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 "display_title": "Delhi Police Constable v. State of Delhi; [name withheld] v. State; [name withheld] v. State; [name withheld] v. State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Constable v. State of Delhi; [name withheld] v. State; [name withheld] v. State; [name withheld] v. State",
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 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "case_title": "Delhi Police Constable v. State of Delhi; [name withheld] v. State; [name withheld] v. State; [name withheld] v. State",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sanjiv Khanna",
  "R. K. Gauba"
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 "judgment_date": "2015-10-19",
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 "incident_date": "1992-03-17",
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 "category": "Custodial death",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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   "display": "Head Constable, AATS, North-East District"
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 "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/27016926/",
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 "summary": "The Division Bench upheld murder and wrongful-confinement convictions of four AATS (North-East) policemen for torturing a Delhi man to death. Picked up from his New Seelampur home in the early hours of 11 March 1992, he was kept in wholly unauthorised captivity, beaten over six days, and dumped critically injured at a private nursing home on 16 March 1992; he died on 17 March 1992. The court held the chain of circumstances complete and drew the custodial-death burden against the policemen, upholding Sections 302/34 and 342/34 while setting aside only the Section 330/34 count for want of extortion purpose. The convicts were directed to surrender within 15 days, and compensation to the next of kin under Section 357-A CrPC was recommended to DSLSA. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Division Bench upheld murder and wrongful-confinement convictions of four AATS (North-East) policemen for torturing a Delhi man to death. Picked up from his New Seelampur home in the early hours of 11 March 1992, he was kept in wholly unauthorised captivity, beaten over six days, and dumped critically injured at a private nursing home on 16 March 1992; he died on 17 March 1992. The court held the chain of circumstances complete and drew the custodial-death burden against the policemen, upholding Sections 302/34 and 342/34 while setting aside only the Section 330/34 count for want of extortion purpose. The convicts were directed to surrender within 15 days, and compensation to the next of kin under Section 357-A CrPC was recommended to DSLSA.",
 "court_quote": "The conviction and sentences passed for the offences under section 302 read with section 34 IPC and section 342 read with section 34 IPC are upheld against each of the four appellants.",
 "court_quote_para": "82",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld murder + wrongful-confinement convictions of 4 AATS policemen.",
 "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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 "allegations": [
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   "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"
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  {
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   "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. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2015-10-19",
   "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. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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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",
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 "merged_case_id": "DELHI-004",
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