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 "case_id": "t2w2-02-007",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
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   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-050",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:07:35+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Trial court convicted Amarpur ASI (2 yrs RI max + fines) for 1980 custodial blinding; revision dismissed 08.09.1997, upheld.",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Bhagalpur",
 "court": "Trial Magistrate, CBI blinding case, Patna (exact court unstated)",
 "court_level": "magistrate",
 "trial_court_name": "Trial Magistrate, CBI case (Amarpur P.S. Case No. 15(6)80; exact court/number unstated — first appeals Cr. App. 107 & 116/1987)",
 "case_title": "State (CBI) vs Bihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector ('Jamadar Verma')",
 "case_number": "Amarpur P.S. Case No. 15(6)80 (Cr. App. 116/1987; Cr. Rev. 890/1990)",
 "conviction_date": "1987",
 "conviction_year": 1987,
 "date_precision": "year",
 "incident_date": "1980-06-21",
 "incident_year": 1980,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector ('Jamadar Verma')",
   "unit": "Amarpur Police Station, Bhagalpur, Bihar Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector ('Jamadar Verma'), Amarpur Police Station, Bhagalpur, Bihar Police",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bhagalpur man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 326 r/w 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial court: 2 years RI u/s 120B + 1 year RI u/s 326/34 + Rs 1,000 fine under each count (6 months SI in default of each); concurrent. First appeal (Cr. App. 116/1987, joint with Gupta) dismissed, conviction confirmed; Patna HC dismissed his criminal revision (Cr. Rev. 890/1990) on 8 September 1997 — conviction upheld (as recorded in Aftab Alam, J.'s 11 March 1998 judgment in the co-accuseds' revisions)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/771046/shiv-shankar-prasad-gupta-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-respondent/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/771046/shiv-shankar-prasad-gupta-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The trial court (CBI blinding case from Amarpur PS) convicted ASI ('[name withheld]', standing beside the OIC when acid was poured) for the custodial blinding of a Bhagalpur man on 21 June 1980, sentencing him to 2 years RI (120B) + 1 year RI (326/34) with fines. The lower appellate court dismissed his joint first appeal (Cr. App. 116/1987). The Patna High Court dismissed his separate criminal revision (890/1990) on 8 September 1997, upholding the conviction. Exact trial-court name, trial number and conviction date were unstated in the opened revision judgment; the 8.9.1997 revision order itself was not opened (recited in the 11.3.1998 judgment).",
 "court_quote": "Cr. Rev. No. 890 of 1990, filed at the instance of [name withheld]. Verma was heard earlier and was dismissed by a learned Judge of this Court by judgment and order dated 8.9.1997",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-02",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-02-007": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-02-007:appeal_history_note"
  ]
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "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": "t2w2-02-007=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI blinding case arising from Amarpur P.S. Case No. 15(6)80 (blinding of Bhagalpur Man) — State (CBI) vs Bihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector ('Jamadar Verma')",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}