{
 "case_id": "t2-09-006",
 "alias_case_ids": [
  "t2-13-013"
 ],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-09-006": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "muse": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  },
  "t2-13-013": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "muse": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2verify-chunk-02",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-17T22:56:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI special court Patna (ADJ Avinash Kumar) convicted two Bihar Police officers on 8 Oct 2024 for 1998 a Purnia man fake encounter; life term + 5 yr.",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Purnia",
 "court": "Special CBI Court, Patna",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court (CBI), Patna (Additional District & Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar)",
 "case_title": "State (CBI) v. Bihar Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (then Station In-charge, Barhara) and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2024-10-08",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1998-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (then Station In-charge, Barhara)",
   "unit": "Barhara Police Station, Purnia, Bihar Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (then Station In-charge, Barhara), Barhara Police Station, Purnia, Bihar Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Inspector (former Inspector, Bihariganj Police Station)",
   "unit": "Bihariganj Police Station, Purnia, Bihar Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector (former Inspector, Bihariganj Police Station), Bihariganj Police Station, Purnia, Bihar Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Purnia man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 193",
  "IPC 182"
 ],
 "sentence": "[name withheld] — life imprisonment (fined Rs 3,01,000 in the case; 1 year additional imprisonment in default); [name withheld] — 5 years imprisonment + Rs 50,000 fine",
 "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://thelucknowtribune.org/purnia-fake-encounter-accused-to-cool-heels-in-jail/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NjU1OA=="
 ],
 "summary": "The CBI special court in Patna (Additional District & Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar) on 8 October 2024 convicted then-Barhara station in-charge (since promoted to DSP) and former Bihariganj inspector for the 1998 fake encounter killing of farmer [name withheld] of Joteli village, Purnia, holding after 26 years and ~45 witnesses that police had dragged him from his home and shot him dead while falsely claiming an encounter. [name withheld] was sentenced to life imprisonment under IPC Sections 302, 201, 193 and 182; Jha to 5 years. The victim's family sought compensation from the court. (Possible overlap with T2-14 CBI-court sweep — flag for dedupe.)",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-09+t2-13",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-09-006": "holds",
   "t2-13-013": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "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": "t2-09-006=holds, t2-13-013=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "Purnia Man fake encounter case (Barhara/Bihariganj, Purnia, 1998; CBI investigation) — State (CBI) vs [name withheld] and [name withheld]",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}