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 "case_id": "t2w4-19-002",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
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   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-094",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T19:12:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "SC (2025 INSC 114, 28.01.2025) records Sessions Judge Dehradun conviction of HC on 06.09.2006 (302 r/w 34 + Arms Act, life), confirmed by Uttarakhand HC 27.12.2012; his SC appeal abated on death; relabelled subcategory->disproportionate_force.",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Dehradun",
 "court": "Court of Sessions Judge, Dehradun",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Judge, Dehradun",
 "case_title": "State v. Uttarakhand Police Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Sessions Trial No. 50/2005 (Case Crime No. 455/2004, PS Rishikesh)",
 "conviction_date": "2006-09-06",
 "conviction_year": 2006,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2004-11-15",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "raw_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Rishikesh, Uttarakhand Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Police Station Rishikesh, Uttarakhand Police",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Dehradun woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302 r/w 34",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.27(1)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Imprisonment for life",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/191647839/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Supreme Court of India (2025 INSC 114, recording Sessions Judge Dehradun conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/191647839/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://research.grhari.com/supreme-court-overturns-high-court-conviction-in-police-firing-case-surendra-singh-ors-vs-state-of-uttarakhand-2025-insc-114/",
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3242909-supreme-court-overturns-life-sentences-for-three-uttarakhand-policemen-in-2004-murder-case"
 ],
 "summary": "The Sessions Judge, Dehradun (S.T. No. 50/2005) convicted Head Constable of PS Rishikesh on 06.09.2006 for the 15.11.2004 shooting of woman co-passenger a Dehradun woman during a vehicle interception near the IDPL Gate on suspicion of liquor smuggling (Case Crime No. 455/2004), sentencing him to life imprisonment under s.302 r/w s.34 IPC and s.27(1) of the Arms Act while acquitting three constables. The Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital confirmed the conviction on 27.12.2012 (Crl. Appeals 217-218/2006); the convict's Supreme Court appeal abated on his death (2025 INSC 114, decided 28.01.2025), leaving the High Court confirmation standing.",
 "court_quote": "he had been convicted for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 27(1) of the Arms Act, 1959 and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w4-19",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w4-19-002": "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": "t2w4-19-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v [name withheld], Sessions Trial No. 50/2005 (Case Crime No. 455/2004, PS Rishikesh)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}