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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0011",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0648",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Police Constable v. State (NCT of Delhi)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Constable v. State (NCT of Delhi)",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mayur Vihar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mayur Vihar Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Police Constable v. State (NCT of Delhi)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 597 of 2012",
 "citation": "2024 INSC 462",
 "judges": [
  "Sudhanshu Dhulia",
  "Rajesh Bindal"
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 "judgment_date": "2024-07-03",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2002-06-30",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
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  "IPC 307"
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 "officers": [
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Delhi Police (guard, Mayur Vihar Police Station)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.95,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Delhi Police (guard, Mayur Vihar Police Station)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mayur Vihar man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Mayur Vihar woman"
  }
 ],
 "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://lawbeat.in/top-stories/man-killed-inside-police-station-supreme-court-upholds-conviction-constable",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/surender-singh-v-state-nct-of-delhi-2024-insc-462-police-guard-murder-conviction-uphel-1542714",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On 30 June 2002, Delhi Police constable, posted as guard at Mayur Vihar Police Station, sprayed carbine fire inside the station while on duty, killing his relative a Mayur Vihar man over a personal motive and injuring a lady head constable. Convicted under Sections 302 and 307 IPC, he lost his appeal before the Delhi High Court in 2011. The Supreme Court termed it a brazen murder, rejected pleas of self-defence and grave-and-sudden provocation, dismissed the appeal and upheld the life sentence.",
 "summary_verified": "On 30 June 2002, Delhi Police constable, posted as guard at Mayur Vihar Police Station, sprayed carbine fire inside the station while on duty, killing his relative a Mayur Vihar man over a personal motive and injuring a lady head constable. Convicted under Sections 302 and 307 IPC, he lost his appeal before the Delhi High Court in 2011. The Supreme Court termed it a brazen murder, rejected pleas of self-defence and grave-and-sudden provocation, dismissed the appeal and upheld the life sentence.",
 "court_quote": "By no stretch of logic is it a case of any lesser magnitude, and definitely not culpable homicide not amounting to murder.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC murder-conviction ruling verified via 3+ independent reports; life sentence of on-duty constable upheld.",
 "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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   "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 Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2024 INSC 462",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-07-03",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "2024 INSC 462",
   "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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  {
   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/surender-singh-v-state-nct-of-delhi-2024-insc-462-police-guard-murder-conviction-uphel-1542714",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-012",
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 "service": "police",
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}