### Validation event (DRAFT) -- Delhi (2026-08-05)

**adjudication: MACHINE (registered rules); orchestrator countersign PENDING**

**Decider:** Delhi (NAMAMI `state_id`='10') -- decision floor: walk complete=True, reconciled=100.0% (distinct external_id 51704 vs partition-recorded total 51704, threshold 98.9%). Moved-in (rows predating the walk start) = 120 (walk start source: TaskRun id=8630 started_at (first non-probe harvest_scriptome_namami run for state_id='10')). Values: `popper_v2_rung3_validation_delhi_values.{json,md}` (30 instruments run; frozen queries verbatim; 5-way batched/standalone equivalence check identical).

**Machine verdicts:**

- **SURVIVES-LEG (21):** r3-b1-01, r3-b1-08, r3-b1-12, r3-b1-14, r3-b1-15, r3-b1-16, r3-b1-19, r3-b1-21, r3-b1-23, r3-b1-24, r3-b1-25, r3-b1-26, r3-b1-27, r3-b1-29, r3-b1-30, r3-b1-31, r3-b1-32, r3-b1-34, r3-b1-35, r3-b1-36, r3-b1-40
- **KILL-CANDIDATE (5):** r3-b1-02, r3-b1-11, r3-b1-13, r3-b1-20, r3-b1-38
- **REQUIRES-RE-DERIVATION (3):** r3-b1-10, r3-b1-17, r3-b1-37
- **CONTEXT-ONLY (1):** r3-b1-33

**KILL-CANDIDATE detail (graveyard furniture, machine-drafted):**

- **r3-b1-02** -- No single holding institution accounts for >=40% of any source's/state's attributed holdings. Measured: {"institution": "Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology", "n": 26614, "pct": 51.473773789261955}. Band: ceiling 40% (NAMAMI states and clean comparators alike).
- **r3-b1-11** -- No single holding institution accounts for >=40% of any complete NAMAMI state's attributed holdings. Measured: {"institution": null, "n": 26614, "pct": 51.473773789261955}. Band: ceiling 40%.
- **r3-b1-13** -- [CONDITIONAL] Top-12-institution HHI-lite index never exceeds 1,500 (0-10,000 scale) for any complete state. Measured: {"hhi12": 2832.4685025226854}. Band: ceiling 1500.
- **r3-b1-20** -- Every complete state's records span >=6 distinct non-blank script_group values. Measured: {"distinct_script_groups": 5}. Band: floor 6.
- **r3-b1-38** -- tradition='islamic' share is bimodal: >10% in UP and Bihar, <2% elsewhere (J&K flagged as the live at-risk sub-test, not queried here). Measured: {"islamic_n": 4492, "total": 51704, "pct": 8.687915828562588}. Band: >10% in {UP, Bihar} AND <2% elsewhere.

**REQUIRES-RE-DERIVATION detail** (registration §4: near-threshold verdicts require independent re-derivation by a second lane before adjudication):

- **r3-b1-10** -- relative distance 1.4295420756251014e-05 of the band edge. Band: ceiling 92%.
- **r3-b1-17** -- relative distance 0.09560754701269447 of the band edge. Band: [-3.0, -0.3].
- **r3-b1-37** -- relative distance 0.1 of the band edge. Band: [30, 160].

**Skipped:**

- r3-b1-03: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-04: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-05: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-06: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-07: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-09: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-18: no per-state clause (cross-source/whole-corpus comparator, or tail-UT-only)
- r3-b1-28: already holdout-killed (registration §7 Validation event 2 -- Assam (2026-08-05)); registration §7 events 1-2

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This entry is a MACHINE-GENERATED DRAFT produced by `run_popper_validation`. It has not been reviewed and has NOT been appended to the registration file. An orchestrator must read it, apply the V1 §VII graveyard-furniture discipline to any KILL-CANDIDATE, and countersign (or amend) before any of this becomes part of the append-only registration §7 record.
