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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0020",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0815",
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 "display_title": "Pathanapuram Police Head Constable vs State of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pathanapuram Police Head Constable vs State of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pathanapuram",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pathanapuram Police Station",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pathanapuram Police Head Constable vs State of Kerala",
 "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 104 of 2008",
 "citation": "(2016) 03 KL CK 0089",
 "judges": [
  "P. Ubaid J."
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-03-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2002-08-10",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "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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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Pathanapuram Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Pathanapuram Police Station"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Pathanapuram woman"
  }
 ],
 "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/571929/a-soman-vs-the-state-of-kerala/",
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 "summary": "The Kerala High Court (P. Ubaid, J.) confirmed the corruption conviction of Head Constable of Pathanapuram Police Station, caught in a 10 August 2002 VACB trap accepting Rs.1,000 after demanding a bribe to absolve complainant [name withheld] from a criminal case forwarded under Section 156(3) CrPC. The Court held sanction valid, demand proved by the complainant and her son, and acceptance proved with the trap witness plus recovery of phenolphthalein-tainted currency from his table drawer, rejecting the vicious-trap defence. Conviction under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, 1988 was confirmed, but the substantive sentence was reduced to the pre-2014 statutory minimum (SI six months under s.7; SI one year under s.13(2)), with the fine maintained and default sentence cut to SI three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Kerala High Court (P. Ubaid, J.) confirmed the corruption conviction of Head Constable of Pathanapuram Police Station, caught in a 10 August 2002 VACB trap accepting Rs.1,000 after demanding a bribe to absolve complainant [name withheld] from a criminal case forwarded under Section 156(3) CrPC. The Court held sanction valid, demand proved by the complainant and her son, and acceptance proved with the trap witness plus recovery of phenolphthalein-tainted currency from his table drawer, rejecting the vicious-trap defence. Conviction under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, 1988 was confirmed, but the substantive sentence was reduced to the pre-2014 statutory minimum (SI six months under s.7; SI one year under s.13(2)), with the fine maintained and default sentence cut to SI three months.",
 "court_quote": "The conviction made by the court below against the appellant under Sections 7 and 13(2) of the P.C. Act is confirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "PC Act conviction of Head Constable confirmed; jail term cut to statutory minimum, fine maintained.",
 "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"
  }
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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": "(2016) 03 KL CK 0089",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2016-03-14",
   "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": "(2016) 03 KL CK 0089",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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": [
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   ]
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5728e164e561092708a40c97",
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-31-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}