{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0112", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Patel Nagar Police Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; Kewal Kishan Arora vs C.B.I.", "display_title_redacted": "Patel Nagar Police Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; Kewal Kishan Arora vs C.B.I.", "state": "Delhi", "district": "West Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patel Nagar", "police_station_or_unit": "P.S. Patel Nagar", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Patel Nagar Police Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; Kewal Kishan Arora vs C.B.I.", "case_number": "CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Indermeet Kaur" ], "judgment_date": "2015-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1986-08-22", "incident_year": 1986, "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 304 Part I", "IPC 34", "IPC 342" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "P.S. Patel Nagar", "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": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, P.S. Patel Nagar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "P.S. Patel Nagar", "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": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, P.S. Patel Nagar" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Patel Nagar man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Patel Nagar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 10, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/44744771/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-of-police-officers-in-a-19-year-old-custodial-death-case" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court upheld the CBI-court conviction of two Patel Nagar Sub-Inspectors for beating a Patel Nagar man to death in custody over an unmet illegal demand of Rs 10,000. On the intervening night of 22-23 August 1986 the officers picked up a Patel Nagar man from home, beat him and his intervening uncle a Patel Nagar man continuously en route and at the station, and a Patel Nagar man died with ten ante-mortem blunt injuries; the police then took him to hospitals to cover up the death. Relying on the nephew's complaint-FIR corroborated by medical evidence, the Court maintained 10 years RI under Section 304-I read with Section 34 plus one year under Section 342/34 and a Rs 25,000 fine from each convict payable as compensation to the widow (Rs 50,000 total), while acquitting a constable and the CFSL Scientific Officer co-accused and setting aside the Section 218/109 convictions. The appellants denied the charges and pleaded false implication. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court upheld the CBI-court conviction of two Patel Nagar Sub-Inspectors for beating a Patel Nagar man to death in custody over an unmet illegal demand of Rs 10,000. On the intervening night of 22-23 August 1986 the officers picked up a Patel Nagar man from home, beat him and his intervening uncle a Patel Nagar man continuously en route and at the station, and a Patel Nagar man died with ten ante-mortem blunt injuries; the police then took him to hospitals to cover up the death. Relying on the nephew's complaint-FIR corroborated by medical evidence, the Court maintained 10 years RI under Section 304-I read with Section 34 plus one year under Section 342/34 and a Rs 25,000 fine from each convict payable as compensation to the widow (Rs 50,000 total), while acquitting a constable and the CFSL Scientific Officer co-accused and setting aside the Section 218/109 convictions. The appellants denied the charges and pleaded false implication.", "court_quote": "It appears that the perverted minds of the two Senior Divisional Officers was not satisfied till they had beaten Gopi to death which was only because the poor man could not meet their illegal demand of Rs.10,000/-", "court_quote_para": "69", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC conviction upheld per LiveLaw report (primary Indian Kanoon 429 at audit time); two SIs, 10 years RI each.", "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 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": "CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2015-12-22", "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": "CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012", "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": [ "compensation_inr", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/44744771/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-of-police-officers-in-a-19-year-old-custodial-death-case", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-020", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }