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 "display_title": "Mulmula Police Station House Officer and others vs State of Chhattisgarh (Mulmula Police personnel vs State of Chhattisgarh)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mulmula Police Station House Officer and others vs State of Chhattisgarh (Mulmula Police personnel vs State of Chhattisgarh)",
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 "court": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
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 "case_title": "Mulmula Police Station House Officer and others vs State of Chhattisgarh (Mulmula Police personnel vs State of Chhattisgarh)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 611/2019, 705/2019, 681/2019, 609/2019 with Acquittal Appeal No. 676/2019",
 "citation": "2025:CGHC:34873-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjay K. Agrawal",
  "Deepak Kumar Tiwari"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-07-22",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sainik",
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   "display": "Sainik, Mulmula Police Station, Janjgir-Champa"
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 "officer_count": 4,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Mulmula man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://highcourt.cg.gov.in/hcbspjudgement/judgements_web_hindi/CRA611_19(22.07.25).pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://24law.in/story/cruel-police-torture-led-to-custodial-death-chhattisgarh-high-court-calls-it-an-intolerable-betrayal"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Replace 'merciless beating' with attributed wording; replace tagline with defence (mob assault, expert doubt, para 9+) and its rejection. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Replace 'merciless beating' with attributed wording; replace tagline with defence (mob assault, expert doubt, para 9+) and its rejection.",
 "court_quote": "उन्हें दिया गया आजीवन कारावास का दंडादेश अपास्त किया जाता है और इस परिवर्तित दोषसिद्धि के लिए उन्हें दस वर्ष के कठोर कारावास से दंडादिष्ट किया जाता है।",
 "court_quote_para": "35",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "DB Hindi judgment PDF verified; 302/34 altered to 304-II/34, 10 years RI each for 4 policemen.",
 "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": "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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  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Chhattisgarh High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2025:CGHC:34873-DB",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-07-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "2025:CGHC:34873-DB",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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",
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    "summary"
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  {
   "url": "https://24law.in/story/cruel-police-torture-led-to-custodial-death-chhattisgarh-high-court-calls-it-an-intolerable-betrayal",
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  "basis": null
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