{
 "case_id": "t2-13-005",
 "alias_case_ids": [
  "t2-17-008"
 ],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag",
   "union": "accept"
  },
  "t2-17-008": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-045 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:46:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Mumbai Special CBI Court convicted 2 Ghatkopar policemen (7 years RI); acquitted of murder; multi-outlet corroboration.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai",
 "court": "Special CBI Court, Mumbai",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Mumbai",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Mumbai Police Police Sub-Inspector (then PSI) and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2025-10-07",
 "conviction_year": 2025,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2009-09-11",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector (then PSI)",
   "unit": "Ghatkopar Police Station, Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector (then PSI), Ghatkopar Police Station, Mumbai Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable (then HC)",
   "unit": "Ghatkopar Police Station, Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable (then HC), Ghatkopar Police Station, Mumbai Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 22,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai man, age 22"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 120B"
 ],
 "sentence": "Imprisonment 7 years + fine Rs 1,00,000 each (per CBI PR; some press reports state Rs 62,000 each with Rs 1 lakh to the victim's mother)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 7,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3655410-ex-policemen-jailed-for-custodial-death-acquitted-of-murder-charge",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NzMxNQ==",
  "https://lawbeat.in/amp/news-updates/ghatkopar-custodial-death-case-bombay-high-court-directs-framing-murder-charges-against-police-officers",
  "https://rbnewsmedia.com/mumbai-cbi-court-sentenced-two-police-officers-to-seven-years-imprisonment-and-fine-in-the-ghatkopar-custodial-death-case/",
  "https://www.htsyndication.com/united-news-of-india/article/mumbai-cbi-court-convicts-2-former-police-officers-in-custodial-death-case,-awards-7-year-rigorous-imprisonment/93876054",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/bombay-high-court-custodial-torture-murder-police-custody-sanction-under-section-197-of-crpc-224935"
 ],
 "summary": "The CBI Court, Mumbai convicted then-PSI [name withheld] and then-Head Constable of Ghatkopar police station for the September 2009 custodial death of a Mumbai man, sentencing each to 7 years' imprisonment with fine. The CBI registered the case in November 2009 on Bombay High Court and Supreme Court orders and chargesheeted three policemen in December 2010 (the third, Police Naik, died during trial). Press reports [name withheld] the court acquitted both of murder but convicted them of causing hurt to extract confession, wrongful confinement and conspiracy.",
 "court_quote": "death was natural and not homicidal",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-13+t2-17",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-13-005": "holds",
   "t2-17-008": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
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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": "t2-13-005=holds, t2-17-008=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Mumbai Police Police Sub-Inspector (then PSI)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}