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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0213",
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 "display_title": "Pandalam Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State Of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pandalam Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State Of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Pathanamthitta",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pandalam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pandalam Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pandalam Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State Of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 721 of 2000",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A.K. Basheer"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-06-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1998-07-08",
 "incident_year": 1998,
 "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": null,
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Pandalam Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.94,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Pandalam Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pandalam man"
  }
 ],
 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/821794/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector of Pandalam Police Station was convicted for demanding and receiving illegal gratification to release an autorickshaw involved in an accident. The officer accepted Rs. 500 initially and was caught red-handed in a vigilance trap while receiving the remaining Rs. 500 at Prakash hotel. The Kerala High Court confirmed the conviction under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, holding that the prosecution satisfactorily established the trap. Considering the appellant's age and lapse of time, the High Court reduced the substantive sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently, while maintaining the fines. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Assistant Sub-Inspector of Pandalam Police Station was convicted for demanding and receiving illegal gratification to release an autorickshaw involved in an accident. The officer accepted Rs. 500 initially and was caught red-handed in a vigilance trap while receiving the remaining Rs. 500 at Prakash hotel. The Kerala High Court confirmed the conviction under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, holding that the prosecution satisfactorily established the trap. Considering the appellant's age and lapse of time, the High Court reduced the substantive sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently, while maintaining the fines.",
 "court_quote": "I do not find any reason to interfere with the finding of guilty entered by the learned Special Judge. Therefore the order of conviction is confirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Kerala High Court confirmed the PC Act conviction of Assistant Sub-Inspector for taking a bribe to release an autorickshaw, modifying sentence to one year.",
 "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": "Crl.A. No. 721 of 2000",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2008-06-30",
   "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": "Crl.A. No. 721 of 2000",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/821794/",
   "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": [
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 "merged_case_id": "KERALA-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}