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 "record_id": "CW-1979-0001",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0155",
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 "display_title": "Haryana Police Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan) vs State of Haryana",
 "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan) vs State of Haryana",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Ambala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ambala",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Solan (SHO); trap laid at Ambala",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Haryana Police Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan) vs State of Haryana",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 214 of 1974",
 "citation": "AIR 1979 SC 1820; (1980) 1 SCC 124",
 "judges": [
  "S. Murtaza Fazal Ali",
  "A. D. Koshal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1979-02-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1979,
 "incident_date": "1969-12-19",
 "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": [
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)",
  "IPC 161"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan)",
   "unit": "Haryana 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": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.04,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.98,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (in charge of Police Station, Solan), Haryana Police"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ambala 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/1560370/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector, in charge of a police station investigating a Bank of Patiala godown theft reported by an Ambala man, who demanded Rs 3,000 to help the complainant. Haryana Vigilance trapped him at Ambala on 19 December 1969, recovering the marked currency notes with the hand-wash turning red. The Court held the independent witnesses unshaken and refused leniency, upholding one year's RI with a Rs 2,000 fine under Section 5(2) of the 1947 PC Act and one year's RI under Section 161 IPC, concurrent. (Posting stated as PS Solan; trap and prosecution at Ambala, Haryana.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector, in charge of a police station investigating a Bank of Patiala godown theft reported by an Ambala man, who demanded Rs 3,000 to help the complainant. Haryana Vigilance trapped him at Ambala on 19 December 1969, recovering the marked currency notes with the hand-wash turning red. The Court held the independent witnesses unshaken and refused leniency, upholding one year's RI with a Rs 2,000 fine under Section 5(2) of the 1947 PC Act and one year's RI under Section 161 IPC, concurrent. (Posting stated as PS Solan; trap and prosecution at Ambala, Haryana.)",
 "court_quote": "This fact, however, has been proved by the evidence of independent witnesses and accepted by two courts and we find ourselves unable to differ with the view taken by them. Moreover, the appellant was clever Police Officer and wanted to take all possible precautions.",
 "court_quote_para": "3",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified: SHO's Rs 3,000 bribe conviction upheld (1 yr RI Sec 5(2) PC Act + 1 yr Sec 161); appeal dismissed.",
 "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": "AIR 1979 SC 1820; (1980) 1 SCC 124",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "1979-02-14",
   "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": "AIR 1979 SC 1820; (1980) 1 SCC 124",
   "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/1560370/",
   "link_checked": null
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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