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 "record_id": "CW-1976-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0440",
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 "display_title": "Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat",
 "display_title_redacted": "Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Surendranagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Zinzuwada",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Zinzuwada",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 250 of 1971",
 "citation": "(1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497",
 "judges": [
  "R. S. Sarkaria",
  "P. N. Shingal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1976-04-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1976,
 "incident_date": "1968-07-11",
 "incident_year": 1968,
 "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) r/w s.5(1)(d)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable (Jamadar)",
   "unit": "Police Station Zinzuwada, Gujarat Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "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 (Jamadar), Police Station Zinzuwada, Gujarat Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Zinzuwada man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1464524/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed Head Constable's appeal, upholding his conviction by the Gujarat High Court under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, after the trial court had acquitted both accused. The Court accepted that a Zinzuwada man, produced at the police station on 11 July 1968 in an abduction-matter investigation, was threatened with handcuffing, lock-up and parading unless he paid, and that an anthracene-powder trap caught the appellant accepting Rs. 500 the next evening. It upheld the statutory presumption under Section 4(1) of the 1947 Act and rejected the objection under Section 537 CrPC 1898 to conviction under Section 161 simpliciter. The sentence of two years' rigorous imprisonment stands, with no separate sentence under Section 161, and the co-accused-Inspector's acquittal was left undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed Head Constable's appeal, upholding his conviction by the Gujarat High Court under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, after the trial court had acquitted both accused. The Court accepted that a Zinzuwada man, produced at the police station on 11 July 1968 in an abduction-matter investigation, was threatened with handcuffing, lock-up and parading unless he paid, and that an anthracene-powder trap caught the appellant accepting Rs. 500 the next evening. It upheld the statutory presumption under Section 4(1) of the 1947 Act and rejected the objection under Section 537 CrPC 1898 to conviction under Section 161 simpliciter. The sentence of two years' rigorous imprisonment stands, with no separate sentence under Section 161, and the co-accused-Inspector's acquittal was left undisturbed.",
 "court_quote": "For the foregoing reasons, the appeal fails and is dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; head constable's ss.161/5(2) conviction (via HC reversal) upheld.",
 "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"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1976-04-06",
   "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) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1464524/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "SWBRIBER-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}