{
 "case_id": "t2w3-18-007",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w3-18-007": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-080 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:32:02Z",
 "verdict_note": "Sonbhadra fast-track life sentences verified; sections per 2007 HC bail order in same case.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Sonbhadra",
 "court": "Fast-Track Court, Sonbhadra",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Fast-Track Court, Sonbhadra (Judge Avinash Dwivedi)",
 "case_title": "State vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Case Crime No. 63 of 2006, PS Pipri",
 "conviction_date": "2010-01-04",
 "conviction_year": 2010,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2003-09-02",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sonbhadra man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Sonbhadra man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 147",
  "IPC 148",
  "IPC 149",
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 218",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment for all five (pronounced Monday 04-01-2010); nine other accused to be sentenced later (outcome untraced)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": "Indian Express (Express News Service, Lucknow, 05-01-2010)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/five-policemen-get-life-term-fined-in-fake-encounter-case/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1479019/"
 ],
 "summary": "Per the Indian Express Lucknow report, the Sonbhadra fast-track court (Judge Avinash Dwivedi) sentenced SI and constables, [name withheld], [name withheld] and [name withheld] to life with fines for killing a Sonbhadra man and a Sonbhadra man — Jharkhand residents picked up from Jharokhas railway station — in a staged encounter in Rungtola forest on 02-09-2003. The CB-CID FIR (21-02-2006, PS Pipri) followed a magisterial inquiry; sixteen were chargesheeted. The 2007 Allahabad HC bail order in the same case confirms the sections, CB-CID probe and victims; note it styles one applicant '[name withheld] (Constable. 753)' against the IE's '[name withheld]'.",
 "court_quote": "The court described the crime as a shameful act and observed people lose faith in the police due to such acts.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-18",
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  "date": "2026-09-19",
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  },
  "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",
 "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": "t2w3-18-007=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}