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 "record_id": "CW-1955-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0946",
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 "display_title": "Ranaghat Police Constable vs The State",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ranaghat Police Constable vs The State",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Nadia",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ranaghat",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Ranaghat Government Railway Police Station",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ranaghat Police Constable vs The State",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "AIR 1956 Cal 116",
 "judges": [
  "Debabrata Mookerjee"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1955-12-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1955,
 "incident_date": "1954-04-25",
 "incident_year": 1954,
 "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"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Ranaghat Government Railway Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Ranaghat Government Railway Police Station"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ranaghat man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "fine",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/90300/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095ee0e4b01497112c8dde"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 25 April 1954 constable, on duty on Ranaghat station platform, accused traveller a Ranaghat man of blackmarketing two mats, marched him toward the GRP station, demanded money and took his purse containing Rs. 5. A Ranaghat man immediately complained to nearby witnesses, identified the constable on the platform, and lodged the FIR at the GRP station. The Special Court, Nadia convicted the constable under Section 161 IPC and fined him Rs. 100. The court believed the eyewitnesses, held the ingredients of Section 161 proved, rejected the extortion-only argument and the challenge to the Special Court trial, affirmed the conviction and retained the fine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 25 April 1954 constable, on duty on Ranaghat station platform, accused traveller a Ranaghat man of blackmarketing two mats, marched him toward the GRP station, demanded money and took his purse containing Rs. 5. A Ranaghat man immediately complained to nearby witnesses, identified the constable on the platform, and lodged the FIR at the GRP station. The Special Court, Nadia convicted the constable under Section 161 IPC and fined him Rs. 100. The court believed the eyewitnesses, held the ingredients of Section 161 proved, rejected the extortion-only argument and the challenge to the Special Court trial, affirmed the conviction and retained the fine.",
 "court_quote": "Taking the entire evidence as a whole I think there is no ground for interference with the conviction of the appellant.",
 "court_quote_para": "12",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "GRP constable's s.161 bribery conviction affirmed; Rs.5 gratification proved by eyewitnesses.",
 "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 Calcutta High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "AIR 1956 Cal 116",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1955-12-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "AIR 1956 Cal 116",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-13-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}