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 "record_id": "CW-1954-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0073",
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 "display_title": "Kandra Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and others vs The State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kandra Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and others vs The State",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Seraikela-Kharsawan",
 "district_at_time": "Singhbhum",
 "city_town": "Kandra",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kandra Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and others vs The State",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 365 and 376 of 1953",
 "citation": "AIR 1955 Pat 317",
 "judges": [
  "Kamla Sahai"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1954-08-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1954,
 "incident_date": "1952-10-10",
 "incident_year": 1952,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 161",
  "IPC 161/109"
 ],
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": "yes",
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 28,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173056/",
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  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/746831/nil-madhab-patnaik-and-another-vs-the-state/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 10 October 1952, the ASI and constable of Kandra outpost threatened about 28 villagers of Bikaneepur with prosecution over a witchcraft-related sacrifice and extracted illegal gratification at Rs.2/8 per head, settled after haggling down from Rs.500. The court believed the prosecution witnesses and held [name withheld] received illegal gratification from several persons, rejecting sanction and evidentiary objections. It dismissed [name withheld]'s appeal (1 year RI under Section 161 IPC) and dismissed Yasin Khan's appeal with his conviction altered to abetment under Section 161/109 IPC, maintaining his 6-month sentence.",
 "summary_verified": "On 10 October 1952, the ASI and constable of Kandra outpost threatened about 28 villagers of Bikaneepur with prosecution over a witchcraft-related sacrifice and extracted illegal gratification at Rs.2/8 per head, settled after haggling down from Rs.500. The court believed the prosecution witnesses and held [name withheld] received illegal gratification from several persons, rejecting sanction and evidentiary objections. It dismissed [name withheld]'s appeal (1 year RI under Section 161 IPC) and dismissed Yasin Khan's appeal with his conviction altered to abetment under Section 161/109 IPC, maintaining his 6-month sentence.",
 "court_quote": "The result is that Criminal Appeal No. 365 filed by appellant [name withheld] is dismissed and Criminal Appeal No. 376 filed by appellant Yasin Khan is dismissed with the modification that his conviction is altered to one u/s 161/109, Penal Code.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Single-judge judgment verified; ASI + constable bribery convictions sustained (1 yr / 6 mo RI).",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Other",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": null,
   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Patna High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Patna High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "AIR 1955 Pat 317",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1954-08-12",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "AIR 1955 Pat 317",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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 record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP14-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}