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 "record_id": "CW-2008-0029",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1138",
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 "display_title": "Aurangabad Police Police Head Constable and others vs The State of Maharashtra",
 "display_title_redacted": "Aurangabad Police Police Head Constable and others vs The State of Maharashtra",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar",
 "district_at_time": "Aurangabad",
 "city_town": "Aurangabad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Waluj Police Station",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court",
 "bench": "Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "Aurangabad Police Police Head Constable and others vs The State of Maharashtra",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 594 of 1996",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.U. Chandiwal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2008-11-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2008,
 "incident_date": "1991-04-30",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "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) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Head Constable",
   "unit": "Waluj Police Station, Aurangabad",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable, Waluj Police Station, Aurangabad"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Aurangabad 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/352580/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Police Head Constable demanded Rs.500 from complainant [name withheld] to desist from arresting two men in a land-dispute inquiry at Waluj, Aurangabad, taking Rs.100 on 27.04.1991 and the Rs.400 balance in an ACB trap at Rajasthan Upahargriha on 30.04.1991. The Special Judge, Aurangabad convicted him under ss.7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the PC Act 1988 (1 year RI + Rs.300 fine on each count). The court held sanction valid, the panch evidence credible, and demand, acceptance and recovery of tainted notes proved, dismissing the appeal and directing surrender on 08.12.2008.",
 "summary_verified": "Police Head Constable demanded Rs.500 from complainant [name withheld] to desist from arresting two men in a land-dispute inquiry at Waluj, Aurangabad, taking Rs.100 on 27.04.1991 and the Rs.400 balance in an ACB trap at Rajasthan Upahargriha on 30.04.1991. The Special Judge, Aurangabad convicted him under ss.7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the PC Act 1988 (1 year RI + Rs.300 fine on each count). The court held sanction valid, the panch evidence credible, and demand, acceptance and recovery of tainted notes proved, dismissing the appeal and directing surrender on 08.12.2008.",
 "court_quote": "Thus, the crystallisation of the evidence establishes that there was motive, demand, acceptance and recovery of the tainted notes.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC confirmed PHC's PC Act conviction; motive, demand, acceptance and recovery proved.",
 "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 Bombay High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Bombay High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 594 of 1996",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2008-11-17",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Bombay High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Bombay 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. 594 of 1996",
   "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/352580/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-21-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}