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 "case_id": "t2w3-21-001",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T17:08:00+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "CG HC DB (19-06-2025, 2025:CGHC:25748-DB) dismissed appeal; ADJ Spl Court (Naxal) Dantewada convicted CRPF Constable 27-08-2024 (4x life + terms, concurrent).",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Bijapur",
 "court": "Additional Sessions Judge, Special Court (Naxal), Dantewada",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, Special Court (Naxal), Dantewada (District South Bastar Dantewada)",
 "case_title": "State of Chhattisgarh vs CRPF Constable",
 "case_number": "Sessions Trial No. 104/2018; CRA No. 1950 of 2024 (Chhattisgarh HC)",
 "conviction_date": "2024-08-27",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2017-12-09",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "CRPF 168th Battalion, G Company, Basaguda, District Bijapur, Chhattisgarh",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, CRPF 168th Battalion, G Company, Basaguda, District Bijapur, Chhattisgarh",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bijapur man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bijapur man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bijapur man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bijapur man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Bijapur man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302 (four counts)",
  "IPC 307",
  "Arms Act s.25(1B)(a)",
  "Arms Act s.27(1)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment on each of four s.302 counts + 10 years RI (s.307) + 2 years RI (s.25(1B)(a)) + 3 years RI (s.27(1)), all concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/cra1950241906252-1723759.pdf",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Chhattisgarh High Court — CRA No. 1950 of 2024, Neutral Citation 2025:CGHC:25748-DB, judgment dated 19-06-2025 (CJ Ramesh Sinha with Justice Bibhu Datta Guru), recording the trial-court conviction and sentence",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/cra1950241906252-1723759.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/chattisgarh-high-court/chhattisgarh-high-court-upholds-conviction-crpf-constable-murder-of-four-personnel-strenuous-conditions-naxal-area-295755",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/06/27/chhattisgarh-hc-upholds-conviction-crpf-personnel-killed-colleagues/"
 ],
 "summary": "Per the Chhattisgarh High Court appeal judgment, CRPF Constable was convicted on 27-08-2024 by the Additional Sessions Judge, Special Court (Naxal), Dantewada in Sessions Trial No. 104/2018 for opening fire with service rifles at the CRPF camp on 09-12-2017 over a duty-allotment grudge, killing four colleagues and injuring ASI, and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus concurrent fixed terms with fines. The Division Bench dismissed his appeal on 19-06-2025, holding that stressful Naxal-area working conditions cannot justify murder and that the injured-eyewitness testimony and premeditation proved guilt beyond reasonable doubt.",
 "court_quote": "Accordingly, the appeal being devoid of merit is liable to be and is hereby dismissed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-21",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-21-001": "holds"
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  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "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": "t2w3-21-001=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State of Chhattisgarh v. CRPF Constable",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}