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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:01:01Z",
 "verdict_note": "HR Spl Judge convicted Sikkim SI of 1988 abduction-murder; life; upheld by HC and SC (2002) 7 SCC 157.",
 "state": "Sikkim",
 "district": "Gyalshing",
 "court": "Sikkim High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Human Rights, South and West District, Sikkim",
 "case_title": "State v. Sikkim Police Sub-Inspector, Special Branch",
 "case_number": "Criminal (Human Rights) Case No.6/1996",
 "conviction_date": "1999-12-21",
 "conviction_year": 1999,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1988-02-12",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector, Special Branch",
   "unit": "Sikkim Police (co-accused: DySP/Sub-Divisional Police Officer Rolland Christopher Chhetri, West Sikkim — died 09/10/1995, proceedings abated)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Special Branch, Sikkim Police (co-accused: DySP/Sub-Divisional Police Officer Rolland Christopher Chhetri, West Sikkim — died 09/10/1995, proceedings abated)",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Gyalshing man"
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 364 r/w IPC 34",
  "IPC 302 r/w IPC 34",
  "IPC 201 r/w IPC 34"
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 "sentence": "5 yrs RI + Rs 5,000 fine (6 mo RI default) u/s 364; imprisonment for life + Rs 10,000 fine (1 yr default) u/s 302; 3 yrs RI + Rs 5,000 fine (6 mo RI default) u/s 201 — concurrent, with set-off; fine to deceased's children",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/194754/",
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 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1001226/",
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  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/194754/"
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 "summary": "The Special Judge, Human Rights, South and West District, Sikkim, on 21 December 1999 convicted SI (Special Branch) [name withheld] for the abduction and murder of a Gyalshing man of Timberbong Busty under Sections 364/302/201 r/w 34 IPC. The chargesheet case was that on 12 February 1988 the two police officers abducted Sharma near Naya Bazar, murdered him at Zoom Busty, and disposed of the body across the river under Bijanbari PS (Darjeeling, WB). The Sikkim High Court (10/04/2001) and the Supreme Court ([name withheld] v. [name withheld] of Sikkim, (2002) 7 SCC 157, decided 19/08/2002) both dismissed his appeals, upholding the life sentence.",
 "court_quote": "The appellant on being found guilty by the Special Judge, Human Rights, South & West Districts, Sikkim, was convicted and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.10,000/-; in default to undergo further RI for a period of one year.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "noted": []
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 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
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 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-12-008=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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 "case_title_or_number": "Criminal (Human Rights) Case No. 6 of 1996 — State vs Rolland Christopher Chhetri (A-1, abated) & [name withheld] (A-2)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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