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 "case_id": "t2w2-08-012",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-08-012": {
   "ds": "flag",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-059 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:41:53Z",
 "verdict_note": "Special CBI Court Mumbai convicted HC (3 yrs RI) on 21-01-2008 for false records/refusing a woman complaint; some reports mislist him among HC-2017 convicts.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Dahod",
 "court": "Special CBI Court, Mumbai (trial transferred from Gujarat by Supreme Court; Judge U.D. Salvi)",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Mumbai (Judge U.D. Salvi; trial transferred from Gujarat by Supreme Court)",
 "case_title": "CBI vs Gujarat Police Head Constable & Ors (B. B. case)",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case No. 634 of 2004 (Special Judge, Greater Mumbai)",
 "conviction_date": "2008-01-21",
 "conviction_year": 2008,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-03-03",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "raw_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Limkheda Police Station, Dahod, Gujarat Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Limkheda Police Station, Dahod, Gujarat Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Dahod woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 217",
  "IPC 218"
 ],
 "sentence": "Not confirmed in sources reviewed",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.livemint.com/Politics/ID93J9sUnI1x0dWAX6mtoN/Bilkis-Bano-case-Bombay-HC-upholds-life-imprisonment-to-11.html?facet=amp",
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2022/38741/38741_2022_12_1501_49383_Judgement_08-Jan-2024.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilkis_Bano_case",
  "http://pucl.org/manage-writings/the-twenty-two-year-old-struggle-of-bilkis-bano-a-journey-of-hope-courage-and-camaraderie/",
  "https://www.newsfolo.com/india/bombay-high-court-rejects-cbis-death-plea-convicts-bilkis-bano-case/2708/amp/",
  "https://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/bombay-hc-upholds-conviction-of-12-accused-in-2002-bilkis-bano-gang-rape-case/"
 ],
 "summary": "Head Constable of Limkheda Police Station (Dahod) was convicted on 21 January 2008 by Special CBI Judge U.D. Salvi in Mumbai — where the Supreme Court had transferred the [name withheld] trial — for falsifying evidence/refusing to record [name withheld]'s initial complaint after the March 2002 gang-rape and murder of her family during the Gujarat riots; eleven other accused received life imprisonment while six other police officials and two doctors were acquitted at trial. The Bombay High Court in May 2017 upheld the life sentences and additionally convicted the seven trial-acquitted policemen/doctors; the appeal status of his own trial conviction is not confirmed in the sources reviewed.",
 "court_quote": "The police officer, [name withheld] was convicted of the offence punishable under Sections 217 and 218 of the IPC.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-08-012": "wrong_facts"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-08-012:appeal_status",
   "t2w2-08-012:summary_acquittals"
  ]
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "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": "t2w2-08-012=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Official source added: Supreme Court judgment of 08.01.2024 in W.P.(Crl.) No. 491 of 2022 (sci.gov.in), para 3.3: the Special Judge, Greater Mumbai, by judgment dated 21.01.2008 in Sessions Case No. 634 of 2004, convicted the police officer under Sections 217 and 218 IPC."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Court quote replaced with the Supreme Court judgment of 08.01.2024, para 3.3 (the earlier text was a news report line, not the court)."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI vs Gujarat Police Head Constable and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}