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 "record_id": "CW-1955-0001",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1128",
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 "display_title": "The State v. Satara Police Police Patil",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State v. Satara Police Police Patil",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Satara",
 "district_at_time": "North Satara",
 "city_town": "Satara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Patil, North Satara",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The State v. Satara Police Police Patil",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1164 of 1955",
 "citation": "(1956) 58 BomLR 355",
 "judges": [
  "Vyas",
  "Shah"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1955-12-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1955,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "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_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 161"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Patil",
   "unit": "North Satara",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Patil, North Satara"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Satara resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Satara resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 0.5,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/790522/the-state-vs-shamrao-navji-patil/",
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  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/829935/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Police Patil Shamrao Patil demanded and received Rs.25 for issuing a solvency certificate for use in criminal proceedings. The Special Judge, North Satara, accepted the payment was proved but acquitted on the ground that issuing the certificate was no part of a Police Patil's duty and hence no official act. The High Court held an official act under IPC s.161 need only be done in official capacity, not be an obligatory duty, and issuing the certificate as Patil qualified. It allowed the State appeal, convicted the accused under s.161 IPC, and sentenced him to six months' rigorous imprisonment with an arrest warrant.",
 "summary_verified": "Police Patil Shamrao Patil demanded and received Rs.25 for issuing a solvency certificate for use in criminal proceedings. The Special Judge, North Satara, accepted the payment was proved but acquitted on the ground that issuing the certificate was no part of a Police Patil's duty and hence no official act. The High Court held an official act under IPC s.161 need only be done in official capacity, not be an obligatory duty, and issuing the certificate as Patil qualified. It allowed the State appeal, convicted the accused under s.161 IPC, and sentenced him to six months' rigorous imprisonment with an arrest warrant.",
 "court_quote": "Having regard to the evidence, we convict the accused of an offence under s. 161 of the Indian Penal Code and direct that the accused do suffer rigorous imprisonment for six months.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC judgment verified; Police Patil acquittal reversed and bribery conviction entered (conviction_by_hc).",
 "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": "1955-12-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(1956) 58 BomLR 355",
   "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)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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  {
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-19-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}