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 "case_id": "t2w3-32-003",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-32-003": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-086",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:26:12Z",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verifies Sessions trial conviction of Vempalli police trio; SC convicted all three under IPC 330 with 5 years RI.",
 "state": "Andhra Pradesh",
 "district": "YSR Kadapa",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Judge, Anantapur Division",
 "case_title": "State of Andhra Pradesh v. YSR Kadapa Police Head Constable and others",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 142 of 1961",
 "conviction_date": null,
 "conviction_year": null,
 "date_precision": "unknown",
 "incident_date": "1957-01-08",
 "incident_year": 1957,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Vempalli Police Station, Cuddapah District (undivided Andhra Pradesh)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Vempalli Police Station, Cuddapah District (undivided Andhra Pradesh)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "YSR Kadapa man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 348",
  "IPC 331",
  "IPC 201"
 ],
 "sentence": "5 years rigorous imprisonment (sentence imposed by the Supreme Court under IPC 330, retaining the 5-year term the Sessions Judge had imposed under IPC 331)",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 5,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/643373/the-state-of-andhra-pradesh-appellant-hash-n-venugopal-and-others-respondent/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Supreme Court of India (Criminal Appeal No.142/1961, judgment dated 09-05-1963 recording sessions-court conviction; AIR 1964 SC 33)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/643373/the-state-of-andhra-pradesh-appellant-hash-n-venugopal-and-others-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Per the Supreme Court judgment of 09-05-1963, Head Constable of Vempalli police station (Cuddapah district) was among three policemen convicted by the Sessions Judge, Anantapur Division, for confining and beating a suspect arrested on 06-01-1957. The trial court convicted under IPC 348, 331 and 201/109 with 5 years RI; the AP High Court acquitted on appeal; the Supreme Court set aside the acquittal in part, convicted all three under IPC 330 and sentenced each to 5 years RI. Exact trial conviction date is not stated in the accessed extract.",
 "court_quote": "Accordingly, we convict the respondents under s. 330 of the Indian Penal Code and we sentence each of them to five years' rigorous imprisonment.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-32",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-32-003": "wrong_facts"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w3-32-003:appeal_status"
  ]
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-25",
 "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": "t2w3-32-003=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: the Supreme Court's 9 May 1963 date is no longer presented as the trial conviction date; victim's name removed from the title and summary."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "Sessions trial, Sessions Judge Anantapur Division (State vs [name withheld] & Ors.); Criminal Appeal (SC) No.142/1961, decided 09-05-1963 (AIR 1964 SC 33)",
 "conviction_date_note": "between the January 1957 incident and the 1961 appeal to the Supreme Court; the Supreme Court itself convicted under IPC 330 on 9 May 1963",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}