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 "verdict_note": "Mohali CBI court sentenced 5 retired Punjab officers to life for 1993 Tarn Taran fake encounters of 7 youths.",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Tarn Taran",
 "court": "Special CBI Court, Mohali",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Mohali (Judge Baljinder Singh Sra)",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Punjab Police Deputy Superintendent of Police at time of offence (retired as Senior Superintendent of Police) and others",
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 "conviction_date": "2025-08-04",
 "conviction_year": 2025,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1993-07-12",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
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 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
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  {
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   "unit": "Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector at time of offence (retired as Deputy Superintendent of Police), Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
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   "name": null
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  {
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Inspector, Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
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  {
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
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   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 120B"
 ],
 "sentence": "Rigorous life imprisonment for all five, plus Rs 3.50 lakh fine each; sentenced 4 August 2025",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/punjab/news/punjab-police-officers-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-court-delivers-verdict-in-1993-fake-encounter-case-national-135600948.html",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NzE3Mw==",
  "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NzE3OA==",
  "https://inshorts.com/en/news/ex-ssp--dsp-get-life-term-in-fake-encounter-case-in-punjab-1754316596736",
  "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/local/punjab/news/punjab-police-officers-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-court-delivers-verdict-in-1993-fake-encounter-case-national-135600948.html",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3529120-justice-served-life-imprisonment-for-1993-fake-encounter-case-convicts",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3529120-justice-served-life-imprisonment-for-1993-fake-encounter-case-convicts?amp",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3530276-32-years-on-families-of-1993-tarn-taran-fake-encounter-victims-see-justice-as-5-ex-cops-jailed?amp",
  "https://www.indianewsstream.com/5-retired-punjab-policemen-get-life-term-for-1993-fake-encounter-killings/"
 ],
 "summary": "The court of CBI Special Judge [name withheld], Mohali, on 1 August 2025 found five retired Punjab Police officers guilty of criminal conspiracy, murder and destruction of evidence for staging two fake encounters in Tarn Taran in July 1993 in which seven youths (three of them Special Police Officers) were abducted, tortured and killed. The CBI, which took over the case on a 1996 Supreme Court order, proved through post-mortem and forensic evidence that the encounters were fabricated and bodies cremated as unclaimed. On 4 August 2025 the court sentenced all five to rigorous life imprisonment with Rs 3.5 lakh fine each, calling their conduct morally bankrupt and profoundly inhumane.",
 "court_quote": "highlighting their conduct as 'morally bankrupt and profoundly inhumane'",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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   "t2-13-007": "holds",
   "t2-14-008": "holds",
   "t2-17-016": "holds",
   "t2-18-012": "wrong_facts"
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  "noted": [
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 },
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 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-07-001=holds, t2-13-007=holds, t2-14-008=holds, t2-17-016=holds, t2-18-012=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Punjab Police Deputy Superintendent of Police at time of offence (retired as Senior Superintendent of Police)",
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