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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T17:13:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "DUPLICATE of t2-16-004 (same [name withheld] trial); facts verified; 13th police convict name unconfirmed.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai Suburban",
 "court": "Sessions Court, Mumbai (Sessions Judge V.D. Jadhwar)",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Mumbai (Sessions Judge V.D. Jadhwar)",
 "case_title": "State v. Mumbai Police Inspector and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2013-07-05",
 "conviction_year": 2013,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2006-11-11",
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 "category": "brutality",
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 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
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  {
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   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
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   "display": "rank not stated in report, Mumbai Police",
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   "display": "rank not stated in report, Mumbai Police",
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  {
   "rank": "rank not stated in report",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "rank not stated in report, Mumbai Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "rank not stated in report",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "rank not stated in report, Mumbai Police",
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   "name": null
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  {
   "rank": "rank not stated in report",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "rank not stated in report, Mumbai Police",
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  },
  {
   "rank": "rank not stated in report",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
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   "display": "rank not stated in report, Mumbai Police",
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   "name": null
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  {
   "rank": "rank not stated in report",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai Suburban man"
  }
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "Abetment/conspiracy charges (remaining convicts; exact sections not stated in accessed reports)"
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 "sentence": "Life imprisonment to all 21 convicts (awarded 12 July 2013), including 13 policemen; prime accused Sr Inspector acquitted by trial court",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-mumbai-police-encounter-specialist-pradeep-sharma-acquittal-fake-encounter-case-lakhan-bhaiya-252769",
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/lakhan-bhaiya-judgement-march-19-529456.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-mumbai-police-encounter-specialist-pradeep-sharma-acquittal-fake-encounter-case-lakhan-bhaiya-252769",
  "https://english.tupaki.com/entertainment/article/life-term-for-staged-shootout-to-21-including-13-policemen/16619",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/bombay-high-court-overturns-acquittal-former-cop-pradeep-sharma-fake-encounter-case",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/fake-encounter-case-supreme-court-refuses-to-suspend-conviction-of-ex-mumbai-cop-pradeep-sharma-for-contesting-assembly-elections-265783"
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 "summary": "The Mumbai Sessions Court on 5 July 2013 delivered the first-ever conviction of policemen in a fake encounter, holding 21 accused including 13 Mumbai policemen guilty for abducting Vashi resident [name withheld] and killing him in a staged shooting at Versova on 11 November 2006; three officers were convicted of murder and 18 accused of abetting, all sentenced to life on 12 July 2013. On 19 March 2024 the Bombay High Court (Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Gauri Godse) upheld life terms for 12 policemen and one civilian, acquitted six civilians, and reversed the trial acquittal of encounter specialist [name withheld], sentencing him to life, calling the trial acquittal perverse. (A 13th convicted policeman died post-conviction and proceedings abated; His SLP was admitted by the Supreme Court with interim no-surrender relief.)",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-16+t2-17",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-16-004": "holds",
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  "noted": []
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "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": "t2-16-004=holds, t2-17-005=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Official source added: Bombay High Court judgment of 19.03.2024 (2024:BHC-AS:13216-DB, Criminal Appeal No. 707 of 2019 and connected appeals; copy hosted by LiveLaw), which sets out the 2013 trial-court convictions and decides the appeals."
  }
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}