{
 "record_id": "CW-1976-0001",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0350",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable v. State (Delhi Administration)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Head Constable v. State (Delhi Administration)",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Central Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Lahori Gate Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable v. State (Delhi Administration)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 209 of 1971",
 "citation": "(1976) 1 SCC 644; AIR 1976 SC 449",
 "judges": [
  "P. K. Goswami",
  "P. N. Shingal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1976-01-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1976,
 "incident_date": "1969-04-08",
 "incident_year": 1969,
 "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",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.04,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Delhi man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/540986/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1976/january/maha-singh-vs-state-insc-2-8-january-1976-2"
 ],
 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed Criminal Appeal 209 of 1971 and upheld the conviction of Head Constable of Lahori Gate police station under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(2)/5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947, already affirmed by the Delhi High Court. The Court found complainant [name withheld], an unlicensed hawker, complained on 7 April 1969 that the Head Constable demanded Rs 10 for not challaning his brother and Rs 50 for future immunity, and an Anti-Corruption trap caught him with the money passing into his pocket. It held trap witnesses are neither accomplices nor interested per se and rejected the charge-prejudice and planting defences. The 1-year RI sentences with Rs 100 fine were maintained and surrender directed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed Criminal Appeal 209 of 1971 and upheld the conviction of Head Constable of Lahori Gate police station under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(2)/5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947, already affirmed by the Delhi High Court. The Court found complainant [name withheld], an unlicensed hawker, complained on 7 April 1969 that the Head Constable demanded Rs 10 for not challaning his brother and Rs 50 for future immunity, and an Anti-Corruption trap caught him with the money passing into his pocket. It held trap witnesses are neither accomplices nor interested per se and rejected the charge-prejudice and planting defences. The 1-year RI sentences with Rs 100 fine were maintained and surrender directed.",
 "court_quote": "The High Court and the trial court cannot, therefore, be said to have made any gross error of law in appreciating the evidence and coming to the conclusion that the charges against the accused were fully established.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified via mirror (primary 429); Head Constable bribery conviction upheld, surrender directed.",
 "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 Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(1976) 1 SCC 644; AIR 1976 SC 449",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1976-01-08",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(1976) 1 SCC 644; AIR 1976 SC 449",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/540986/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1976/january/maha-singh-vs-state-insc-2-8-january-1976-2",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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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": "SWBRIBER-016",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}