{
 "case_id": "t2w2-01-004",
 "alias_case_ids": [
  "t2w2-13-001"
 ],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-01-004": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  },
  "t2w2-13-001": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-072 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:44:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI PR confirms Special CBI Court Ghaziabad convicted 4 Bhojpur policemen of 1996 fake encounter murder; incident date corrected to 8 Nov 1996.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Ghaziabad",
 "court": "Special Judge, CBI Cases, Ghaziabad",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Ghaziabad",
 "case_title": "CBI v. UP Police Station Officer (then SO) and others",
 "case_number": "Crime Nos. 142-146 of 1996, PS Bhojpur (CBI case registered 10.04.1997)",
 "conviction_date": "2017-02-20",
 "conviction_year": 2017,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1996-11-08",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Station Officer (then SO)",
   "unit": "PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station Officer (then SO), PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (then SI)",
   "unit": "PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (then SI), PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable (then Constable)",
   "unit": "PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (then Constable), PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable (then Constable)",
   "unit": "PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (then Constable), PS Bhojpur, Ghaziabad, UP Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ghaziabad man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ghaziabad man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ghaziabad man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ghaziabad man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 193",
  "IPC 201"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment each u/s 302 (fines: SO Rs 2,00,000; SI 1,00,000; constables 50,000 each) + 2 years RI u/s 193 (Rs 10,000 fine each) + 4 years RI u/s 201 (Rs 20,000 fine each), concurrent; 50% of total fine to victims' families; 5th accused constable died during trial; 99 prosecution witnesses examined",
 "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/MjY3Mg==",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.legalindia.com/news/extra-judicial-killings-life-term-4-policemen",
  "https://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/four-up-cops-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-in-fake-encounter-that-killed-four-youths/&=1/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Special Judge for CBI Cases Ghaziabad on 20 February 2017 convicted four Bhojpur police personnel of murdering four unarmed labourers — a Ghaziabad man, a Ghaziabad man, a Ghaziabad man and a Ghaziabad man — whom they had picked up on 8 November 1996 and shot dead at Macheri ki pulia on the Modi Nagar-Hapur Road, falsely showing an exchange of fire. All four drew life terms plus consecutive RI counts for false evidence and destroying evidence, with half the fines directed to the victims' families. The CBI had registered the case in April 1997 at the UP Government's request and chargesheeted five policemen in 2001, one of whom died during trial.",
 "court_quote": "The Trial Court found the four accused persons guilty and convicted them on 20.02.2017.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-01+t2w2-13",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-01-004": "holds",
   "t2w2-13-001": "wrong_facts"
  },
  "applied": [
   "conviction_date"
  ],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "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": "t2w2-01-004=holds, t2w2-13-001=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "conviction_date"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI vs UP Police Station Officer (then SO)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}