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 "record_id": "CW-2007-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0356",
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 "display_title": "P. Veeramuthu vs State by Inspector of Police, Vigilance",
 "display_title_redacted": "P. Veeramuthu vs State by Inspector of Police, Vigilance",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Salem",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mecheri",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mecheri Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "P. Veeramuthu vs State by Inspector of Police, Vigilance",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal against Spl. C.C. No. 98 of 1991 (Special Judge-cum-CJM, Salem)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A.C. Arumugaperumal Adityan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2007-04-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "1991-01-23",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "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 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "P. Veeramuthu",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Mecheri Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "P. Veeramuthu",
   "display": "P. Veeramuthu (Sub-Inspector)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Mecheri woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector P. Veeramuthu of Mecheri Police Station, Salem district, confirming his trap-case conviction for demanding and receiving Rs 500 from complainant [name withheld] on 23 January 1991 to initiate proceedings in Mecheri PS Crime No. 29 of 1991. Though the complainant turned hostile, the Court sustained the conviction on the trap witness and corroborating evidence, holding the prosecution had proved guilt under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. It held the accused liable to be punished under only one provision and modified the sentence to a single term of one year rigorous imprisonment under Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d), with the trial fine of Rs 1,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector P. Veeramuthu of Mecheri Police Station, Salem district, confirming his trap-case conviction for demanding and receiving Rs 500 from complainant [name withheld] on 23 January 1991 to initiate proceedings in Mecheri PS Crime No. 29 of 1991. Though the complainant turned hostile, the Court sustained the conviction on the trap witness and corroborating evidence, holding the prosecution had proved guilt under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. It held the accused liable to be punished under only one provision and modified the sentence to a single term of one year rigorous imprisonment under Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d), with the trial fine of Rs 1,000.",
 "court_quote": "In the result the appeal is dismissed confirming the Judgment of the learned Special Judge in Spl. C.C. No. 98 of 1991 on the file of Special Judge and First Additional District Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Salem. The accused is convicted under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.",
 "court_quote_para": "34",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Madras High Court dismissed appeal and confirmed PC Act conviction of SI P. Veeramuthu for Rs 500 trap bribe, sentencing him to a single term of one year RI.",
 "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 Madras High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal against Spl. C.C. No. 98 of 1991 (Special Judge-cum-CJM, Salem)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2007-04-13",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal against Spl. C.C. No. 98 of 1991 (Special Judge-cum-CJM, Salem)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157191328/",
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 "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-003",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}