{
 "record_id": "CW-2023-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0477",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Nurul Islam v. State of Meghalaya",
 "display_title_redacted": "Nurul Islam v. State of Meghalaya",
 "state": "Meghalaya",
 "district": "South West Garo Hills",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ampati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ampati PS",
 "court": "Meghalaya High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Meghalaya High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Nurul Islam v. State of Meghalaya",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 12 of 2022",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sanjib Banerjee",
  "W. Diengdoh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-03-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2013-03-13",
 "incident_year": 2013,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 354",
  "IPC 376(2)(i)",
  "IPC 506",
  "POCSO s.6",
  "POCSO s.10"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Nurul Islam",
   "rank": "Officer-in-Charge",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Ampati PS",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.1,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Nurul Islam",
   "display": "Nurul Islam (Officer-in-Charge)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": 13,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ampati girl, age 13"
  },
  {
   "age": 17,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ampati girl, age 17"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134012635/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/meghalaya-high-court-cop-rape-minors-loose-character-survivors-porstitution-conviction-upheld-224657"
 ],
 "summary": "The Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal of OC Ampati PS Nurul Islam, upholding his POCSO court conviction for detaining two minor sisters aged 13 and 17 at the station on 13 March 2013 and molesting them in his chamber, and raping the elder sister at her home on 31 March 2013. The Court rejected the defence that the survivors' alleged prostitution discredited them and that their age was unproved, holding there could be no reasonable doubt as to culpability. It found the March 2022 conviction and sentence called for no interference. The appeal was dismissed without touching the trial court's sentence.",
 "summary_verified": "The Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal of OC Ampati PS Nurul Islam, upholding his POCSO court conviction for detaining two minor sisters aged 13 and 17 at the station on 13 March 2013 and molesting them in his chamber, and raping the elder sister at her home on 31 March 2013. The Court rejected the defence that the survivors' alleged prostitution discredited them and that their age was unproved, holding there could be no reasonable doubt as to culpability. It found the March 2022 conviction and sentence called for no interference. The appeal was dismissed without touching the trial court's sentence.",
 "court_quote": "This is a ghastly case of a policeman, an officer-in-charge of a police station no less, molesting and raping girl children with gay abandon.",
 "court_quote_para": "1",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; OC Ampati's POCSO conviction upheld without interference.",
 "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 torture",
   "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 Meghalaya High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Meghalaya High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Crl.A. No. 12 of 2022",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2023-03-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Meghalaya High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Crl.A. No. 12 of 2022",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134012635/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/meghalaya-high-court-cop-rape-minors-loose-character-survivors-porstitution-conviction-upheld-224657",
   "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-42"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-006",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}