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 "merged_id": "CWC-0911",
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 "display_title": "State through Central Bureau of Investigation, Special Crime Branch, Mumbai v. Margao Police Inspector and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "State through Central Bureau of Investigation, Special Crime Branch, Mumbai v. Margao Police Inspector and others",
 "state": "Goa",
 "district": "South Goa",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Margao",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Margao Town Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "State through Central Bureau of Investigation, Special Crime Branch, Mumbai v. Margao Police Inspector and others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1610-1611 of 2007",
 "citation": "(2017) 16 SCC 54",
 "judges": [
  "Ranjan Gogoi",
  "Navin Sinha"
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 "judgment_date": "2017-09-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "1994-05-17",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc",
 "sections": [
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  "IPC 34"
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   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "display": "Inspector, Margao Town Police Station"
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   "rank": "Constable",
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   "display": "Constable, Margao Town Police Station"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Margao resident"
  }
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 "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://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2005/23366/23366_2005_Order_07-Sep-2017.pdf",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Margao resident, an accused in Crime No. 141/1994, was apprehended on the midnight of 16 May 1994 and brought healthy to Margao Town Police Station, where he was interrogated by Inspector and Constable and lodged in the lockup around 1:30 a.m. The Court recorded that he was brought dead to hospital at 2:40 a.m. with 14 ante-mortem injuries sufficient in the ordinary course to cause death. The trial court had convicted both officers under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC, but the Bombay High Court acquitted them. The Supreme Court held the alibi false, the custody records fudged, and the two officers responsible, setting aside the acquittal, convicting both, and imposing the maximum 10 years rigorous imprisonment each. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Margao resident, an accused in Crime No. 141/1994, was apprehended on the midnight of 16 May 1994 and brought healthy to Margao Town Police Station, where he was interrogated by Inspector and Constable and lodged in the lockup around 1:30 a.m. The Court recorded that he was brought dead to hospital at 2:40 a.m. with 14 ante-mortem injuries sufficient in the ordinary course to cause death. The trial court had convicted both officers under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC, but the Bombay High Court acquitted them. The Supreme Court held the alibi false, the custody records fudged, and the two officers responsible, setting aside the acquittal, convicting both, and imposing the maximum 10 years rigorous imprisonment each.",
 "court_quote": "Having regard to the circumstances and the absence of any cogent explanation on the part of the accused respondents and taking into account the fact that the deceased was in Police custody and death had occurred in such custody, we are of the view that it is the accused respondents (accused Nos.2 and 5) who, to the exclusion of any other persons, were responsible for the injuries that caused the death of the deceased [name withheld].",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC reversed HC acquittal and convicted inspector and constable for 1994 custodial death.",
 "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": [
  {
   "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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  {
   "date": "2017-09-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2017) 16 SCC 54",
   "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)",
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