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 "case_id": "t2w2-10-040",
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T17:05:00+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Sessions Court convicted guard-constable Surender Singh of murder (28.01.2008); Delhi HC and SC (03.07.2024) upheld.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "East Delhi",
 "court": "Sessions Court, Delhi",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Delhi (Mayur Vihar case; exact ASJ court not stated in appellate judgments)",
 "case_title": "State v. Surender Singh (Mayur Vihar PS shooting, 30.06.2002)",
 "case_number": "Conviction 28.01.2008; appeal Crl.A. 202/2008 (Delhi HC); 2024 INSC 462 (SC)",
 "conviction_date": "2008-01-28",
 "conviction_year": 2008,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-06-30",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable (santri/police guard)",
   "unit": "PS Mayur Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Surender Singh",
   "display": "Surender Singh (Constable (santri/police guard))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Surender Singh"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "East Delhi man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "East Delhi resident"
  }
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment (s.302) + 7 years RI (s.307)",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/surender-singh-v-statewatermark-1635732.pdf",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/805295/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawbeat.in/amp/top-stories/man-killed-inside-police-station-supreme-court-upholds-conviction-constable",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/surender-singh-v-statewatermark-1635732.pdf"
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 "summary": "The trial court convicted on-duty police-guard Constable Surender Singh on 28.01.2008 for firing indiscriminately with his issued SAF carbine at the gate of PS Mayur Vihar on 30.06.2002, killing relative an East Delhi man and injuring HC, holding it intentional murder and rejecting self-defence. He was sentenced to life imprisonment plus seven years RI. The Delhi High Court upheld the conviction on 18.05.2011 (Crl.A. 202/2008) and the Supreme Court confirmed it on 03.07.2024 (2024 INSC 462).",
 "court_quote": "The learned Trial Judge has also convicted appellant for the offence punishable under Section 307 IPC for the injuries suffered by HC [name withheld] who was injured due to indiscriminate firing by the appellant. The appellant has been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-10",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
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  "noted": []
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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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": "t2w2-10-040=holds",
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  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Surender Singh (Mayur Vihar PS shooting, FIR 30.06.2002)",
 "service": "police",
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}