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 "case_id": "t2w4-41-001",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T19:36:25+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "PTI trial report confirms Special Judge (SC/ST Act) Janjgir-Champa convicted SHO, 2 constables and a home guard on 26.02.2019 under IPC 302/34 (life + Rs.2,000 fine) for the 17.09.2016 Mulmula custodial death; CG HC (2025:CGHC:34873-DB, July 2025) altered conviction to 304-II/34 with 10yr RI each.",
 "state": "Chhattisgarh",
 "district": "Janjgir-Champa",
 "court": "Special Court (SC/ST Act), Janjgir-Champa",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Court, Janjgir-Champa district (Mulmula PS case; exact court designation not stated in report)",
 "case_title": "State v. Chhattisgarh Police Station House Officer",
 "case_number": "Trial arising from FIR dated 19.09.2016, PS Mulmula; appeal CRA Nos. 611/2019, 705/2019, 681/2019, 609/2019 and Acq.A. 676/2019 (Chhattisgarh HC)",
 "conviction_date": "2019-02-26",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2016-09-17",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Station House Officer",
   "unit": "PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Station House Officer, PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Home Guard",
   "unit": "PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Home Guard, PS Mulmula, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 35,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Janjgir-Champa man, age 35"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302 r/w IPC 34"
 ],
 "sentence": "Life imprisonment each at trial; on appeal (Division Bench Justices Sanjay K. Agrawal and [name withheld], July 2025) altered to 10 years rigorous imprisonment each",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": "Chhattisgarh High Court (via 24Law report of appeal judgment) corroborating trial-court conviction",
 "primary_source_url": "https://24law.in/pdf/1753362711_3531-chhattisgarh-hc-re-state-of-chhattisgarh.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://24law.in/story/cruel-police-torture-led-to-custodial-death-chhattisgarh-high-court-calls-it-an-intolerable-betrayal",
  "https://chhattisgarhtopnews.com/sc-commission-notices-to-admn-on-custodial-death-of-dalit/",
  "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/life-sentence-for-four-cops-in-custodial-death-case-667948.html"
 ],
 "summary": "The trial court convicted SHO, constables and [name withheld] and home guard of PS Mulmula under IPC 302/34 and sentenced each to life imprisonment for the 17 September 2016 custodial death of a 35-year-old man, who was picked up drunk from the CSPDCL sub-station Nariyara, medically found injury-free, then brought dead to CHC Pamgarh with 26 external injuries. The Chhattisgarh High Court Division Bench in July 2025 held the death was culpable homicide not amounting to murder, substituted a conviction under IPC 304 Part II/34 with 10 years RI each, and affirmed the acquittal under the SC/ST Act for want of proof of [name withheld] knowledge.",
 "court_quote": "Deceased died homicidal death in police custody and it is a case of custodial death.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w4-41",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "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": "t2w4-41-001=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "sentence"
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Official source added: Chhattisgarh High Court judgment of 22.07.2025 in CRA No. 611/2019 and connected appeals (2025:CGHC:34873-DB; copy hosted by 24Law), arising from the Special Judge (Atrocities) Janjgir-Champa judgment of 26-2-2019; confirms conviction altered to Section 304 Part I and life sentences replaced by ten years' RI."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs Chhattisgarh Police Station House Officer",
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