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 "case_id": "t2w3-37-005",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "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: SC altered s.302 life term to s.304-I with 10yr; subcategory corrected.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Dhemaji",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Judge, Dhemaji",
 "case_title": "State vs Dhemaji Police police personnel (exact rank not stated in Supreme Court judgment)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 107 of 2007 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 5338 of 2006)",
 "conviction_date": "2007-01-24",
 "conviction_year": 2007,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2000-09-26",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "raw_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "police personnel (exact rank not stated in Supreme Court judgment)",
   "unit": "Jonai Police Station, Dhemaji, Assam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "police personnel (exact rank not stated in Supreme Court judgment), Jonai Police Station, Dhemaji, Assam",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Dhemaji resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 304 Part-I"
 ],
 "sentence": "Trial: life imprisonment under Section 302 IPC (Gauhati HC affirmed). Supreme Court (24.01.2007): offence is culpable homicide not amounting to murder; conviction altered to 304 Part-I IPC with 10-year custodial sentence.",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 10,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Supreme Court of India (Crl. Appeal No. 107/2007, Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia JJ., 24.01.2007; official SCI copy)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/28513.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "Per the Supreme Court (24.01.2007), [name withheld], a police personnel of Jonai PS, assaulted truck driver [name withheld] at Ruksin Gate around 11 p.m. on 26.09.2000; the driver died on 29.09.2000 while being taken to hospital. The Sessions Judge, Dhemaji convicted him under Section 302 IPC and awarded life imprisonment, which the Gauhati High Court affirmed. The Supreme Court altered the conviction to 304 Part-I IPC with a 10-year custodial sentence. The trial conviction date and sessions case number are not stated in the judgment (trial pre-dates SLP 5338/2006).",
 "court_quote": "the inevitable conclusion is that the case at hand is not covered under Section 302 IPC and on the other hand the case is covered under Section 304 Part I IPC.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-37",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-37-005": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "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": "t2w3-37-005=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "State of Assam vs Dhemaji Police police personnel (exact rank not stated in Supreme Court judgment)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}