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 "case_id": "t2w3-37-004",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-37-004": {
   "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: murder conviction altered to s.304-I with 10yr RI; [name withheld] set to Delhi, subcategory corrected.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Central Delhi",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Delhi (Darya Ganj PS case; Crl.A. 272/2017 before Delhi High Court)",
 "case_title": "State vs Sikkim Police Constable",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. 272/2017",
 "conviction_date": "2015-08-24",
 "conviction_year": 2015,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2007-03-11",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "other",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "D-Company, IRB, 1st Battalion, Sikkim Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, D-Company, IRB, 1st Battalion, Sikkim Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Central Delhi resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part-I",
  "IPC 201",
  "IPC 182"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial (order 23.12.2015): life imprisonment (302) + 2 years RI (201) + 6 months SI (182). On appeal (Delhi HC 24.03.2018): conviction altered to 304 Part-I IPC, sentence 10 years RI with fine.",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Delhi High Court (Crl.A. 272/2017, decided 24.03.2018, Sunil Gaur and A.K. Chawla JJ.)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75604236/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/irb-sikkim-police-constable-guns-down-5-colleagues-hc-reduces-sentence-to-10-yrs-jail-111320.html"
 ],
 "summary": "Per the Delhi High Court (judgment 24.03.2018 in Crl.A. 272/2017), IRB Constable shot dead five colleagues at the Dena Bank chest, Golcha Cinema, Delhi on 11.03.2007. The trial court convicted him on 24.08.2015 under Sections 302/201/182 IPC and awarded life imprisonment (sentence order 23.12.2015). The High Court held colleagues had attempted to sodomise him but that he reacted excessively; it altered the conviction to Section 304 Part-I IPC and reduced the sentence to 10 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine.",
 "court_quote": "appellant had, in a fit of anger, reacted violently by indiscriminately firing at his five colleagues, who had attempted to sodomize appellant.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-37",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-37-004": "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": "t2w3-37-004=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2015-08-24); the previous value (2018-03-24) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Sikkim Police Constable",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2018-03-24",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}