{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0343", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable v. State of NCT of Delhi (Delhi Police personnel v. State)", "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Head Constable v. State of NCT of Delhi (Delhi Police personnel v. State)", "state": "Delhi", "district": "North Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Delhi", "police_station_or_unit": "Andha Mughal Police Post", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable v. State of NCT of Delhi (Delhi Police personnel v. State)", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 447 and 484 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla", "Uday Umesh Lalit" ], "judgment_date": "2015-12-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1980-08-01", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 34", "IPC 330" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Andha Mughal Police Post, Delhi Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "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": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Andha Mughal Police Post, Delhi Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Andha Mughal Police Post, Delhi Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "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": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Andha Mughal Police Post, Delhi Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Andha Mughal Police Post, Delhi Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "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": 0.4, "jev_p_culpable": 0.68, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Andha Mughal Police Post, Delhi Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Delhi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163386750/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.supremecourtcases.com/narender-kumar-v-state-of-nct-of-delhi/", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/createfile/67358/tp:pd" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of three Delhi policemen convicted for illegally confining a Delhi man @ a Delhi man at Andha Mughal police post from 1 to 5 August 1980, beating him every few hours to extort a theft confession, then burning him alive when the head constable poured kerosene and the constables lit matches. The Court believed the magistrate-recorded dying declaration naming all three, corroborated by extensive bruises at post-mortem, and rejected the suicide and alibi defences. All three kept life sentences under Section 302 read with Section 34 with Rs 5,000 fine, with two also serving two years under Section 330. The convictions came 35 years after the crime. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of three Delhi policemen convicted for illegally confining a Delhi man @ a Delhi man at Andha Mughal police post from 1 to 5 August 1980, beating him every few hours to extort a theft confession, then burning him alive when the head constable poured kerosene and the constables lit matches. The Court believed the magistrate-recorded dying declaration naming all three, corroborated by extensive bruises at post-mortem, and rejected the suicide and alibi defences. All three kept life sentences under Section 302 read with Section 34 with Rs 5,000 fine, with two also serving two years under Section 330. The convictions came 35 years after the crime.", "court_quote": "Having regard to our above conclusions, we do not find any merit in both the appeals. The appeals fail and the same are dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Life maintained for torturing detainee then burning him alive; dying declaration believed.", "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 death", "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 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. 447 and 484 of 2010", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2015-12-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "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)", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 447 and 484 of 2010", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163386750/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.supremecourtcases.com/narender-kumar-v-state-of-nct-of-delhi/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/createfile/67358/tp:pd", "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-30" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-028", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }