{
 "case_id": "t2w3-37-001",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-37-001": {
   "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: 3-yr NDPS conviction subsists (sentence only suspended); subcategory corrected to other.",
 "state": "Himachal Pradesh",
 "district": "Mandi",
 "court": "Himachal Pradesh High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Mandi (NDPS Court)",
 "case_title": "State vs Mandi Police Constable (No. 265)",
 "case_number": "CWP No. 6783 of 2026 with CWP No. 2077 of 2026",
 "conviction_date": "2024-11-08",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2016-02-25",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable (No. 265)",
   "unit": "4th Indian Reserve Battalion, Jangalberi (posted BSL Project Security, Sunder Nagar)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable (No. 265), 4th Indian Reserve Battalion, Jangalberi (posted BSL Project Security, Sunder Nagar)",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "NDPS Act 1985 s.20"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years imprisonment + Rs.25,000 fine",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Himachal Pradesh High Court (writ judgment recording trial-court conviction facts; CrA 659/2024 pending, sentence suspended 02.12.2024, conviction not stayed)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27966799/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Per the HP High Court writ judgment (CWP 6783/2026 with CWP 2077/2026, 2026:HHC:31438, decided 29.07.2026), Constable was convicted by the Special Judge, Mandi on 08.11.2024 under Section 20 NDPS Act in FIR 59/2016 (PS Balh; 1003 grams charas recovered) and sentenced to three years' imprisonment with Rs.25,000 fine. His criminal appeal (CrA 659/2024) is pending with only the sentence suspended; he was dismissed from service and his writ challenge failed.",
 "court_quote": "no stay has been granted on the conviction recorded by the Ld. Trial Court, which continues to subsist.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-37",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-37-001": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-06",
 "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": "t2w3-37-001=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-06",
   "scope": "Use the 8 November 2024 trial conviction date quoted in paragraph 20 of the High Court judgment, not the July 2026 writ date. Replace a name-bearing source filename with the same court judgment at a numeric URL.",
   "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27966799/",
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    "conviction_year",
    "date_precision",
    "primary_source_url",
    "secondary_sources"
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  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Mandi Police Constable (No. 265)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}