{
 "case_id": "t2-07-005",
 "alias_case_ids": [
  "t2-13-014",
  "t2-17-019"
 ],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-07-005": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "muse": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  },
  "t2-13-014": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  },
  "t2-17-019": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "muse": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2verify-chunk-02",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-17T22:54:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Same 7 June 2024 Mohali CBI-court judgment as t2-17-019 (duplicate merged_id); PTI via Devdiscourse confirms life term + 7 yr for a Tarn Taran resident fake encounter.",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Tarn Taran",
 "court": "Special CBI Court, Mohali",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Mohali",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Punjab Police Station House Officer (former) and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2024-06-07",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1993-07-22",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Station House Officer (former)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station House Officer (former), Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tarn Taran city at time of offence (retired as Deputy Inspector General)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tarn Taran city at time of offence (retired as Deputy Inspector General), Punjab Police, Tarn Taran",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Tarn Taran resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC s.302 ([name withheld])",
  "IPC s.364 (both)",
  "IPC s.201 ([name withheld])",
  "IPC s.218 ([name withheld])"
 ],
 "sentence": "[name withheld]: life imprisonment; [name withheld]: seven years imprisonment for kidnapping",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/2975602-former-police-officers-sentenced-for-1993-fake-encounter-killing-in-punjab",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NjM1Mw==",
  "https://face2news.com/news/92044-cbi-court-sentence-two-accused-among-than-dsp-tarn-taran-then-sho-to-life-imprisonment-fine-of-rs-375-lakh-/",
  "https://sikhsiyasatnews.net/former-dig-dsp-get-jail-terms-in-31-years/",
  "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/originals/news/punjab-fake-encounters-father-31-years-fight-for-justice-134424243.html",
  "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/india-news-tarn-taran-fake-encounter-former-dsp-sho-convicted-for-staged-killing-of-fruit-seller-31-years-ago-6018827.html",
  "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/india-news-tarn-taran-fake-encounter-former-sho-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-staged-killing-31-years-ago-6021745.html"
 ],
 "summary": "A Special CBI court in Mohali sentenced former SHO to life imprisonment and former DSP (retired DIG) [name withheld] to seven years jail for the staged-encounter killing of fruit-seller a Tarn Taran resident, as reported by PTI on 7 June 2024. The CBI, which took over the case in 1995 on Supreme Court orders, proved through 32 witnesses that Kumar was abducted from his home on 22 June 1993, held in illegal detention for a month, killed on 22 July 1993 and cremated by police without informing his family. [name withheld]'s seven-year term was specifically for kidnapping under IPC section 364. Note: one secondary report dates the verdict Friday 14 June 2024; PTI's 7 June 2024 date is used here.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-07+t2-13+t2-17",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-07-005": "holds",
   "t2-13-014": "holds",
   "t2-17-019": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [
   "sections",
   "sentence"
  ],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-07-005=holds, t2-13-014=holds, t2-17-019=holds",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "sections",
    "sentence"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Punjab Police Station House Officer (former) and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}