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 "case_id": "t2w2-11-023",
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 "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC affirmed trial conviction on all counts, commuted death to life.",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Uttar Dinajpur",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Judge, Raiganj (exact designation not stated in appellate judgment)",
 "case_title": "State Sri v. West Bengal Police Armed Constable",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "1998-05-13",
 "conviction_year": 1998,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1995-10-26",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "rape",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
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   "rank": "Armed Constable",
   "unit": "4th Armed Battalion, West Bengal Police, Raiganj",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Armed Constable, 4th Armed Battalion, West Bengal Police, Raiganj",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 10,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Uttar Dinajpur girl, age 10"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 363",
  "IPC 366",
  "IPC 376",
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 201"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial court: death sentence under s.302 IPC (no separate sentences for other counts); on appeal (13 May 1998) conviction affirmed, death commuted to imprisonment for life",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1987194/",
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  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/850229/sri-ashim-dutta-alias-nilu-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Sessions Judge convicted armed constable of the 4th Armed Battalion at Raiganj for kidnapping, raping and strangling 10-year-old [name withheld] on 26 October 1995 and throwing her body in a pond, sentencing him to death under section 302 IPC. The Calcutta High Court on 13 May 1998 affirmed the conviction on all counts (ss.363/366/376/302/201) but commuted the death sentence to imprisonment for life, holding the unpremeditated crime was not rarest-of-rare.",
 "court_quote": "The appellant, admittedly, was an armed Constable attached to the 4th armed battalion of West Bengal Police, posted to Raiganj.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-11",
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  "date": "2026-09-19",
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  "noted": []
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 "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": "t2w2-11-023=holds",
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 "case_title_or_number": "State v. West Bengal Police Armed Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}