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 "case_id": "t2w2-03-004",
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 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
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  "t2w2-03-004": {
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   "mverify": "accept",
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-051",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:08:10Z",
 "verdict_note": "Sessions-court murder conviction of a police employee (trial date not stated); death sentence commuted to life by the High Court on 11 August 2003. Source: 26 Nov 2024 Bombay HC writ order.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Nagpur",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "2nd Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur",
 "case_title": "State vs Maharashtra Police Police personnel (rank not stated)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 38 of 2024",
 "conviction_date": null,
 "conviction_year": null,
 "date_precision": "unknown",
 "incident_date": "2001-02-24",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "murder",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police personnel (rank not stated)",
   "unit": "Maharashtra Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel (rank not stated), Maharashtra Police",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Nagpur woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 498A"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment for murder (IPC s.302): the Sessions Court's death sentence was commuted to life by the Bombay High Court on 11 August 2003. Also 3 years RI and Rs 3,000 fine under s.498-A; acquitted under s.304-B.",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Pradipsingh-Thakur-vs-State-of-Maharashtra.pdf",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://lawtrend.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Pradipsingh-Thakur-vs-State-of-Maharashtra.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/pradipsingh-murlidharsingh-thakur-v-the-state-of-maharashtra-ors-2024bhc-nag13098-db-bombay-high-court-1559889"
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 "summary": "The 2nd Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur, in Sessions Trial No.301/2001 convicted a police-department employee of strangling his wife on 24 February 2001 over unfulfilled dowry demands, sentencing him to death under IPC s.302 plus 3 years RI under s.498-A (acquitted under s.304-B); the trial judgment's exact date is not stated in the orders on record. On 11 August 2003 the Bombay High Court (Criminal Appeal No.141/2003 with Confirmation Case No.2/2003) upheld the conviction but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. The cited source is a later Bombay High Court order of 26 November 2024 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 38 of 2024, which records this history.",
 "court_quote": "The Sessions Court believing the testimony of PW-1 [name withheld], brother of deceased and PW-11 [name withheld], convicted the petitioner for an offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC and sentenced him to be hanged till death.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-004": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-25",
 "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": "t2w2-03-004=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial date was wrongly taken from the 2024 source order; current sentence (life, commuted 2003) shown; name and witness names redacted."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Maharashtra Police Police personnel (rank not stated)",
 "conviction_date_note": "before the Bombay High Court decided the appeal on 11 August 2003",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}