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 "verdict_note": "Full trial judgment read on Indian Kanoon: ASJ Baweja convicted three Patel Nagar policemen (304-II/323/342/218) for 1986 custodial death of a West Delhi man; 10 yr RI each.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "West Delhi",
 "court": "Additional Sessions Judge-FTC (Central), Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge-FTC (Central) Ms. Kaveri Baweja, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Delhi Police Sub-Inspector and others",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case No. 51/09 (RC 16(S)/88, PS Patel Nagar)",
 "conviction_date": "2012-08-09",
 "conviction_year": 2012,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1986-08-22",
 "incident_year": 1986,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "PS Patel Nagar, Delhi Police",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Patel Nagar, Delhi Police",
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   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "PS Patel Nagar, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Patel Nagar, Delhi Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "West Delhi man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "West Delhi man"
  }
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 34",
  "IPC 218",
  "IPC 109"
 ],
 "sentence": "10 years rigorous imprisonment each (trial court); co-accused [name withheld] died during trial (abated); convictions of [name withheld] and a doctor (u/s 218 IPC, false report) set aside by HC",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-of-police-officers-in-a-19-year-old-custodial-death-case/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
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 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155626869/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/delhi-hc-upholds-conviction-of-police-officers-in-a-19-year-old-custodial-death-case/"
 ],
 "summary": "ASJ-FTC (Central) Tis Hazari on 9 August 2012 convicted Patel Nagar Sub-Inspectors and Inder Rana for the custodial torture-murder of a West Delhi man: on the night of 22 August 1986 they picked up complainant [name withheld] and his uncle a West Delhi man, beat both with saria, danda and roller at the police station (after an alleged illegal demand of Rs 10,000), and a West Delhi man died the next morning, with the death first passed off as drug-related. Both were sentenced to 10 years RI under sections 323/342/304/34 IPC. In December 2015 Justice Indermeet Kaur of the Delhi High Court upheld the two SIs' conviction and 10-year sentences (relying on PW-9's un-cross-examined testimony), while acquitting Constable and the convicted doctor.",
 "court_quote": "This is a case of police torture and death of an innocent man while in police custody.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "noted": []
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 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "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": "t2-16-008=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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 "service": "police",
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}