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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1237",
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 "display_title": "Lakshadweep Police Sub Inspector of Police vs State of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Lakshadweep Police Sub Inspector of Police vs State of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Ernakulam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kochi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Lakshadweep Police Special Branch Office, Cochin",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Lakshadweep Police Sub Inspector of Police vs State of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 379 of 2003",
 "citation": "2010 (1) KLD 581",
 "judges": [
  "V. Ramkumar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-03-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "1999-03-15",
 "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)"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sub Inspector of Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "unit": "Lakshadweep Police Special Branch Office, Cochin",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub Inspector of Police, Lakshadweep Police Special Branch Office, Cochin"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kochi man"
  }
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 "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/557738/joseph-james-jose-appellant-hash-state-of-kerala-respondent/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Sub Inspector of the Lakshadweep Police Special Branch at Cochin demanded Rs.250 from labour contractor [name withheld] for issuing the police clearance certificate needed for a Minicoy Island entry permit, and accepted it in a CBI trap in March 1999. The Special Judge (SPE/CBI-II), Ernakulam convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, sentencing him to 6 months and 1 year's rigorous imprisonment with fines. The Kerala High Court held the prosecution proved demand and acceptance through testimony, contemporaneous mahazars, the phenolphthalein test and the accused's conduct. The court dismissed the appeal confirming conviction and sentence, observing the trial judge had erred, if at all, on the side of leniency.",
 "summary_verified": "Sub Inspector of the Lakshadweep Police Special Branch at Cochin demanded Rs.250 from labour contractor [name withheld] for issuing the police clearance certificate needed for a Minicoy Island entry permit, and accepted it in a CBI trap in March 1999. The Special Judge (SPE/CBI-II), Ernakulam convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, sentencing him to 6 months and 1 year's rigorous imprisonment with fines. The Kerala High Court held the prosecution proved demand and acceptance through testimony, contemporaneous mahazars, the phenolphthalein test and the accused's conduct. The court dismissed the appeal confirming conviction and sentence, observing the trial judge had erred, if at all, on the side of leniency.",
 "court_quote": "After a careful re-appraisal of the oral and documentary evidence and after hearing both sides, I have no hesitation to conclude that the conviction against the appellant was rightly recorded by the trial judge. I, therefore, confirm the conviction recorded by the court below against the appellant for offences punishable under Sections 7 and 13(2) of the P.C. Act.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on CourtKutchehry (casemine 403); PC Act bribery conviction of SI confirmed.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
  }
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   "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": "2010 (1) KLD 581",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2010-03-11",
   "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": "2010 (1) KLD 581",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "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)",
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-67-001",
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