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 "case_id": "t2w2-08-037",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:10:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC dismissed appeal and confirmed Senior PSI 's 30-11-1999 conviction (ss.304-II/331, concurrent 10y RI) for 1988 Petlad custodial death.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Kheda",
 "court": "Additional Sessions Judge, Kheda at Nadiad",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, Kheda at Nadiad (Sessions Case No.172/91)",
 "case_title": "State vs Kheda Police Senior Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case No.172/91",
 "conviction_date": "1999-11-30",
 "conviction_year": 1999,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1988-02-06",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Senior Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Petlad Rural Police Station, Kheda",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Senior Police Sub-Inspector, Petlad Rural Police Station, Kheda",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kheda man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 331"
 ],
 "sentence": "10 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine (s.304-II; 2 years RI in default); 10 years RI + Rs.5,000 fine (s.331; 1 year RI in default), concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/161601/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/161601/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/forum/custodial-death-31986.asp"
 ],
 "summary": "Senior PSI of Petlad Rural Police Station, who took custody of a Kheda man (an ss.352/504/506(2) + prohibition accused) on 24-hour remand at 3:20 pm on 5 February 1988 and in whose custody the victim was found dead with grave ante-mortem injuries at 2:30 am on 6 February 1988, was convicted on 30 November 1999 by the Additional Sessions Judge, Kheda at Nadiad in Sessions Case No.172/91 under IPC ss.304-II/331 and sentenced to concurrent 10-year RI terms with fines; four co-accused subordinates were discharged for want of evidence. The Gujarat High Court Division Bench (Anil R. Dave & K.S. Jhaveri, JJ.) dismissed his appeal on 4 April 2007, confirming the conviction, holding the appellant offered not even a whisper of explanation for the custodial death and cancelling bail with 5 weeks to surrender.",
 "court_quote": "the appellant-accused has been held guilty of the offence punishable under the provisions of Section 304 Part-II of the Indian Penal Code and has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years with a fine of Rs.10,000/-",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-08",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-08-037": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
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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": "t2w2-08-037=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Kheda Police Senior Police Sub-Inspector",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}