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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T17:04:00+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (S.K. Kar J, 03-10-2002) records Sessions Judge Karimganj convicted Havildar 28-06-1995 (307: 7y; 448: 3mo); HC slid 307 to 324.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Karimganj",
 "court": "Sessions Judge, Karimganj",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Judge, Karimganj",
 "case_title": "State vs Assam Police Havildar",
 "case_number": "Sessions Case No. 75 of 1994 (Patharkandi PS Case No. 44/92, GR 223/92)",
 "conviction_date": "1995-06-28",
 "conviction_year": 1995,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1992-03-08",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "raw_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Havildar",
   "unit": "Assam Police (residing at Balipipla Forest office; caught at scene in khaki uniform, armed with gun)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Havildar, Assam Police (residing at Balipipla Forest office; caught at scene in khaki uniform, armed with gun)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Karimganj man"
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 "sections": [
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 448"
 ],
 "sentence": "7 years RI + Rs.500 fine (3 months RI in default) u/s 307 IPC; 3 months RI u/s 448 IPC; concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 7,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1341243/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Gauhati High Court (appellate judgment recording trial conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1341243/",
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 "summary": "The Sessions Judge, Karimganj on 28 June 1995 convicted police Havildar in Sessions Case No. 75 of 1994 for entering the hotel-cum-residence of a Karimganj man at Rangamati (Patharkandi PS Case No. 44/92) in khaki uniform with a gun on 8 March 1992 and firing at him, causing a serious bullet injury to his back. The court sentenced him to 7 years RI with Rs.500 fine under IPC s.307 plus 3 months RI under s.448, concurrent. On appeal the Gauhati High Court on 3 October 2002 partly allowed the appeal, sliding the s.307 conviction down to s.324 IPC (6 months RI + Rs.1,000 fine, compensation to victim) while maintaining the s.448 conviction, and ordered surrender.",
 "court_quote": "The appellant/accused Sri [name withheld] was convicted in connection with Sessions Case No. 75 of 1994 under Section 307/448, IPC by Sessions Judge, Karimganj, vide judgment and order dated 28-6-95.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-20",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
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  },
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  "noted": [
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "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": "t2w3-20-001=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Assam Police Havildar",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}