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 "record_id": "CW-1997-0016",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1098",
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 "display_title": "Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police personnel",
 "display_title_redacted": "Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police personnel",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police personnel",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 4588 of 1995",
 "citation": "(1998) 9 SCC 490",
 "judges": [
  "V. N. Khare",
  "K. Venkataswami"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1997-08-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1997,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "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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   "rank": null,
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Tamil Nadu Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police personnel, Tamil Nadu Police"
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
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  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1742573/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Supreme Court on 5 August 1997 set aside the Tribunal order and restored the dismissal order passed by the disciplinary authority against [name withheld] (bribe demand/acceptance charge), holding the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction by reappreciating evidence; the appellate authority's reduction to compulsory retirement does not survive the restoration of the disciplinary authority's dismissal order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 5 August 1997 set aside the Tribunal order and restored the dismissal order passed by the disciplinary authority against [name withheld] (bribe demand/acceptance charge), holding the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction by reappreciating evidence; the appellate authority's reduction to compulsory retirement does not survive the restoration of the disciplinary authority's dismissal order.",
 "court_quote": "We find from the order of the disciplinary authority the charge was that the respondent had demanded and accepted the bribe, but the only discrepancy pointed out in the evidence was regarding the date, time and amount. This has been noticed by the disciplinary authority and it has given acceptable reasons for ignoring those discrepancies.",
 "court_quote_para": "3",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC restored compulsory retirement; Tribunal could not re-appreciate bribe evidence.",
 "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": "1997-08-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(1998) 9 SCC 490",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
 ],
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1742573/",
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}