{
 "record_id": "CW-2026-0087",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1368",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "The State vs Nicobar Police Police Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State vs Nicobar Police Police Constable",
 "state": "Andaman and Nicobar Islands",
 "district": "Port Blair",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Aberdeen",
 "court": "High Court at Calcutta, Circuit Bench at Port Blair",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court at Calcutta, Circuit Bench at Port Blair",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The State vs Nicobar Police Police Constable",
 "case_number": "CRA (DB) 6 of 2024 with CRA (DB) 4 of 2024",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Arijit Banerjee",
  "Apurba Sinha Ray"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-08-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "376 IPC",
  "312 IPC"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "PS Aberdeen, Andaman and Nicobar Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, PS Aberdeen, Andaman and Nicobar Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Port Blair woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": true,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/18626796/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32245148/"
 ],
 "summary": "The High Court convicted a serving police constable by its judgment dated 23.04.2026, reversing the Sessions Judge's acquittal dated 24.04.2024 in Sessions Case No. 32 of 2015. The High Court held that intimacy was secured on a false promise of marriage and that the complainant lady constable was coerced into abortions. The High Court imposed the minimum seven-year rigorous imprisonment plus fine for the sexual offence and a concurrent one-year term plus fine for the second offence. The High Court directed that ninety percent of any fine realized be disbursed to the victim as compensation.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court convicted a serving police constable by its judgment dated 23.04.2026, reversing the Sessions Judge's acquittal dated 24.04.2024 in Sessions Case No. 32 of 2015. The High Court held that intimacy was secured on a false promise of marriage and that the complainant lady constable was coerced into abortions. The High Court imposed the minimum seven-year rigorous imprisonment plus fine for the sexual offence and a concurrent one-year term plus fine for the second offence. The High Court directed that ninety percent of any fine realized be disbursed to the victim as compensation.",
 "court_quote": "Ninety percent (90%) of the fine amount, if realized, shall be disbursed to the victim as compensation.",
 "court_quote_para": "sentence order",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Sections field lists 417 IPC, but the High Court's conviction and sentencing order (primary source doc/18626796) are under Sections 376 and 312 IPC only; 417 IPC was part of the trial charge but not the conviction, and the sentence described covers only two offences.",
 "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": "2026-08-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court at Calcutta, Circuit Bench at Port Blair",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court at Calcutta, Circuit Bench at Port Blair recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "conviction by hc",
   "source": "CRA (DB) 6 of 2024 with CRA (DB) 4 of 2024",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/18626796/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32245148/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "swarm-verify-cop-an-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-an-hc-1",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}