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 "display_title": "Gujarat Police Deputy Superintendent of Police and others v. State (B. B. case: appeals of convicted police personnel and doctors)",
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 "district": "Dahod",
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 "city_town": "Limkheda",
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 "case_title": "Gujarat Police Deputy Superintendent of Police and others v. State (B. B. case: appeals of convicted police personnel and doctors)",
 "case_number": "Appeals from Bombay High Court judgment dated 04-05-2017 (Crl.A. Nos. 1020-1023/2009 etc.)",
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 "judges": [
  "S. A. Bobde",
  "L. Nageswara Rao"
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 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2002-03-03",
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 "category": "Other",
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   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Limkheda Police Station"
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Limkheda woman",
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims_redacted": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "a woman"
  }
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 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/41203430/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-asks-2002-gujarat-riots-victim-bilkis-bano-to-approach-authorities-for-job-and-accommodation-165017",
  "https://sabrangindia.in/article/supreme-court-asks-gujarat-government-take-action-against-cops-convicted-bilkis-bano-rape",
  "https://www.twfindia.in/public/news/supreme-court-upholds-conviction-of-two-docs-four-cops-in-bilkis-bano-case/details"
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court on 10 July 2017 dismissed the appeals of four Gujarat policemen including IPS officer R.[name withheld] and two government doctors, upholding the Bombay High Court convictions under Sections 201 and 218 IPC for sabotaging the a woman gang-rape and murder probe. The Court observed they had been unreasonably acquitted by the trial court despite clear-cut evidence of mis-recording the FIR, burying bodies without proper post-mortem and filing false closure reports. The High Court had sentenced them to the period undergone with fines of Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000. In 2019 the Court separately awarded a woman 50 lakh with a job and housing and ordered disciplinary action against the convicted policemen. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 10 July 2017 dismissed the appeals of four Gujarat policemen including IPS officer R.[name withheld] and two government doctors, upholding the Bombay High Court convictions under Sections 201 and 218 IPC for sabotaging the Bilkis Bano gang-rape and murder probe. The Court observed they had been unreasonably acquitted by the trial court despite clear-cut evidence of mis-recording the FIR, burying bodies without proper post-mortem and filing false closure reports. The High Court had sentenced them to the period undergone with fines of Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000. In 2019 the Court separately awarded Bilkis Rs 50 lakh with a job and housing and ordered disciplinary action against the convicted policemen.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above, we set aside acquittal of accused Nos.13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20 under Sections 201 and 218 of IPC and we hold them guilty of the offences punishable under sections 201 and 218 of the Indian Penal Code.",
 "court_quote_para": "371",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC dismissed appeals of 4 policemen + 2 doctors; Bombay HC ss.201/218 convictions stand. Short order via reports.",
 "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": "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"
  }
 ],
 "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": "Appeals from Bombay High Court judgment dated 04-05-2017 (Crl.A. Nos. 1020-1023/2009 etc.)",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-asks-2002-gujarat-riots-victim-bilkis-bano-to-approach-authorities-for-job-and-accommodation-165017",
   "link_checked": null
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.twfindia.in/public/news/supreme-court-upholds-conviction-of-two-docs-four-cops-in-bilkis-bano-case/details",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWFALSEI-013",
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