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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0012",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0211",
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 "display_title": "Kerala Police Police Constable vs Superintendent of Police and Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Kerala Police Police Constable vs Superintendent of Police and Ors.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kerala Police",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Kerala Police Police Constable vs Superintendent of Police and Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.A. Nos. 1276 & 1306 of 2003",
 "citation": "(2003) 12 KL CK 0018",
 "judges": [
  "Jawahar Lal Gupta",
  "M. Ramachandran"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-12-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "1988-08-14",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "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",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Article 226",
  "Constitution of India Article 309",
  "Constitution of India Article 311",
  "Kerala Police Act 1960 s.6",
  "Kerala Police Departmental Inquiries, Punishment and Appeal Rules 1958 Rule 8",
  "Kerala Civil Services (Vigilance Tribunal) Rules 1960"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Kerala Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:unclear"
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   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.22,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.87,
   "key2_gpt": null,
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   "display": "Police Constable, Kerala Police"
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   "name": null,
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   "role": "held_liable",
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   ],
   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Kerala Police"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kerala man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/559449/premachandran-mv-vs-superintendent-of-police-and-others/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Two Kerala police constables on patrol duty detained a Kerala man, who was carrying a large sum of money, and released him after extorting and accepting a bribe of Rs. 20,000 each. Following a departmental enquiry by the Vigilance Tribunal, both constables were ordered to be removed from service. The Kerala High Court dismissed their writ petitions and subsequent writ appeals, rejecting procedural objections and ruling that corruption by law enforcers warranted dismissal.",
 "summary_verified": "Two Kerala police constables on patrol duty detained a Kerala man, who was carrying a large sum of money, and released him after extorting and accepting a bribe of Rs. 20,000 each. Following a departmental enquiry by the Vigilance Tribunal, both constables were ordered to be removed from service. The Kerala High Court dismissed their writ petitions and subsequent writ appeals, rejecting procedural objections and ruling that corruption by law enforcers warranted dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "The Appellants who were custodians of law had themselves committed acts of corruption. Their removal from service was the only way they deserved to be treated.",
 "court_quote_para": "23",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala HC Division Bench dismissed writ appeals of two police constables, upholding their removal from service for accepting bribes to release a detainee.",
 "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": "2003-12-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2003) 12 KL CK 0018",
   "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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 "merged_case_id": "KERALA-011",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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}