{
 "case_id": "t2w2-13-006",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-13-006": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-072 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T14:08:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI PR plus HT/SSN court reporting confirm Spl CBI Judge Patiala sentenced 6 Sangrur policemen on 11 Mar 2013 for 1993 [name withheld] abduction-disappearance.",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Sangrur",
 "court": "Special Judge for CBI Cases, Patiala",
 "court_level": "cbi_court",
 "trial_court_name": "Special CBI Court, Patiala (Spl Judge Hemant Gupta)",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Punjab Police SP (SSP Amritsar Rural at verdict)",
 "case_number": "CBI case registered 23.08.1995 (P&H HC order 21.07.1995; chargesheet April 2000; charges framed 06.11.2002)",
 "conviction_date": "2013-03-11",
 "conviction_year": 2013,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1993-05-12",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance",
 "raw_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "SP (SSP Amritsar Rural at verdict)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Sangrur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "SP (SSP Amritsar Rural at verdict), Punjab Police, Sangrur",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Inspector (retd DSP)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Bhawanigarh",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector (retd DSP), Punjab Police, Bhawanigarh",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable (SI at verdict)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Sangrur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable (SI at verdict), Punjab Police, Sangrur",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable (HC at verdict)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Sangrur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (HC at verdict), Punjab Police, Sangrur",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "SHO (DSP at verdict)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Malerkotla",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "SHO (DSP at verdict), Punjab Police, Malerkotla",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable (retired)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (retired), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 29,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sangrur man, age 29"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sangrur man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 343",
  "IPC 346",
  "IPC 364",
  "IPC 365",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "Virk, [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld]: 10 yr RI (ss.120B/342/343/346/364); [name withheld], [name withheld]: 3 yr RI (ss.34/342/343/346/365); all sent to Central Jail Patiala",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://sikhsiyasatnews.net/high-court-declines-to-suspend-sentence-of-ssp-preetpal-virk-in-1993-abduction-case/",
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/MzY0NQ==",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://sikhsiyasatnews.net/high-court-declines-to-suspend-sentence-of-ssp-preetpal-virk-in-1993-abduction-case/",
  "https://sikhsiyasatnews.net/ssp-preetpal-singh-virk-3-others-get-10-yrs-jail-in-a-1993-case-for-abduction-and-custodial-torture/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Special CBI Court at Patiala (Spl Judge Hemant Gupta) on 11 March 2013 sentenced then-SP (Detective) [name withheld] and three others to 10 years' RI for criminal conspiracy, wrongful confinement and kidnapping in order to murder footballer a Sangrur man (29), picked up with his father [name withheld] on 12-13 May 1993, tortured in illegal custody, re-abducted from Kolkata on 6 June 1993 and never seen again. Then-SHO [name withheld] [name withheld] [name withheld] and retired constable got three years' RI for assisting; the Punjab & Haryana High Court later declined to suspend Virk's sentence.",
 "court_quote": "The court of special judge Hemant Gupta held PPS officer Virk and three other cops namely [name withheld], [name withheld] and [name withheld] guilty under sections 120(B), 342, 343, 346 and 364 of the IPC for hatching a criminal conspiracy, wrongful confinement and abduction in order to murder.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-13",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-13-006": "wrong_facts"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-13-006:kolkata_reabduction_date"
  ]
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance",
 "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": "t2w2-13-006=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Punjab Police SP (SSP Amritsar Rural at verdict)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}