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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0084",
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 "display_title": "Takhatpur Police Head Constable and others v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "display_title_redacted": "Takhatpur Police Head Constable and others v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Bilaspur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Takhatpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur",
 "court": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Takhatpur Police Head Constable and others v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Deepak Gupta",
  "P. Sam Koshy"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-09-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "1992-01-06",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "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 II",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 331"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2_gpt56:unclear"
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "unclear",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.18,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.92,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_gpt56:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "unclear",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.4,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.81,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, PS Takhatpur, Bilaspur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Takhatpur man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/99856664/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. A Takhatpur man, a labourer suspected of theft at his employer's house, was taken by PS Takhatpur police from his village on 5/6 January 1992 and beaten with lathis through the night at a school building in Bandha for 14-15 hours; he died en route to hospital. The trial court convicted two policemen and two civilians for murder. The Division Bench sustained the conviction but altered it from Section 302 to Section 304 Part II/34 IPC with ten years' rigorous imprisonment each, upheld the Section 331 IPC conviction for grievous hurt to extort confession, and set aside Section 149. The court relied on D.K. Basu in condemning the custodial torture; the incident predates Chhattisgarh's formation, when the area was in Madhya Pradesh. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Takhatpur man, a labourer suspected of theft at his employer's house, was taken by PS Takhatpur police from his village on 5/6 January 1992 and beaten with lathis through the night at a school building in Bandha for 14-15 hours; he died en route to hospital. The trial court convicted two policemen and two civilians for murder. The Division Bench sustained the conviction but altered it from Section 302 to Section 304 Part II/34 IPC with ten years' rigorous imprisonment each, upheld the Section 331 IPC conviction for grievous hurt to extort confession, and set aside Section 149. The court relied on D.K. Basu in condemning the custodial torture; the incident predates Chhattisgarh's formation, when the area was in Madhya Pradesh.",
 "court_quote": "We are dealing with a case where protectors and enforcers of law have taken the law into their own hands and they alongwith complainant party have beaten a tribal to death only on the suspicion of theft of some money.",
 "court_quote_para": "23",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "4 criminal appeals verified on Indian Kanoon; 302 to 304-II (10 yr RI), s.331 upheld.",
 "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 Chhattisgarh High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2016-09-28",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeals No. 1080, 1082, 1136 and 1147 of 2001",
   "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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/99856664/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "CHHATT-014",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}