{
 "case_id": "t2w2-08-026",
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 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
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  "t2w2-08-026": {
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
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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": "Dereliction conviction verified via ANI; exact sections and appeal status unstated.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Mehsana",
 "court": "Designated (SIT) Court, Mehsana",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Designated (SIT) Court, Mehsana (Judge S.C. Srivastava)",
 "case_title": "SIT vs [name withheld] & Ors (Deepda Darwaza massacre, Visnagar)",
 "case_number": "CR 1-60/2002",
 "conviction_date": "2012-07-30",
 "conviction_year": 2012,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-02-28",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "raw_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Inspector (former PI, Visnagar town; retired by verdict)",
   "unit": "Visnagar Police, Mehsana, Gujarat Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Inspector (former PI, Visnagar town; retired by verdict), Visnagar Police, Mehsana, Gujarat Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Mehsana woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [],
 "sentence": "1 year imprisonment",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.legalindia.com/news/hc-admits-sit-appeals-in-deepda-darwaza-case",
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.legalindia.com/news/hc-admits-sit-appeals-in-deepda-darwaza-case",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.manipur.org/news/2012/07/30/61-in-deepda-darwaza-riots-case/",
  "https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Life+imprisonment+for+21+in+Gujarat+massacre-a0298086378"
 ],
 "summary": "Former Visnagar town Police Inspector was convicted of dereliction of duty and sentenced to one year's imprisonment on 30 July 2012 by designated SIT Judge S.[name withheld], Mehsana, in the Deepda Darwaza massacre case (CR 1-60/2002) in which 11 members of one family were burnt alive on 28 February 2002; 21 co-accused received life terms under IPC s.307 (murder/conspiracy charges dropped) and 61 were acquitted. The SIT appealed the acquittals and sought s.307-to-s.302 enhancement for the 21 (admitted by the Gujarat High Court DB on 7 May 2013); whether Patel challenged his own conviction is not stated. ANI copy names the officer as 'former police inspector of Visnagar town, M K Patel'.",
 "court_quote": "former police inspector of Visnagar town, M K Patel, has been convicted of dereliction of duty.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-08-026": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "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": "t2w2-08-026=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "SIT vs [name withheld] & Ors (Deepda Darwaza massacre, Visnagar; 11 of family burnt alive 28-02-2002; CR 1-60/2002)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}