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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0033",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0775",
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 "display_title": "Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai City",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mumbai (Sion)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sion Police Station (C.R. No. 155/2014)",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sarang V. Kotwal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-11-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "2014-05-07",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 377",
  "IPC 506 Part I",
  "POCSO Act s.4"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone",
   "display": "Vilas Shantaram Kaldhone (Constable)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 17,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Mumbai boy, age 17"
  }
 ],
 "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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/bombay-hc-2-447515.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-pocso-case-conviction-former-cop-dna-evidence-medical-evidence-215776",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/reduction-of-sentence-constable-sexual-assault-minor-boy-good-behaviour-in-jail-1451270"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. On 7 May 2014 a 17-year-old boy who had left home after a quarrel accepted a motorcycle lift near Shanmukhananda Hall, Sion, from Vilas Kaldhone, who said he was police personnel; Kaldhone took him to a building terrace and sexually assaulted him at knifepoint. PW-10 deposed that Kaldhone was a constable who had been suspended from service much before the incident. The trial court convicted him under Section 377 IPC, Section 506 Part I IPC and Section 4 POCSO Act with 10-year concurrent terms on 12 April 2018. The court held the DNA match on the victim's underwear clinching, rejected the defence claim of semen collection at the police station, and maintained the conviction while reducing the substantive sentences to the 8-plus years already undergone, above the then 7-year POCSO minimum, citing good jail conduct. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 7 May 2014 a 17-year-old boy who had left home after a quarrel accepted a motorcycle lift near Shanmukhananda Hall, Sion, from Vilas Kaldhone, who said he was police personnel; Kaldhone took him to a building terrace and sexually assaulted him at knifepoint. PW-10 deposed that Kaldhone was a constable who had been suspended from service much before the incident. The trial court convicted him under Section 377 IPC, Section 506 Part I IPC and Section 4 POCSO Act with 10-year concurrent terms on 12 April 2018. The court held the DNA match on the victim's underwear clinching, rejected the defence claim of semen collection at the police station, and maintained the conviction while reducing the substantive sentences to the 8-plus years already undergone, above the then 7-year POCSO minimum, citing good jail conduct.",
 "court_quote": "All these factors considered together or even separately, point unerringly to the guilt of the appellant. The prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Suspended constable's POCSO/s.377 conviction upheld on DNA and medical evidence; sentence cut to time undergone.",
 "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 Bombay High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Bombay High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1301 of 2018",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2022-11-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay 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 No. 1301 of 2018",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/bombay-hc-2-447515.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-pocso-case-conviction-former-cop-dna-evidence-medical-evidence-215776",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/reduction-of-sentence-constable-sexual-assault-minor-boy-good-behaviour-in-jail-1451270",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-12-003",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}