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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Uttarakhand Police Sub-Inspector (SHO, PS Dalanwala) v. CBI (Dehradun Man fake encounter case)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Uttarakhand Police Sub-Inspector (SHO, PS Dalanwala) v. CBI (Dehradun Man fake encounter case)",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Dehradun",
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 "city_town": "Dehradun",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Dalanwala, Dehradun",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "case_title": "Uttarakhand Police Sub-Inspector (SHO, PS Dalanwala) v. CBI (Dehradun Man fake encounter case)",
 "case_number": "CRL.A. Nos. 1003/2014 and connected appeals (against Special CBI Court, Delhi; trial transferred from Dehradun)",
 "citation": "AIRONLINE 2018 DEL 2424",
 "judges": [
  "S. Muralidhar",
  "I. S. Mehta"
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 "judgment_date": "2018-02-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2009-07-03",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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   "name_public": "Gopal Dutt Bhatt (A2)",
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   "name_public": "Rajesh Bisht (A3)",
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   "name_public": "Neeraj Kumar (A4)",
   "display": "Neeraj Kumar (A4) (Sub-Inspector)"
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   "name": "Nitin Chauhan (A5)",
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   "name_public": "Nitin Chauhan (A5)",
   "display": "Nitin Chauhan (A5) (Sub-Inspector)"
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  {
   "name": "Chander Mohan Singh Rawat (A6)",
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   "name_public": "Chander Mohan Singh Rawat (A6)",
   "display": "Chander Mohan Singh Rawat (A6) (Sub-Inspector)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Ajeet Singh (A7)",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Ajeet Singh (A7)",
   "display": "Ajeet Singh (A7) (Constable)"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 20,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Dehradun man, age 20"
  }
 ],
 "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/29093853/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-seven-policemen-encounter-killing-youth-uttarakhand-read-judgment/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/dehradun-fake-encounter-case-17-policemen-awarded-life-imprisonment"
 ],
 "summary": "The Delhi High Court confirmed the life sentences (plus Rs 50,000 fine each) of seven Uttarakhand policemen for abducting 20-year-old a Dehradun man after a noon scuffle on 3 July 2009 and shooting him dead in a staged encounter near Raipur, Dehradun. Holding the police self-defence version disproved, the Court confirmed the convictions under Sections 120-B, 302 and 364 read with 120-B IPC, while acquitting A-8 to [name withheld] for want of evidence of the larger plan. The Court cancelled the bail of A-1 to A-7, directing surrender forthwith. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court confirmed the life sentences (plus Rs 50,000 fine each) of seven Uttarakhand policemen for abducting 20-year-old a Dehradun man after a noon scuffle on 3 July 2009 and shooting him dead in a staged encounter near Raipur, Dehradun. Holding the police self-defence version disproved, the Court confirmed the convictions under Sections 120-B, 302 and 364 read with 120-B IPC, while acquitting A-8 to [name withheld] for want of evidence of the larger plan. The Court cancelled the bail of A-1 to A-7, directing surrender forthwith.",
 "court_quote": "This Court confirms the conviction of A-1 to A-7 for the offences under Section 120-B IPC and Sections 302 and 364 read with Section 120-B IPC.",
 "court_quote_para": "174",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "7 life terms for fake encounter confirmed; A-8 to [name withheld] acquitted. Subcategory, victim age corrected.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "AIRONLINE 2018 DEL 2424",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2018-02-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "AIRONLINE 2018 DEL 2424",
   "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": []
  }
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