{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1207", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Magodi Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "display_title_redacted": "Magodi Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "state": "Gujarat", "district": "Gandhinagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Magodi", "police_station_or_unit": "Police station serving village Magodi, Taluka Gandhinagar", "court": "Gujarat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Magodi Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 959 of 1992 (Special Case No. 5 of 1987, Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural))", "citation": null, "judges": [ "C.K. Buch" ], "judgment_date": "2007-03-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1985-12-02", "incident_year": 1985, "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(1)(d)", "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)", "IPC 151" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Dabhoda Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Dabhoda Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Magodi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.08, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/436040/natwarlal-mohanlal-zala-appellant-hash-state-of-gujarat-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1433203/" ], "summary": "The Gujarat High Court (C.K. Buch, J.) on 29 March 2007 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 959 of 1992, confirming the corruption conviction of Police Constable by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural) (1 September 1992). The court found no perversity in the finding that, after a field-quarrel complaint on 1 December 1985, he demanded Rs. 1,000 from villager a Magodi man to avoid arresting his brothers and accepted Rs. 600 at the panchayat office/tea-stall on 2 December 1985, recovered in an ACB trap. Since the 1947 Act prescribed no minimum sentence and the constable faced dismissal and years of agony, it reduced the substantive sentence from six months to one month rigorous imprisonment, confirming the Rs. 700 fine. It directed him to surrender within six weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court (C.K. Buch, J.) on 29 March 2007 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 959 of 1992, confirming the corruption conviction of Police Constable by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural) (1 September 1992). The court found no perversity in the finding that, after a field-quarrel complaint on 1 December 1985, he demanded Rs. 1,000 from villager a Magodi man to avoid arresting his brothers and accepted Rs. 600 at the panchayat office/tea-stall on 2 December 1985, recovered in an ACB trap. Since the 1947 Act prescribed no minimum sentence and the constable faced dismissal and years of agony, it reduced the substantive sentence from six months to one month rigorous imprisonment, confirming the Rs. 700 fine. It directed him to surrender within six weeks.", "court_quote": "For short, I do not find any perversity or illegality in the finding of conviction recorded by the ld. Trial Judge and it is rightly submitted by ld. APP Mr. Pandit that the appeal deserves to be dismissed as the same is devoid of any merits.", "court_quote_para": "27", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "PC Act 1947 bribery conviction upheld; sentence cut 6 months to 1 month RI, fine confirmed.", "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 Gujarat High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 959 of 1992 (Special Case No. 5 of 1987, Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural))", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2007-03-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gujarat High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gujarat 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 No. 959 of 1992 (Special Case No. 5 of 1987, Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural))", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/436040/natwarlal-mohanlal-zala-appellant-hash-state-of-gujarat-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1433203/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-111" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-48-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }