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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T16:58:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Mehsana Spl Court conviction (07-03-2024, life RI, ss.302/114 + Atrocities Act) of 3 police accused confirmed via HC bail order; sentence suspended, appeal pending.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Mehsana",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "5th Additional Sessions Judge, Mehsana (Special Atrocity Case No.4 of 2020)",
 "case_title": "State and Others vs Gujarat Police Police officer (rank not stated) and others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Application (for suspension of sentence) No. 2 of 2024 in R/Criminal Appeal No. 2152 of 2024",
 "conviction_date": "2024-03-07",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2020-02-13",
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 "category": "brutality",
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  {
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   "display": "Police officer (rank not stated), Gujarat Police",
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  {
   "rank": "Police officer (rank not stated)",
   "unit": "Gujarat Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police officer (rank not stated), Gujarat Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
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  {
   "rank": "Police officer (rank not stated)",
   "unit": "Gujarat Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police officer (rank not stated), Gujarat Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
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  {
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   "age": 18,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mehsana man, age 18"
  }
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 114",
  "SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act s.3(2)(v)"
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 "sentence": "Rigorous life imprisonment",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-bail-suspension-of-sentence-police-officers-scheduled-caste-boy-murder-279723",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
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 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/crma22024gjhc240517152024303122024-577361.pdf",
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  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-bail-suspension-of-sentence-police-officers-scheduled-caste-boy-murder-279723"
 ],
 "summary": "Three Gujarat police officers including [name withheld] were convicted on 7 March 2024 by the 5th Additional Sessions Judge, Mehsana in Special Atrocity Case No.4/2020 and sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment under IPC ss.302/114 and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for beating to death an [name withheld] arrested by Naroda Police Station on 12-02-2020 who died in custody the next day after escaping a Zonal Safety Home. The Gujarat High Court (Justices Ilesh Vora & S.V. Pinto) suspended the sentence and granted regular bail on 3 December 2024 (2024 LiveLaw (Guj) 199) during pendency of Criminal Appeal No.2152/2024.",
 "court_quote": "The judgment and order of conviction dated 07.03.2024 passed in Special Atrocity Case No. 4 of 2020 by the learned 5th Additional Sessions Judge, Mehsana, is suspended during pendency of the appeal.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
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 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
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 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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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": "t2w2-08-010=holds",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "sentence"
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  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2024-03-07); the previous value (2024-12-03) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Gujarat Police Police officer (rank not stated) and others",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2024-12-03",
 "service": "police",
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}