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 "record_id": "CW-2007-0031",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1236",
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 "display_title": "Venjaramoodu Police Head Constable vs State of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Venjaramoodu Police Head Constable vs State of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Thiruvananthapuram",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Venjaramoodu",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Venjaramoodu Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Venjaramoodu Police Head Constable vs State of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 446 of 2005",
 "citation": "2007(4) KHC 774",
 "judges": [
  "V. Ramkumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2007-11-05",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2007,
 "incident_date": "1999-03-08",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "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(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Venjaramoodu Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram",
   "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, Venjaramoodu Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Venjaramoodu resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=117002384300&title=a-sasidharan-vs-state-of-kerala",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121625441/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Head Constable of Venjaramoodu Police Station demanded Rs.500 from an accused in Crime No.17/99 for deleting his name from the accused array, and accepted Rs.300 in phenolphthalein-smeared notes in a VACB trap on 10 March 1999. The Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act. The Kerala High Court dismissed his appeal on 5 November 2007, holding the demand and knowing acceptance proved through the complainant's admissions and independent trap witnesses. The Supreme Court dismissed his further appeal on 13 August 2015, holding the High Court's confirmation of the 1-year concurrent sentences suffered no infirmity.",
 "summary_verified": "Head Constable of Venjaramoodu Police Station demanded Rs.500 from an accused in Crime No.17/99 for deleting his name from the accused array, and accepted Rs.300 in phenolphthalein-smeared notes in a VACB trap on 10 March 1999. The Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act. The Kerala High Court dismissed his appeal on 5 November 2007, holding the demand and knowing acceptance proved through the complainant's admissions and independent trap witnesses. The Supreme Court dismissed his further appeal on 13 August 2015, holding the High Court's confirmation of the 1-year concurrent sentences suffered no infirmity.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, the High Court concluded that there was sufficient material on record to show that the appellant was receiving illegal gratification pursuant to a demand made in that regard and that the learned Special Judge had not committed any error in convicting and sentencing the appellant.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment corroborated via SC order (Crl.A. 952/2008) and reporter citation; full HC text not directly fetched.",
 "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 Kerala High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2007(4) KHC 774",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2007-11-05",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "2007(4) KHC 774",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=117002384300&title=a-sasidharan-vs-state-of-kerala",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/121625441/",
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-66-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}