{
 "case_id": "t2-13-024",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-13-024": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-041 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:50:16Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI PR confirms life for SHO for 1996 Ropar fake encounter; 2 ASIs on probation; 3 acquitted.",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Rupnagar",
 "court": "Special Judge-I, CBI Cases, Mohali",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge-I, CBI Cases, Mohali",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Punjab Police SHO (then SHO) and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2019-02-27",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1996-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "SHO (then SHO)",
   "unit": "PS Sadar, Ropar, Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "SHO (then SHO), PS Sadar, Ropar, Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "ASI (then ASI)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "ASI (then ASI), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "ASI (then ASI)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "ASI (then ASI), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rupnagar man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rupnagar man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307",
  "Arms Act 25/54/59"
 ],
 "sentence": "[name withheld]: life imprisonment + fine Rs 5,00,000 (Rs 2,00,000 each to the two victim families); two ASIs: probation one year + Rs 20,000 litigation expenses each",
 "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://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/MjI0OQ==",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge-I, CBI Mohali sentenced SHO to life for the staged encounter killing of [name withheld] and a Rupnagar man, falsely shown as arrested and then killed near village Bhadal with a cover story of cross-firing during an arms recovery. Two ASIs were released on a year's probation. The CBI registered the case in 1997 on Punjab and Haryana High Court orders on the wife's petition. Incident circa 1996 per writ-petition year.",
 "court_quote": "The Special Judge-I, CBI Cases, Mohali (Punjab) has today sentenced Sh. [name withheld], then SHO, Police Station Sadar, Ropar (Punjab) to undergo life imprisonment with fine of Rs. 5 lakh (out of which Rs. 2 lakh each to be paid to victim family as compensation)",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-13",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-13-024": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "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": "t2-13-024=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Punjab Police SHO (then SHO) and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}