{ "record_id": "CW-2014-0004", "status": "overturned", "merged_id": "CWC-0208", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Thiruvananthapuram Police Head Constable (No.4782), Station Writer vs State of Kerala", "display_title_redacted": "Thiruvananthapuram Police Head Constable (No.4782), Station Writer vs State of Kerala", "state": "Kerala", "district": "Thiruvananthapuram", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Thiruvananthapuram", "police_station_or_unit": "Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram", "court": "Kerala High Court", "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Thiruvananthapuram Police Head Constable (No.4782), Station Writer vs State of Kerala", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 108 of 2001", "citation": null, "judges": [ "A. Hariprasad" ], "judgment_date": "2014-05-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1998-12-10", "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.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable (No.4782), Station Writer", "unit": "Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "history:acquitted_on_appeal" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "acquitted_on_appeal", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable (No.4782), Station Writer, Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Thiruvananthapuram 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/10284191/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Head Constable, Station Writer at Fort Police Station, was trapped by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on 10 December 1998 accepting two phenolphthalein-marked Rs 100 notes to release a surety's seized bicycle, watch, pen and wallet; though the complainant turned hostile on the Rs 1,500 demand, trap witnesses, chemical tests and recovery from his shirt pocket proved voluntary acceptance. The Special Court had convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the PC Act with three-year sentences. The Kerala High Court set aside the Section 7 conviction for want of proof of demand but confirmed the Section 13 criminal-misconduct conviction, reducing the sentence to one year rigorous imprisonment with Rs 10,000 fine. Later proceedings: on 29 January 2015, the Supreme Court of India acquitted [name withheld] of all charges on appeal; the convictions recorded in this judgment therefore do not stand. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable, Station Writer at Fort Police Station, was trapped by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on 10 December 1998 accepting two phenolphthalein-marked Rs 100 notes to release a surety's seized bicycle, watch, pen and wallet; though the complainant turned hostile on the Rs 1,500 demand, trap witnesses, chemical tests and recovery from his shirt pocket proved voluntary acceptance. The Special Court had convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the PC Act with three-year sentences. The Kerala High Court set aside the Section 7 conviction for want of proof of demand but confirmed the Section 13 criminal-misconduct conviction, reducing the sentence to one year rigorous imprisonment with Rs 10,000 fine.", "court_quote": "In this case, there is sufficient evidence to find that PW2 had paid two `100/- decoy notes to the appellant and he voluntarily accepted money as bribe. Therefore, I am of the definite view that the conviction of the appellant under Section 13(1)(d) of the Act is to be upheld.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Kerala HC single judge confirmed s.13(1)(d) PC Act conviction of Fort station-writer head constable for voluntarily accepting Rs 200 bribe, setting aside s.7 for unproven demand and reducing sentence to 1 year RI.", "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. 108 of 2001", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2014-05-22", "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. 108 of 2001", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2015-01-29", "action_type": "Acquitted on appeal", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "Later proceedings: on 29 January 2015, the Supreme Court of India acquitted [name withheld] of all charges on appeal; the convictions recorded in this judgment therefore do not stand.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Conviction not standing", "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122753027/", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2015-01-29", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122753027/", "outcome": "acquitted_on_appeal" } ], "final_outcome_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122753027/", "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/10284191/", "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": [ "chunk-06", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KERALA-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }