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 "case_id": "t2w3-36-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-36-002": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-089 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:27:25Z",
 "verdict_note": "Confirmed: RPF constable's 302/307 conviction upheld, death commuted to 25yr RI; subcategory corrected murder->other.",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Ramgarh",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "District & Additional Sessions Judge-I, Ramgarh (Sessions Trial No. 13 of 2020)",
 "case_title": "State of Jharkhand vs Railway Protection Force Constable",
 "case_number": "Death Reference No. 4 of 2023 with Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 588 of 2023",
 "conviction_date": "2024-09-19",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2019-08-17",
 "incident_year": 2019,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Railway Protection Force (RPF) Post, Barkakana, Ramgarh",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Railway Protection Force (RPF) Post, Barkakana, Ramgarh",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ramgarh man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Ramgarh woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Ramgarh woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ramgarh resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Ramgarh woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial (16-03-2023): death sentence. On appeal (19-09-2024): death commuted to 25 years RI without remission (s.302) plus 10 years RI (s.307), concurrent; conviction under s.27 Arms Act set aside",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 25,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display-1-563724.pdf",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Jharkhand High Court (Death Reference No. 4 of 2023 with Crl. Appeal (DB) No. 588 of 2023, Justices Ananda Sen & Gautam Kumar Choudhary, pronounced 19-09-2024, recording trial-court conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display-1-563724.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-firing-unlicensed-prohibited-arms-invites-conviction-under-section-27-arms-act-not-service-pistol-271366"
 ],
 "summary": "Per the Jharkhand High Court judgment of 19-09-2024, RPF Constable of RPF Post Barkakana was convicted by the District & Additional Sessions Judge-I, Ramgarh (Sessions Trial No. 13 of 2020, judgment 13-03-2023) for opening indiscriminate fire with his service pistol on his neighbour-milk supplier's family at about 8 p.m. on 17-08-2019 when asked to pay milk dues, killing the informant's father, mother and [name withheld] sister and critically injuring the informant and another sister. The trial court imposed the death sentence (order 16-03-2023). The High Court upheld the ss.302/307 IPC convictions but, finding the offence a spur-of-the-moment act without preplanning, commuted death to 25 years RI without remission (plus 10 years RI for s.307, concurrent) and set aside the s.27 Arms Act conviction since a service pistol was used.",
 "court_quote": "Appellant went on the killing spree when due for milk supplied was asked for.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-36",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-36-002": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "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": "t2w3-36-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "Sessions Trial No. 13 of 2020; State vs [name withheld] (Death Reference No. 4 of 2023 with Crl. Appeal (DB) No. 588 of 2023)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}