{ "record_id": "CW-2020-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0396", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajendra Giri & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation", "display_title_redacted": "Rajendra Giri & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Bijnor", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barhapur", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Barhapur (Baradhpur), Bijnor", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rajendra Giri & Ors. v. 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Singh" }, { "name": "Rashi Pal Singh", "rank": null, "unit": "PS Baradhpur, Bijnor", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.26, "jev_p_culpable": 0.82, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Rashi Pal Singh", "display": "Rashi Pal Singh" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "PS Baradhpur, Bijnor", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.89, "jev_p_culpable": 0.18, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, PS Baradhpur, Bijnor" } ], "officer_count": 16, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 25, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barhapur man, age 25" } ], "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/157781726/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebDownloadOriginalHCJudgmentDocument.do?translatedJudgmentID=6663" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Barhapur man, a sewadar at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi, was abducted from outside the gurudwara on 30 October 1992 by a U.P. police party led by SHO Dhirendra Singh Yadav and shot dead the next morning in Kanshiwala jungle, Bijnor, in what police claimed was an encounter with a Sikh militant during combing operations. False cases were registered at PS Barhapur and an AK-56 rifle planted beside the body. On a relative's writ petition the Supreme Court entrusted investigation to the CBI, which charge-sheeted the police party, and the Special CBI Court at Ghaziabad convicted 17 policemen and sentenced them to life imprisonment in March 2012. The High Court dismissed all appeals, holding the extra-judicial killing, abduction and fabrication of records proved beyond reasonable doubt and the self-defence encounter claim palpably false, cancelling Jaipal Singh's bail and taking him into custody.", "summary_verified": "A Barhapur man, a sewadar at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi, was abducted from outside the gurudwara on 30 October 1992 by a U.P. police party led by SHO Dhirendra Singh Yadav and shot dead the next morning in Kanshiwala jungle, Bijnor, in what police claimed was an encounter with a Sikh militant during combing operations. False cases were registered at PS Barhapur and an AK-56 rifle planted beside the body. On a relative's writ petition the Supreme Court entrusted investigation to the CBI, which charge-sheeted the police party, and the Special CBI Court at Ghaziabad convicted 17 policemen and sentenced them to life imprisonment in March 2012. The High Court dismissed all appeals, holding the extra-judicial killing, abduction and fabrication of records proved beyond reasonable doubt and the self-defence encounter claim palpably false, cancelling Jaipal Singh's bail and taking him into custody.", "court_quote": "The charges framed against them have been proved beyond all reasonable doubts. As the sentence awarded to the appellants is minimum, the same requires no interference. The appeals are, accordingly, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "67", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC dismissed appeals of 17 policemen, upholding life sentences for abduction and fake-encounter killing of a Barhapur man", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2020-10-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012", "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/157781726/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebDownloadOriginalHCJudgmentDocument.do?translatedJudgmentID=6663", "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": "SWFAKEEN-018", "officers_named_public": 16, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }