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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1269",
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 "display_title": "CRPF Constable v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Bijapur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Basaguda",
 "police_station_or_unit": "CRPF 168th Battalion camp, Basaguda",
 "court": "Chhattisgarh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "CRPF Constable v. State of Chhattisgarh",
 "case_number": "CRA No. 1950 of 2024",
 "citation": "2025:CGHC:25748-DB; 2025 LiveLaw (Chh) 60",
 "judges": [
  "Ramesh Sinha",
  "Bibhu Datta Guru"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-06-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2017-12-09",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307",
  "Arms Act 25(1B)(a)",
  "Arms Act 27(1)"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "CRPF 168th Battalion, G Company, Basaguda, Bijapur",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "display": "Constable, CRPF 168th Battalion, G Company, Basaguda, Bijapur"
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  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Basaguda resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Basaguda resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Basaguda resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Basaguda resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Basaguda resident"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 5,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display--longworkinghours-606479.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/chattisgarh-high-court/chhattisgarh-high-court-upholds-conviction-crpf-constable-murder-of-four-personnel-strenuous-conditions-naxal-area-295755",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/06/27/chhattisgarh-hc-upholds-conviction-crpf-personnel-killed-colleagues/",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/chhattisgarh-high-court/crpf-constable-murder-four-colleagues-sant-kumar-v-state-of-chhattisgarh-2025cghc25748-db-1582498"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Drop/replace tagline with defence plea (conversion to s.304, stress/leave) and its rejection (para 32). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Drop/replace tagline with defence plea (conversion to s.304, stress/leave) and its rejection (para 32).",
 "court_quote": "From the analysis of the deposition made by the prosecution witnesses, we are of the considered opinion that the prosecution has been successful in proving its case beyond reasonable doubt and the learned trial Court has not committed any legal or factual error in arriving at the finding with regard to the guilt of the appellant/convict.",
 "court_quote_para": "33",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Conviction of CRPF constable for murder of four colleagues upheld; victims were fellow personnel, not civilians.",
 "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.",
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   "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:25748-DB; 2025 LiveLaw (Chh) 60",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-06-19",
   "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:25748-DB; 2025 LiveLaw (Chh) 60",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "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)",
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