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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka",
 "display_title_redacted": "Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Chikkamagaluru",
 "district_at_time": "Chickmagalur",
 "city_town": "Birur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Birur Police Station (later Sringeri Police Station)",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 11937 of 1978",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rama Jois"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1980-01-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1980,
 "incident_date": "1974-04-04",
 "incident_year": 1974,
 "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": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable (HC 81)",
   "unit": "Birur Police Station",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable (HC 81), Birur Police Station"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Birur resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Birur resident"
  }
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 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 14 January 1980) dismissed the writ of Head Constable and upheld his dismissal for bribery. The court recorded that in April 1974, while posted at Birur police station, he demanded Rs 3,000 and accepted Rs 1,000 to release two lock-up detainees on bail. It rejected his procedural challenges to the departmental enquiry and held the concurrent findings rested on clear evidence that a writ court cannot re-appreciate. The dismissal as confirmed in appeal and revision was sustained.",
 "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 14 January 1980) dismissed the writ of Head Constable and upheld his dismissal for bribery. The court recorded that in April 1974, while posted at Birur police station, he demanded Rs 3,000 and accepted Rs 1,000 to release two lock-up detainees on bail. It rejected his procedural challenges to the departmental enquiry and held the concurrent findings rested on clear evidence that a writ court cannot re-appreciate. The dismissal as confirmed in appeal and revision was sustained.",
 "court_quote": "the petitioner, who was a Head Constable in the Police Department of the State Government, has prayed for quashing the order imposing the penalty of dismissal from service against him",
 "court_quote_para": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal of bribe-taking head constable upheld (full text mirror-blocked; corroborated via indexed snippets).",
 "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": "1980-01-14",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "W.P. No. 11937 of 1978",
   "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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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-25-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}