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 "case_id": "t2w2-03-009",
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  "t2w2-14-002"
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 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:45:04Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction of 4 constables proved by HRW + Hindu; 4th name unstated; appeals pending.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai",
 "court": "City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Judge S.M. Bhosale)",
 "case_title": "State vs Mumbai Police Police Constable",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case SC 309/2014",
 "conviction_date": "2016-01-30",
 "conviction_year": 2016,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2013-10-26",
 "incident_year": 2013,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Vanrai Police Station, Goregaon, Mumbai",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 20,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai man, age 20"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 330"
 ],
 "sentence": "7 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine each",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 7.0,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/89092543/",
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/21/how-four-policemen-mumbai-were-convicted-torturing-and-killing-man",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://IAMC.COM/iamc-weekly-news-roundup-february-8th-2016/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/89092543/",
  "https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/india1216_web_0.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "The City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Judge Shridhar S.M. Bhosale), in Sessions Case SC 309/2014, on Saturday 30 January 2016 convicted four Vanrai (Goregaon) police constables — Chandrakant Kamble, Kiran Pingle, Umesh Gosavi and one more — for torturing 20-year-old theft suspect [name withheld] to death in custody on the night of 26 October 2013 (56 injuries; post-mortem: head injury with multiple injuries), sentencing each to 7 years RI plus Rs.10,000 fine under IPC ss.304-II and 330; the first custodial-death conviction in Maharashtra, secured after appointment of special PP Rati Amrolia. Convicts' appeals (Crl A. 236/241/250 of 2016) and the victim family's appeals (271/2016, 243/2018) were still pending before the Bombay High Court as of 24 July 2025 (stood over to 25-09-2025).",
 "court_quote": "Judge Shridhar Bhosale at the City Civil Court and Sessions Court on Saturday convicted four police constables charged with the murder of 20-year-old a Mumbai man, the son of vegetable [name withheld] parents, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 each.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03+t2w2-14",
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  "date": "2026-09-19",
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   "t2w2-14-002": "holds"
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  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
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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": "t2w2-03-009=holds, t2w2-14-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Mumbai Police Police Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}