{
 "case_id": "t2w2-08-023",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-08-023": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-060",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:13:26Z",
 "verdict_note": "SC (2011) 6 SCC 369 set aside HC acquittals; all three Barmer policemen convicted for custodial torture.",
 "state": "Rajasthan",
 "district": "Barmer",
 "court": "Sessions Court, Barmer (designation not stated in SC judgment; CBI charge-sheet case)",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Trial Court (CBI charge-sheet case; exact designation not stated in SC judgment)",
 "case_title": "CBI vs Rajasthan Police Constable",
 "case_number": "SC Crl. Appeal Nos. 2047-2049/2010 (SLP(Crl) 8485-87/2009)",
 "conviction_date": "2005-12-21",
 "conviction_year": 2005,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1994-02-02",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Rajasthan Police (Barmer)",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Kishore Singh",
   "display": "Kishore Singh (Constable)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Kishore Singh"
  },
  {
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Rajasthan Police (Barmer)",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Sumer Dan",
   "display": "Sumer Dan (Assistant Sub-Inspector)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Sumer Dan"
  },
  {
   "rank": "SHO",
   "unit": "Rajasthan Police (Barmer)",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Sohan Singh",
   "display": "Sohan Singh (SHO)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Sohan Singh"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Barmer man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC s.326",
  "IPC s.342",
  "IPC s.120B"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial: Kishore Singh life (s.326) + 7yr RI (s.308) + ss.323/343 terms; Sumer Dan 10yr RI (s.326/114) + 7yr RI (s.308/114) + 5yr RI (s.120B); Sohan Singh 6mo RI (s.323) + 1yr RI (s.343)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1473938/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1473938/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.amnesty.org/ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/asa200171994en.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "Constable Kishore Singh, ASI Sumer Dan and SHO Sohan Singh kept [name withheld] in a Barmer police lock-up from 2 to 5 February 1994 without producing him before a magistrate and subjected him to third-degree torture culminating in Kishore Singh severing his penis with a razor while Sumer Dan held him; the trial court convicted all three on 21 December 2005 (life for Kishore Singh under s.326, 10 years for Sumer Dan, short terms for Sohan Singh) on a CBI charge-sheet. The Rajasthan High Court (19-11-2008) acquitted Sohan Singh and Sumer Dan and reduced Kishore Singh's sentence, but the Supreme Court (T.S. Thakur & Markandey Katju, JJ., (2011)6SCC369) on 25 October 2010 set aside the HC judgment as a 'gross travesty of justice', sentencing Kishore Singh to 5 years' RI (s.326) + 6 months (s.342), Sumer Dan to 3 years' RI (s.326/120B) + 6 months (s.342), and Sohan Singh to 6 months' SI (s.342), with fines payable as victim compensation.",
 "court_quote": "We are of the opinion that the judgment of the High Court acquitting accused Sohan Singh and Sumer Dan and reducing the sentence of accused Kishore Singh cannot be sustained as it amounts to gross travesty of justice.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-08-023": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "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": "t2w2-08-023=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI vs Rajasthan Police Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}