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 "case_id": "t2w4-04-001",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T19:33:42Z",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC reversed Sharma's 2013 acquittal and convicted him on 19-03-2024; life term (SC appeal pending, interim relief).",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai Suburban",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Bombay High Court, Appellate Side (Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Gauri Godse) — conviction entered 19-03-2024 reversing acquittal dated 12-07-2013 by Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, City Civil & Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Sessions Case No. 317/2010)",
 "case_title": "Mumbai Suburban Man & Ors. v. [name withheld] of Maharashtra & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 854 of 2013 and 350 of 2015 (with connected appeals)",
 "conviction_date": "2024-03-19",
 "conviction_year": 2024,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2006-11-11",
 "incident_year": 2006,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "raw_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Inspector (encounter specialist; D.N. Nagar Police Station, Mumbai at the time)",
   "unit": "Mumbai Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Inspector (encounter specialist; D.N. Nagar Police Station, Mumbai at the time), Mumbai Police",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai Suburban man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 120B r/w 364",
  "IPC 120B r/w 365",
  "IPC 120B r/w 368",
  "IPC 368",
  "IPC 120B r/w 302",
  "IPC 364 r/w 109 r/w 120B",
  "IPC 365 r/w 109 r/w 120B",
  "IPC 344 r/w 34",
  "IPC 302 r/w 34",
  "IPC 201 r/w 109 r/w 120B",
  "IPC 119"
 ],
 "sentence": "Imprisonment for life on the murder/kidnapping counts (120B r/w 364; 120B r/w 302; 364 r/w 109 r/w 120B; 302 r/w 34) + 7 years RI on the abduction counts + 3 years RI on the remaining counts; all substantive sentences concurrent; surrender before the appropriate court within three weeks",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.barandbench.com/amp/story/news/supreme-court-grants-interim-relief-convicted-former-cop-pradeep-sharma-fake-encounter-case",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Bombay High Court",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ordjud-1602245.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/supreme-court-grants-interim-relief-convicted-former-cop-pradeep-sharma-fake-encounter-case",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/bombay-high-court/bombay-high-court-mumbai-police-encounter-specialist-pradeep-sharma-acquittal-fake-encounter-case-lakhan-bhaiya-252769",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/nitin-gorakhnath-sartape-v-the-state-of-maharashtra-2024bhc-as13217-db-bombay-fake-encounter-policeman-life-imprisonment-1527001"
 ],
 "summary": "On 19 March 2024 the Bombay High Court (Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Gauri Godse) quashed the 12 July 2013 acquittal of encounter specialist [name withheld] by the Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, City Civil and Sessions Court, Greater Bombay (Sessions Case No. 317/2010) and convicted him for the abduction and staged-encounter murder of a Mumbai Suburban man at Versova on 11 November 2006, imposing life imprisonment on the murder counts with all sentences concurrent and directing surrender within three weeks. The court held the prosecution had proved the formation of Sharma's police squad, the wrongful confinement and criminal abduction of the victim, and the fake encounter. The life terms of the 13 other (mostly police) convicts from the 2013 trial were upheld in the same judgment and are covered by sibling rows; Sharma's 2024 conviction on the [name withheld]/complainant appeals against his acquittal is a distinct in-band guilty finding. Sharma appealed to the Supreme Court ([name withheld] vs [name withheld] of Maharashtra), which granted him interim relief while refusing to suspend the conviction for contesting assembly elections; appeal therefore pending.",
 "court_quote": "extent that it acquits OA1- [name withheld], is quashed and set-aside and the respondent (OA1) in Criminal Appeal No. 854/2013 and Criminal Appeal No. 350/2015, is convicted and sentenced as under",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w4-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w4-04-001": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing",
 "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": "t2w4-04-001=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "Mumbai Suburban Man & Ors. v. [name withheld] of Maharashtra & Ors. ([name withheld] fake-encounter appeals; Criminal Appeal Nos. 854/2013 and 350/2015 against acquittal; citation [2024]BHC-AS:13217-DB)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}