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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0027",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1204",
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 "display_title": "Ahmedabad Police Constable and others vs State of Gujarat",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ahmedabad Police Constable and others 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 Constable and others vs State of Gujarat",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 775 of 1993 (Special Case No. 20 of 1990, Special Judge, Court No. 2, Ahmedabad)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "M.D. Shah"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-09-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1989-12-01",
 "incident_year": 1989,
 "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.13(1)(d)(i)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)(ii)",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad city",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "display": "Constable, Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad city"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad city",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Naroda Police Station, Ahmedabad city"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Ahmedabad man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/653760/",
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 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court (M.D. Shah, J.) on 30 September 2008 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 775 of 1993, upholding the corruption conviction of two Naroda Police Station constables by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad (29 June 1993). The court held proved beyond doubt that they demanded and accepted Rs. 1,000 illegal gratification from scrap trader [name withheld] on 1-2 December 1989 for not registering a case over missing purchase bills, relying on the panch witness and ACB officer evidence from the trap with marked notes. It rejected the defence that the notes were thrust on them during a summons visit. Given ~20 years had passed, it reduced appellant No. 1 [name withheld]'s sentence from three years to one year rigorous imprisonment on all counts; appellant No. 2 [name withheld] died during appeal so no sentence order was passed for him.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court (M.D. Shah, J.) on 30 September 2008 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 775 of 1993, upholding the corruption conviction of two Naroda Police Station constables by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad (29 June 1993). The court held proved beyond doubt that they demanded and accepted Rs. 1,000 illegal gratification from scrap trader [name withheld] on 1-2 December 1989 for not registering a case over missing purchase bills, relying on the panch witness and ACB officer evidence from the trap with marked notes. It rejected the defence that the notes were thrust on them during a summons visit. Given ~20 years had passed, it reduced appellant No. 1 [name withheld]'s sentence from three years to one year rigorous imprisonment on all counts; appellant No. 2 [name withheld] died during appeal so no sentence order was passed for him.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above discussion and taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case and the oral and documentary evidence available on record, I have no hesitation in holding that the amount of Rs.1,000/- received by the accused persons from the complainant on 01.12.1989 was illegal gratification and that the ingredients of bribe i.e. demand, offer and acceptance have been successfully proved by the prosecution beyond doubt.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 10.0",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "PC Act bribery conviction of two constables upheld; sentence cut 3 years to 1 year for delay.",
 "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. 775 of 1993 (Special Case No. 20 of 1990, Special Judge, Court No. 2, Ahmedabad)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2008-09-30",
   "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. 775 of 1993 (Special Case No. 20 of 1990, Special Judge, Court No. 2, Ahmedabad)",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/653760/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-48-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}