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 "case_id": "t2w2-08-024",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-060 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:40:05Z",
 "verdict_note": "Conviction per PTI; single-source for verdict, background corroborated; ex-police private murder.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Rajkot",
 "court": "Sessions Court, Rajkot",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Rajkot (Judge S.V. Sharma)",
 "case_title": "State vs Gujarat Police Ex-policeman (rank/unit not stated)",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2025-01-30",
 "conviction_year": 2025,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2016-02-28",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Ex-policeman (rank/unit not stated)",
   "unit": "Gujarat Police (former)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Ex-policeman (rank/unit not stated), Gujarat Police (former)",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Rajkot man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment + fine (each of 3 convicts; 4 co-accused acquitted)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3245929-gujarat-businessmans-life-sentence-brings-justice-to-2016-murder-case",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5808ea682713e175bec1a500",
  "https://www.gujaratheadline.com/rajmoti-oil-mill-owner-samir-shah-will-be-declared-absconder-shah-went-underground/"
 ],
 "summary": "Ex-policeman [name withheld] was sentenced to life imprisonment with fine on 30 January 2025 by Rajkot Sessions Judge S.V. Sharma along with businessman [name withheld] and driver [name withheld] for the 2016 murder of oil-mill manager a Rajkot man, who was suspected of embezzling Rs.65 lakh and died after a violent confrontation; approver Samir Gandhi was the key witness and four other employees were acquitted. Single-source record (PTI via DevDiscourse); exact sections, Bhatt's former rank/unit and appeal status not stated.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-08-024": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "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": "t2w2-08-024=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Gujarat Police Ex-policeman (rank/unit not stated)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}