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 "case_id": "t2w2-03-008",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-03-008": {
   "ds": "flag",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-051",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:11:22Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC-confirmed custodial-death convictions; SC split verdict 2024, reference to larger bench pending.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Gondia",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, Gondia (Sessions Trial No.21/1996)",
 "case_title": "State & Ors vs Gondia Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 1614-1618 of 2012",
 "conviction_date": "2024-09-25",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1995-12-07",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch), Dist. Bhandara (now Gondia)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch), Dist. Bhandara (now Gondia)",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.409)",
   "unit": "Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.409), Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.409 per judgment)",
   "unit": "Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.409 per judgment), Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.1301)",
   "unit": "Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.1301), Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.735)",
   "unit": "Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.735), Gondia City Police Station (Detective Branch)",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (Batch No.997)",
   "unit": "Police Station Gondia",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (Batch No.997), Police Station Gondia",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (Batch No.91)",
   "unit": "Police Station Gondia",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (Batch No.91), Police Station Gondia",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Gondia man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II r/w 34",
  "IPC 331 r/w 34",
  "IPC 330 r/w 34",
  "IPC 348 r/w 34",
  "IPC 387 r/w 34",
  "IPC 201 r/w 34",
  "IPC 218 r/w 34",
  "IPC 202 r/w 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "A-2 & A-4: 7 yrs RI + Rs.4,000 (s.304-II); A-2/A-3/A-4/A-5: 3 yrs RI + Rs.1,000 (s.331); 1 yr RI + Rs.1,000 (ss.330/348/387); A-3/A-5/A-6/A-7: 3 mo RI + Rs.500 (s.202); A-2..A-7: 1 yr RI + Rs.1,000 (ss.201/218); concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 7,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/manik-v-the-state-of-maharashtrawatermark-1655838.pdf",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/manik-v-the-state-of-maharashtrawatermark-1655838.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/708824/",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/amp/court-updates/supreme-court/manik-v-the-state-of-maharashtra-2024-insc-734-split-verdict-custodial-death-case-1552648"
 ],
 "summary": "In Sessions Trial No.21/1996 the Additional Sessions Judge, Gondia, convicted seven Gondia City police personnel — PSI (A-1), constables [name withheld], [name withheld] (A-3), [name withheld] (A-4), [name withheld] [name withheld], [name withheld] [name withheld] and [name withheld] [name withheld] — for the custodial torture and death of history-sheeter [name withheld] (taken into custody 7 December 1995, tortured in the Detective Branch room; body burnt and buried in MP, with a decoy passed off as an escapee), sentencing A-2 and A-4 to 7 years RI under IPC s.304-II/34 plus terms under ss.331/330/348/387/201/218 (full names and ranks from the Bombay High Court judgment, Crl Appeals 64-65/71/76-77/88 of 1997). The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench, Justice A.H. Joshi) confirmed the convictions on 12 July 2011 (except s.201/34); on 25 September 2024 the Supreme Court delivered a split verdict (2024 INSC 734) — acquittal vs confirmation — leaving final appellate outcome pending before a larger bench. Exact trial judgment date not stated in either appellate judgment; 1997 per appeal numbering.",
 "court_quote": "I would maintain the convictions and sentences of the appellants, as confirmed by the High Court, and dismiss all the appeals.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-008": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "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": "t2w2-03-008=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Gondia Police Police Sub-Inspector and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}