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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0006",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0445",
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 "display_title": "Gujarat Police Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Gujarat",
 "display_title_redacted": "Gujarat Police Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Gujarat",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Bhavnagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Aasarana Chokdi, Mahuva",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Aasarana Chokdi",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Gujarat Police Police Sub-Inspector v. State of Gujarat",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 408 of 2008",
 "citation": "2008 (11) SCC 163",
 "judges": [
  "Arijit Pasayat",
  "J.M. Panchal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-02-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1990-12-12",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "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 1988 s.7"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Gujarat Police (on duty at Aasarana Chokdi)",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear",
    "key2_gpt:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": "unclear",
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Gujarat Police (on duty at Aasarana Chokdi)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Aasarana Chokdi, Mahuva man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/54626/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court maintained the conviction of Police Sub-Inspector, who had stopped a marriage-party luxury bus at Aasarana Chokdi, retained its permit and papers, and demanded Rs.250 as entry fee from the travels mehtaji. The Court found sufficient evidence of demand and acceptance of the bribe. Given the prolonged pendency and over six months already spent in custody, it reduced the one year's rigorous imprisonment to the period undergone while maintaining the conviction and fine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court maintained the conviction of Police Sub-Inspector, who had stopped a marriage-party luxury bus at Aasarana Chokdi, retained its permit and papers, and demanded Rs.250 as entry fee from the travels mehtaji. The Court found sufficient evidence of demand and acceptance of the bribe. Given the prolonged pendency and over six months already spent in custody, it reduced the one year's rigorous imprisonment to the period undergone while maintaining the conviction and fine.",
 "court_quote": "We feel interest of justice would be best served if the sentence is reduced to the period undergone, while maintaining the conviction.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment text verified; PSI entry-fee bribery conviction maintained, sentence cut to undergone.",
 "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 Supreme Court of India judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2008 (11) SCC 163",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2008-02-29",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "2008 (11) SCC 163",
   "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/54626/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWBRIBER-019",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}