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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0024",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0643",
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 "display_title": "J&K Police Constable v. State of Jammu and Kashmir",
 "display_title_redacted": "J&K Police Constable v. State of Jammu and Kashmir",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Udhampur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh",
 "bench": "Jammu",
 "case_title": "J&K Police Constable v. State of Jammu and Kashmir",
 "case_number": "CRA No. 17 of 2010",
 "citation": "2025 LiveLaw (JKL) 14",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjeev Kumar",
  "Puneet Gupta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-12-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2001-09-29",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "POTA 2002 s.3(4)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "J&K Police, District Udhampur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, J&K Police, District Udhampur"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113743568/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/doc-20250129-wa0005-584258.pdf",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-confession-must-be-of-sterling-value-corroborated-court-upholds-conviction-under-pota-282527"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. Constable of District Udhampur police absented without authorisation from 29 September to 11 November 2001; on rejoining, police seized militants' photographs and film negatives from him, and investigation established he was harbouring Mahore-area militants to spread militancy, culminating in a confessional statement before the SSP Poonch under s.32 POTA. The POTA Designated Court (Jammu) convicted him under s.3(4) POTA in July 2010 with 3 years imprisonment plus Rs.1,000 fine. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Puneet Gupta dismissed his appeal, holding a s.32 POTA confession must be of sterling value and corroborated as a matter of prudence, upheld the conviction and sentence, cancelled his bail bonds, and ordered surrender within ten days.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable of District Udhampur police absented without authorisation from 29 September to 11 November 2001; on rejoining, police seized militants' photographs and film negatives from him, and investigation established he was harbouring Mahore-area militants to spread militancy, culminating in a confessional statement before the SSP Poonch under s.32 POTA. The POTA Designated Court (Jammu) convicted him under s.3(4) POTA in July 2010 with 3 years imprisonment plus Rs.1,000 fine. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Puneet Gupta dismissed his appeal, holding a s.32 POTA confession must be of sterling value and corroborated as a matter of prudence, upheld the conviction and sentence, cancelled his bail bonds, and ordered surrender within ten days.",
 "court_quote": "For the foregoing reasons, we dismiss the appeal and uphold the judgment of conviction and the order of sentence passed by the trial Court.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "J&K HC dismissed POTA appeal, upholding constable's 3-year conviction for harbouring militants; text verified.",
 "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 Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2025 LiveLaw (JKL) 14",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-12-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "2025 LiveLaw (JKL) 14",
   "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113743568/",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/doc-20250129-wa0005-584258.pdf",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-confession-must-be-of-sterling-value-corroborated-court-upholds-conviction-under-pota-282527",
   "link_checked": null
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 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}