{
 "case_id": "t2w2-10-062",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w2-10-062": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-066",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:18:34Z",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment (12.11.2009, 2009 (17) SCC 445) confirms custodial-death conviction of SHO; standing term 5yr + Rs 5L compensation.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Shahdara",
 "court": "Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi",
 "case_title": "State v. Delhi Police Inspector (SHO) and others",
 "case_number": "Death Ref. 01/2007 (Crl.A. 1440-1441/2008 in SC)",
 "conviction_date": "2006-12-13",
 "conviction_year": 2006,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1987-08-24",
 "incident_year": 1987,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Inspector (SHO)",
   "unit": "PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector (SHO), PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police officer (rank not stated in opened sources)",
   "unit": "PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police officer (rank not stated in opened sources), PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shahdara man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Shahdara man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 217",
  "IPC 218",
  "IPC 201"
 ],
 "sentence": "[name withheld]: death sentence (15.12.2006) → 8yr RI+Rs 2L (HC 05.03.2008) → 5yr RI+Rs 5L compensation (SC 12.11.2009); [name withheld]/[name withheld] sentence quanta not stated in opened sources",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1316909/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1316909/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/490607/",
  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/390336/tej-singh-appellant-hash-state-and-another-respondent/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Additional Sessions Judge, Karkardooma convicted SHO of PS Vivek Vihar on 13.12.2006 under sections 302/342/120B IPC for the custodial beating-death of [name withheld] - picked up with a Shahdara man on 24.08.1987 in revenge for stabbing Ct Rishipal on Janmashtami (16.08.1987), beaten at his instance, [name withheld] dying the next day - sentencing him to death on 15.12.2006, and convicted [name withheld] (s.217) and SI (ss.218/201) for shielding; the case reached trial only via the deceased father's complaint after an 'untraced' report. On 05.03.2008 the High Court declined the death reference, converting [name withheld] to section 304-II with 8 years RI, and on 12.11.2009 the Supreme Court confirmed the conviction, reducing the term to 5 years RI with Rs 5 lakh compensation to [name withheld]'s mother.",
 "court_quote": "we confirm the conviction as recorded by the High Court but reduce the sentence from 8 years to five years and increase the fine from rupees two lacs to five lacs.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-10",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
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  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-10-062:officers_2_rank"
  ]
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "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": "t2w2-10-062=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Delhi Police Inspector (SHO) and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}