot where there was quarrel over sharing of money among the two groups. The appellant had direct nexus with the individuals having criminal background and assisted them in their fight against the other.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; s.307/Arms Act conviction for service-weapon shooting sustained.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2014) 1 ILR 773",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2014-01-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2014) 1 ILR 773",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/404440/liyakat-ali-appellant-hash-state-respondent/",
   "link_checked": null
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-41-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}