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 "case_id": "t2w2-07-009",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:26:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Sessions-court murder-conspiracy conviction of DySP [name withheld] affirmed by HC and SC; appeal dismissed.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kottayam",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Kottayam",
 "case_title": "R. Shaji vs [name withheld] of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No.1774 of 2010; HC Crl.A.No.86 of 2006; trial S.C.No.145 of 2005 (Sessions Court, Kottayam)",
 "conviction_date": "2006-01-03",
 "conviction_year": 2006,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2004-11-01",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (then serving at Malappuram)",
   "unit": "Kerala Police (A1; kingpin who hired assassins)",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "R. Shaji",
   "display": "R. Shaji (Deputy Superintendent of Police (then serving at Malappuram))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "R. Shaji"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kottayam man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302 r/w 120B",
  "IPC 201 r/w 120B",
  "IPC 364 r/w 120B"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment + Rs 1,00,000 fine (default 1 year SI) for s.302 r/w 120-B; 3 years + Rs 2,000 fine (default 3 months SI) for s.201 r/w 120-B; 7 years RI + Rs 5,000 fine (default 1 year SI) for s.364 r/w 120-B; all concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/178895486/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/178895486/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/534372/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Sessions Court, Kottayam convicted Deputy Superintendent of Police R. Shaji (A1) in SC 145/2005 on 03-01-2006 for hatching a criminal conspiracy and getting his driver [name withheld] murdered and dismembered in late 2004 after discovering a Kottayam man's relationship with his wife, sentencing him to life imprisonment with a Rs 1 lakh fine plus consecutive-term sentences for evidence-destruction and kidnapping, all concurrent. The Kerala High Court (Crl.A.86/2006, 10-12-2009) dismissed his appeal, and the Supreme Court (Justices B.[name withheld] and V. Gopala Gowda, Crl.A.1774/2010, 04-02-2013, AIR 2013 SC 651) dismissed the further appeal finding no merit, confirming the conviction and sentence. Co-accused [name withheld] (A2, private) got life plus concurrent terms; A3/A4 were convicted in a separate trial (SC 120/2006) though later acquitted on appeal, and A5 remained absconding.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above, we do not find any merit in the appeal and the same is dismissed accordingly.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-07",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-07-009": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "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": "t2w2-07-009=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to 2006-01-03 as stated in the summary; the previous value was the date of the Supreme Court judgment of 4 February 2013."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs R. Shaji (A1, DySP) and Vinu (A2) — SC No.145/2005 (Kottayam Man murder, Crime 110/2005 Ettumanoor PS)",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2013-02-04",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}