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 "case_id": "t2w2-12-018",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:17:35Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial court convicted PC under IPC 377 (2yr RI + Rs 200); ASJ acquitted but MP HC (Cr.A. 79/1985, 19.01.1989) restored conviction — trial court name/date unstated in HC text.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Ratlam",
 "court": "Judicial Magistrate, Jaora (trial court not named in High Court judgment)",
 "court_level": "magistrate",
 "trial_court_name": "Judicial Magistrate, Jaora (exact court and conviction date unstated in High Court judgment; s.377 trial with appeal to Additional Sessions Judge)",
 "case_title": "State v. Madhya Pradesh Police Constable",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 79 of 1985 (Madhya Pradesh High Court; trial court case number not stated)",
 "conviction_date": "1985",
 "conviction_year": 1985,
 "date_precision": "year",
 "incident_date": "1976-10-11",
 "incident_year": 1976,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Sarafa Chowki, Jaora, District Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Sarafa Chowki, Jaora, District Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 16,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ratlam boy, age 16"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 377"
 ],
 "sentence": "2 years rigorous imprisonment + Rs 200 fine",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
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 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=419891220000&title=state-of-m-p-vs-rampal-singh"
 ],
 "summary": "The trial court convicted Police Constable of Sarafa Chowki, Jaora, under IPC section 377 and sentenced him to 2 years' rigorous imprisonment with a Rs 200 fine for picking up 16-year-old [name withheld] from Jaora railway station around midnight on 11 October 1976 on the pretext that he was a suspect pickpocket, taking him to his chowki-campus quarter and committing sodomy on him, corroborated by medical evidence and the Chemical Examiner's semen finding. The Additional Sessions Judge acquitted him on appeal, but on 19 January 1989 the MP High Court (V.D. Gyani, J., Criminal Appeal No. 79 of 1985) accepted the [name withheld]'s appeal, set aside the acquittal and restored the trial court's conviction and sentence. CAVEAT: exact trial court name and conviction date not stated in the HC judgment (pre-1985).",
 "court_quote": "The accused-respondent has been acquitted of a charge under section 377, IPC by the lower appellant Court.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-12",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
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   "t2w2-12-018": "holds"
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  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault",
 "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": "t2w2-12-018=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Madhya Pradesh Police Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}