{
 "case_id": "t2w4-22-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w4-22-002": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-095",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T19:31:48Z",
 "verdict_note": "CBI index + Kerala HC order corroborate; exact verdict date and 3 co-convicts' names unverified.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Ernakulam",
 "court": "Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam",
 "court_level": "magistrate",
 "trial_court_name": "Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam (C.C. No.513 of 1995; CBI case)",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Kerala Police Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction) and others",
 "case_number": "C.C. No.513/1995 (RC 28/92, CBI/SPE Cochin)",
 "conviction_date": "2009-01",
 "conviction_year": 2009,
 "date_precision": "month",
 "incident_date": "1988-02-01",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction)",
   "unit": "Kerala Police (SP, Kannur at the time of offence)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction), Kerala Police (SP, Kannur at the time of offence)",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ernakulam resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 323",
  "IPC 342",
  "IPC 357",
  "IPC 465",
  "IPC 201 r/w IPC 120B"
 ],
 "sentence": "6 months imprisonment (per contemporaneous news report of the verdict; exact section-wise break-up not confirmed)",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.5,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": "Central Bureau of Investigation (official press-release index, archived) + Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam",
 "primary_source_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20090115000000/http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pressrelease.php",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/167527431/",
  "https://web.archive.org/web/20091229203540id_/http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pressrelease.php"
 ],
 "summary": "The CBI's official press-release index for January 2009 records that an 'Addl. DGP, Kerala and three other police officials' were 'sentenced [to] six months imprisonment in a CBI case' (release dated 13 January 2009). Per the Kerala High Court's 2007 order in the same prosecution (C.C. No.513/1995 before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam, arising from CBI RC 28/92), the lead accused is [name withheld], then SP Kannur and by trial ADGP, facing charges including IPC ss.323, 342, 357, 465 and 201 r/w 120-B for the 1988 custodial torture of an Ernakulam resident, editor/printer/publisher of the Kannur evening daily Sudinam, who had published reports against the police. A contemporaneous news report records that CJM Ernakulam (P.D. Soman) convicted the officers on Monday 12 January 2009 with six months jail and Rs.25,000 fine; the names of the three other convicted officials were not stated in the sources accessed, and no appeal outcome is known.",
 "court_quote": "Addl. DGP, Kerala and three other police officials sentenced six month's imprisonment in a CBI case",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w4-22",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w4-22-002": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "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": "t2w4-22-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Kerala Police Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}