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 "display_title": "Randhikpur Police Police Sub-Inspector v. The State of Gujarat (B. case; CBI v. [name withheld] and Others)",
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 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1020-1023 of 2009, 487 of 2010; CBI appeals against acquittal Nos. 194 of 2011, 271 of 2011",
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 "judges": [
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  "Mridula Bhatkar"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Randhikpur woman",
   "name": null
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a woman"
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 "sentence_type": "mixed",
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 "compensation_inr": 140000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/193835523/",
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  "https://www.legalindia.com/news/bilkis-case-bombay-hc-upholds-life-sentence-12-sets-aside-acquittal-seven",
  "http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article8694.html"
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 "summary": "On the CBI appeal against acquittal in the a woman gang-rape and murder trial, the Bombay High Court set aside the acquittal of five policemen (A13, A14, A15, A16, A18) and two doctors and convicted them under Sections 201 and 218 IPC. The Court held they suppressed facts, botched the inquest and post-mortem, and filed a false A-summary closure report to screen the offenders. Each was sentenced to the period already undergone plus Rs 5,000 fine under Section 201 and Rs 15,000 fine under Section 218, with all fine amounts directed to be paid to the prosecutrix as compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On the CBI appeal against acquittal in the [name withheld] gang-rape and murder trial, the Bombay High Court set aside the acquittal of five policemen (A13, A14, A15, A16, A18) and two doctors and convicted them under Sections 201 and 218 IPC. The Court held they suppressed facts, botched the inquest and post-mortem, and filed a false A-summary closure report to screen the offenders. Each was sentenced to the period already undergone plus Rs 5,000 fine under Section 201 and Rs 15,000 fine under Section 218, with all fine amounts directed to be paid to the prosecutrix as compensation.",
 "court_quote": "All the acts of commission and omission of the police and the medical officers cannot be examined in isolation but they are well connected with each other in a chain of suppression of facts causing disappearance of the evidence with intent to screen the offenders and save them from punishment.",
 "court_quote_para": "370",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC reversed acquittal; 5 policemen convicted under IPC 201/218 for screening offenders.",
 "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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  {
   "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2017-05-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1020-1023 of 2009, 487 of 2010; CBI appeals against acquittal Nos. 194 of 2011, 271 of 2011",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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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