{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0395", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of U.P. v. Kunwargaon Police Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "State of U.P. v. Kunwargaon Police Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Budaun", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kunwargaon", "police_station_or_unit": "Kunwargaon Police Station, Budaun", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of U.P. v. Kunwargaon Police Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer & Ors.", "case_number": "Government Appeal No. 3448 of 2002", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Arun Tandon", "Rajul Bhargava" ], "judgment_date": "2017-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1994-09-12", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 343", "IPC 220" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer", "unit": "PS Kunwargaon, Budaun", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer, PS Kunwargaon, Budaun" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kunwargaon man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/117064808/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e97453d4653d048ca2b5bd0" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Kunwargaon man was picked up from his field on 5 September 1994 by Station House Officer's party and detained in the Kunwargaon police lock-up for nearly a week without being challaned in any case, during which he was regularly beaten. On 12 September 1994 kerosene was poured on him and he was set ablaze inside the police station, dying of extensive burn injuries. Independent shopkeepers opposite the station and a co-detenu supported the illegal detention and beating, and the deceased told his cousin that the SO had burnt him. The Special Judge (PC Act) acquitted all eight policemen in 2002, but the High Court held the trial court had committed a grave miscarriage of justice, reversed the SHO's acquittal and convicted him under Sections 302, 343 and 220 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment with fines, while affirming the acquittal of the seven constables. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Kunwargaon man was picked up from his field on 5 September 1994 by Station House Officer's party and detained in the Kunwargaon police lock-up for nearly a week without being challaned in any case, during which he was regularly beaten. On 12 September 1994 kerosene was poured on him and he was set ablaze inside the police station, dying of extensive burn injuries. Independent shopkeepers opposite the station and a co-detenu supported the illegal detention and beating, and the deceased told his cousin that the SO had burnt him. The Special Judge (PC Act) acquitted all eight policemen in 2002, but the High Court held the trial court had committed a grave miscarriage of justice, reversed the SHO's acquittal and convicted him under Sections 302, 343 and 220 IPC, sentencing him to life imprisonment with fines, while affirming the acquittal of the seven constables.", "court_quote": "This State appeal is allowed against respondent no.1-[name withheld] and he is held guilty for an offence punishable under Section 302, 343, 220 IPC.", "court_quote_para": "50", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC reversed acquittal, convicting SHO of murder (s.302) with life imprisonment for custodial burning death.", "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": "2017-12-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Government Appeal No. 3448 of 2002", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/117064808/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5e97453d4653d048ca2b5bd0", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }