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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0016",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "State of J&K v. Kupwara Police Station House Officer and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of J&K v. Kupwara Police Station House Officer and others",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Kupwara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kupwara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Sogam Police Station",
 "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of J&K v. Kupwara Police Station House Officer and others",
 "case_number": "CRAA No. 12 of 2011",
 "citation": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:242",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjeev Kumar",
  "Sanjay Parihar"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-08-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2003-05-12",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
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  "RPC 120-B"
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   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "Sogam Police Station, Kupwara",
   "role": "convicted",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_agy": null,
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   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station House Officer, Sogam Police Station, Kupwara"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Kupwara resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Kupwara resident"
  }
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 "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/pdf_upload/state-of-jk-v-gh-rasool-wani-anr-2075518.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/jk-and-ladakh-high-court-convicts-ex-sho-ghulam-rasool-for-aiding-2003-kupwara-fidayeen-attack-1518136",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3610190-ex-police-officer-sentenced-for-fidayeen-attack-justice-served-decades-later"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. On 12 May 2003, a Jaish-e-Mohammed fidayeen attacked police and CRPF personnel near the SBI branch in Kupwara town, killing two CRPF men and injuring six. Investigation showed that then-SHO [name withheld] [name withheld] had ferried the attacker from Sogam to Kupwara in an official Tata 407 police vehicle and planted him at the attack site. The Sessions Judge, Kupwara, acquitted Wani in January 2011. The High Court held the acquittal perverse, found the SHO proved as a conspirator in the murder, sentenced him to life imprisonment under Sections 302 read with 120-B RPC, and directed surrender before the trial court, while confirming the co-accused's acquittal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 12 May 2003, a Jaish-e-Mohammed fidayeen attacked police and CRPF personnel near the SBI branch in Kupwara town, killing two CRPF men and injuring six. Investigation showed that then-SHO [name withheld] [name withheld] had ferried the attacker from Sogam to Kupwara in an official Tata 407 police vehicle and planted him at the attack site. The Sessions Judge, Kupwara, acquitted Wani in January 2011. The High Court held the acquittal perverse, found the SHO proved as a conspirator in the murder, sentenced him to life imprisonment under Sections 302 read with 120-B RPC, and directed surrender before the trial court, while confirming the co-accused's acquittal.",
 "court_quote": "Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed under Section 302 RPC. He shall surrender to custody of the trial Court and the latter shall draw formal order of sentence and commit him to custody, so as to undergo the sentence of imprisonment of life.",
 "court_quote_para": "38",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "J&K HC reversed SHO's acquittal and convicted him of murder-conspiracy for aiding 2003 fidayeen attack; life term.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2025-08-30",
   "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 entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:242",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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   "url": "https://lawbeat.in/news-updates/jk-and-ladakh-high-court-convicts-ex-sho-ghulam-rasool-for-aiding-2003-kupwara-fidayeen-attack-1518136",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-023",
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