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 "case_id": "t2w2-14-012",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-073",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:22:00+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Sessions judgment 06.01.2004 ([name withheld] life; [name withheld]/[name withheld] 5y) confirmed verbatim in Delhi HC 03.01.2018; HC upheld [name withheld] + [name withheld], acquitted [name withheld].",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Central Delhi",
 "court": "Sessions Court, Delhi",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Delhi (FIR No. 430/91, PS Lahori Gate; exact ASJ court not stated in HC judgment)",
 "case_title": "State v. Central Delhi Police Constable (at time of offence) and others",
 "case_number": "FIR No. 430/91, PS Lahori Gate",
 "conviction_date": "2004-01-06",
 "conviction_year": 2004,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1991-05-02",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable (at time of offence)",
   "unit": "Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (at time of offence), Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Inspector (SHO)",
   "unit": "Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector (SHO), Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 304 Part II",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "[name withheld]: life + Rs 80,000 fine (302), 2 years RI + Rs 1,000 (330), 6 months RI + Rs 500 (348); [name withheld] and [name withheld]: 5 years RI + Rs 50,000 fine each (304-II/34)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43971311/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43971311/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Sessions Court, Delhi (FIR No. 430/91, PS Lahori Gate) on 6 January 2004 convicted three Delhi Police officers for beating to death a Central Delhi man, a peon-cum-watchman picked up on the night of 1 May 1991 and assaulted on the second floor of Lahori Gate police station on 2 May 1991 — Constable demanding Rs 500 then Rs 5,000 from the victim's father for his release — until he vomited blood, dying of his injuries at St. Stephen Hospital on 10 May 1991; charges had been framed in 1997 (304-II/34, 330/348/34) with an additional murder charge in October 2002. [name withheld] received life imprisonment (302) plus terms under sections 330 and 348, while SHO Inspector and SI received five years RI each under section 304-II/34. The Delhi High Court (Justices G.S. Sistani and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, Crl.A. Nos. 54, 81, 198 of 2004, 3 January 2018) upheld the convictions and sentences of [name withheld] and [name withheld] but acquitted [name withheld]; private co-convict Manohar Lal Narang died pending appeal.",
 "court_quote": "This is a classic case when the guardians of law became its transgressors and the whole might of the [name withheld] came down upon one individual",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-14",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-14-012": "wrong_facts"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-14-012:appeal_status"
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 "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": "t2w2-14-012=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Central Delhi Police Constable (at time of offence)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}