{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1210", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ahmedabad Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "display_title_redacted": "Ahmedabad Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "state": "Gujarat", "district": "Ahmedabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ahmedabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Naroda Police Station", "court": "Gujarat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ahmedabad Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 104 of 1990", "citation": "LAWS(GJH)-2007-5-174", "judges": [ "C.K. Buch" ], "judgment_date": "2007-05-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1986-12-08", "incident_year": 1986, "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": [ "IPC 161", "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d) r/w s.5(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad City", "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, Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad City" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad City", "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": "Head Constable, Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad City" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Ahmedabad resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://archive.org/download/india.highcourt.judgement.gjhc240136801990/GJHC240136801990.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=207002815100&Title=NATHUBHAI-MOTIBHAI-PATEL-Vs.-STATE-OF-GUJARAT" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Constable and Head Constable of Naroda Police Station visited timber trader [name withheld]'s premises in December 1986 after a sales-tax complaint, a bailable matter, and agreed to accept Rs.3,000 for not seeking remand after arrest. The ACB trap recovered part-payment of Rs.800 plus blank signed papers from the head constable's portfolio. The Special Judge convicted both officers in 1989. The Gujarat High Court rejected the mistaken-identity defence, confirmed the conviction, but reduced the two-year sentences to three months' RI given the age of the case; no formal sentence order was passed for the second appellant, who died during the appeal.", "summary_verified": "Constable and Head Constable of Naroda Police Station visited timber trader [name withheld]'s premises in December 1986 after a sales-tax complaint, a bailable matter, and agreed to accept Rs.3,000 for not seeking remand after arrest. The ACB trap recovered part-payment of Rs.800 plus blank signed papers from the head constable's portfolio. The Special Judge convicted both officers in 1989. The Gujarat High Court rejected the mistaken-identity defence, confirmed the conviction, but reduced the two-year sentences to three months' RI given the age of the case; no formal sentence order was passed for the second appellant, who died during the appeal.", "court_quote": "The judgment and order of conviction dated 20.12.1989 passed by the Special Judge, City Civil Court, Ahmedabad in Special (ACB) Case No.48 of 1988, is hereby confirmed and the judgment and order of sentence dated 20.12.1989, passed by the learned Special Judge, City Civil Court, Ahmedabad, in Special (ACB) Case No.48 of 1988, is hereby reduced and modified to the extent that instead of 2 years' RI and to pay a fine of Rs.3,000/- and in default to undergo RI for 9 months for the offence punishable under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code and to undergo sentence of 2 years RI and to pay a fine of Rs.3,000/- and in default to undergo RI for 9 months for the offence punishable under Section 5(1)(d) r/w. Sec.5(2) of the Act, both the appellants now shall undergo RI for 3 months for both the offences and in default punishment for each of these offences imposed i.e for a period of 9 months is reduced to 1½ months.", "court_quote_para": "56", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Conviction of two Naroda PS officers for bribery confirmed, sentence cut to 3 months RI; judgment PDF verified.", "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": "LAWS(GJH)-2007-5-174", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2007-05-11", "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": "LAWS(GJH)-2007-5-174", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://archive.org/download/india.highcourt.judgement.gjhc240136801990/GJHC240136801990.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=207002815100&Title=NATHUBHAI-MOTIBHAI-PATEL-Vs.-STATE-OF-GUJARAT", "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-112" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-48-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }