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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0019",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0948",
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 "display_title": "West Bengal Police Constable v. State of West Bengal",
 "display_title_redacted": "West Bengal Police Constable v. State of West Bengal",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Hooghly",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Uttarpara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarpara Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
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 "case_title": "West Bengal Police Constable v. State of West Bengal",
 "case_number": "CRA 310 of 2008",
 "citation": "(2015) 01 CAL CK 0031",
 "judges": [
  "S. Chatterjee",
  "Nishita Mhatre"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-01-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2003-09-04",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "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 304 Part II"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "West Bengal Police (vehicle-check duty, Ballykhal, G.T. Road, Uttarpara)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, West Bengal Police (vehicle-check duty, Ballykhal, G.T. Road, Uttarpara)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Uttarpara resident"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 6.83,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/871382/purnendu-samanta-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 0.30 a.m. on 4 September 2003 constable, on routine two-wheeler checking duty at Ballykhal on G.T. Road, Uttarpara, blocked the road to stop a yellow Hero Honda motorcycle that had sped past the first picket and fired a shot from his service revolver, killing the rider. The trial court convicted him under Section 302 IPC with life imprisonment plus Rs. 10,000 fine on 18 April 2008. The court held there was no dispute he was on duty and that he fired in good faith in due discharge of duty without intent to kill, so the act fell under Exception 3 to Section 300 IPC. It set aside the murder conviction, convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC instead, and held the 6 years 10 months already undergone commensurate, ordering release if not required in any other case. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Around 0.30 a.m. on 4 September 2003 constable, on routine two-wheeler checking duty at Ballykhal on G.T. Road, Uttarpara, blocked the road to stop a yellow Hero Honda motorcycle that had sped past the first picket and fired a shot from his service revolver, killing the rider. The trial court convicted him under Section 302 IPC with life imprisonment plus Rs. 10,000 fine on 18 April 2008. The court held there was no dispute he was on duty and that he fired in good faith in due discharge of duty without intent to kill, so the act fell under Exception 3 to Section 300 IPC. It set aside the murder conviction, convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC instead, and held the 6 years 10 months already undergone commensurate, ordering release if not required in any other case.",
 "court_quote": "The conviction of the appellant under Section 302 of the IPC is set aside. Instead, he is convicted under Section 304 Part II.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "On-duty fatal shooting reduced from murder to s.304-II; 6y10m undergone held sufficient.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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"
  }
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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": "(2015) 01 CAL CK 0031",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2015-01-29",
   "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": "(2015) 01 CAL CK 0031",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-15-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}