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 "case_id": "t2w2-13-003",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w2-13-003": {
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   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:17:35Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI PR confirms CBI Spl Court Ghaziabad sentenced 17 Bijnor policemen to life 29.03.2012 (ss.120B/364/302) for [name withheld] fake encounter — district corrected to Bijnor.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Bijnor",
 "court": "CBI Special Court, Ghaziabad",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Ghaziabad",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Bijnor Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "CBI RC registered 15.11.1993 (on Supreme Court order, Crl WP 632/92)",
 "conviction_date": "2012-03-29",
 "conviction_year": 2012,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1992-10-30",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Bijnor Police, UP",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bijnor Police, UP",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "various ranks (16 personnel)",
   "unit": "Bijnor Police, UP",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "various ranks (16 personnel), Bijnor Police, UP",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bijnor man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 364",
  "IPC 302"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment to all 17 + Rs.5,000 fine each (2 of 19 chargesheeted died during trial)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157781726/",
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/Mzk4Mg==",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://sikhsiyasatnews.net/rare-conviction-after-22-years-of-killing-a-sikh-in-fake-encounter-indian-cops-get-life-term/",
  "https://www.manipur.org/news/2012/03/29/17-sentenced-in-fake-encounter-case/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Special CBI Court at Ghaziabad on 29 March 2012 convicted 17 Bijnor policemen led by then-SI [name withheld] under ss. 120B/364/302 IPC and sentenced each to life imprisonment plus Rs.5,000 fine for abducting a Bijnor man @ a Bijnor man, a Gurdwara Rakabganj sewadar, from Delhi on 30 October 1992 and murdering him in a staged encounter near Kashiwala village (PS Bardhapur, Bijnor) the next day with planted weapons. The CBI had registered the case on 15 November 1993 on Supreme Court orders (Crl WP 632/92) and chargesheeted 19 officials in March 1996, two of whom died during trial.",
 "court_quote": "The CBI Special Court, Ghaziabad (UP) has convicted 17 accused persons U/s 120-B r/w 364 & 302 of IPC in a fake encounter case and sentenced them to undergo Life Imprisonment with a fine of Rs.5000/- each.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-13",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-13-003": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "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": "t2w2-13-003=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Bijnor Police Sub-Inspector",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}