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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0148",
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  "CWC-1461"
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 "display_title": "Savarkundla Police Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Gujarat",
 "display_title_redacted": "Savarkundla Police Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Gujarat",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Amreli",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Savarkundla",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Savarkundla Town Police Station",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Savarkundla Police Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Gujarat",
 "case_number": "R/Criminal Appeal No. 1138 of 2000",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Gita Gopi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-08-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "1989-10-27",
 "incident_year": 1989,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Savarkundla Town Police Station, Amreli",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
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   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Savarkundla Town Police Station, Amreli"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Savarkundla man, age 22"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 7,
 "compensation_inr": 25000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/191741402/",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-custodial-death-1989-case-22-year-old-cop-conviction-300986",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/cra11382000gjhc24031306200041314082025-615481.pdf"
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 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal of deceased PSI of Savarkundla Town police station, continued by his legal heirs, upholding his conviction for the custodial death on 27.10.1989 of 22-year-old a Savarkundla man @ Bhoplo Waghri, picked up for interrogation in a theft complaint and beaten with sticks, kicks and fist blows to extort a confession, dying the same night with 23 external and 5 internal injuries. The Court held the custodial death proved by police records including the appellant's own Accident Death Report, rejected the parity plea based on the six acquitted policemen, and upheld 7 years RI under Section 304-II and 3 years RI under Section 330 with Rs 25,000 compensation to the victim's heirs realizable as arrears of land revenue. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal of deceased PSI of Savarkundla Town police station, continued by his legal heirs, upholding his conviction for the custodial death on 27.10.1989 of 22-year-old a Savarkundla man @ Bhoplo Waghri, picked up for interrogation in a theft complaint and beaten with sticks, kicks and fist blows to extort a confession, dying the same night with 23 external and 5 internal injuries. The Court held the custodial death proved by police records including the appellant's own Accident Death Report, rejected the parity plea based on the six acquitted policemen, and upheld 7 years RI under Section 304-II and 3 years RI under Section 330 with Rs 25,000 compensation to the victim's heirs realizable as arrears of land revenue.",
 "court_quote": "It was not a crime buried with the grave, but was in police custody, where every police becomes answerable to the public for his custodial torture.",
 "court_quote_para": "103",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal (via deceased PSI's heirs) and upheld 7y RI for 1989 custodial death; Rs 25,000 to victim heirs.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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   "category": "Custodial death",
   "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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   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "R/Criminal Appeal No. 1138 of 2000",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-08-14",
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   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "R/Criminal Appeal No. 1138 of 2000",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
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   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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