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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0228",
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 "display_title": "Subhashchandra Joshi vs State of M.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Subhashchandra Joshi vs State of M.P.",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Dewas",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pipalrawan",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pipalrawan Police Station",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Indore",
 "case_title": "Subhashchandra Joshi vs State of M.P.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 994 of 2001",
 "citation": "(2012) 02 MP CK 0123",
 "judges": [
  "S.R. Waghmare",
  "A.K. Shrivastava"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-02-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1999-07-18",
 "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(1)(d)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
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   "name": "Subhashchandra Joshi",
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Police Station Pipalrawan, Dewas",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
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   "jev_risk": 0.09,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Subhashchandra Joshi",
   "display": "Subhashchandra Joshi (Head Constable)"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Pipalrawan man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 4,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/598259/subhashchandra-joshi-vs-state-of-mp/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Head Constable Subhashchandra Joshi of Pipalrawan Police Station, Dewas, while investigating a case against complainant [name withheld] and his three brothers, demanded Rs. 1,500 to release them on bail, threatening to send them to jail if unpaid. On 18.07.1999 the Lokayukta (SPE Ujjain) trapped him red-handed inside the police station accepting treated currency, with a positive phenolphthalein test and recovery of the notes from his bag. The Special Judge, Dewas, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed his appeal, holding motive, demand and acceptance proved and rejecting his afterthought medicine-contamination defence, directing surrender by 02.04.2012.",
 "summary_verified": "Head Constable Subhashchandra Joshi of Pipalrawan Police Station, Dewas, while investigating a case against complainant [name withheld] and his three brothers, demanded Rs. 1,500 to release them on bail, threatening to send them to jail if unpaid. On 18.07.1999 the Lokayukta (SPE Ujjain) trapped him red-handed inside the police station accepting treated currency, with a positive phenolphthalein test and recovery of the notes from his bag. The Special Judge, Dewas, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) dismissed his appeal, holding motive, demand and acceptance proved and rejecting his afterthought medicine-contamination defence, directing surrender by 02.04.2012.",
 "court_quote": "We have also gone through the reasonings assigned by learned Special Judge convicting the appellant and we find them to be quite cogent as it is based on correct appreciation of evidence and law and hence, by extending our stamp of approval to those reasonings and findings we hereby dismiss this appeal.",
 "court_quote_para": "26",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP High Court (Indore Division Bench) dismissed the appeal of Head Constable Subhashchandra Joshi, affirming his PC Act conviction for the Rs 1,500 bribe trap at Pipalrawan police station.",
 "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 Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2012) 02 MP CK 0123",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2012-02-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2012) 02 MP CK 0123",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": []
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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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