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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0382",
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 "display_title": "Saduq Ali vs State ACB rep. by Inspector of Police",
 "display_title_redacted": "Saduq Ali vs State ACB rep. by Inspector of Police",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": "Hyderabad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Hyderabad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Balanagar Police Station",
 "court": "Telangana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Saduq Ali vs State ACB rep. by Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 799 of 2006",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "T. Rajani"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2018-09-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2000-03-22",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "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)(i)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)(ii)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Saduq Ali",
   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Balanagar Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.13,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.93,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Saduq Ali",
   "display": "Saduq Ali (Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Hyderabad man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Hyderabad man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1.0,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63079089/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Saduq Ali of Balanagar Police Station detained a scrap dealer and his father in March 2000, threatening them with false implication in a theft case unless scrap metals and a bribe of Rs 50,000 were paid. After releasing the complainant, the officer demanded an immediate installment of Rs 20,000 and visited the scrap shop to collect the sum. On 22 March 2000, the Anti-Corruption Bureau laid a trap at the shop, catching the appellant red-handed upon receiving the bribe amount. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000. The High Court affirmed the conviction based on consistent testimony from subordinate constables and mediators, reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year while leaving the fine undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Saduq Ali of Balanagar Police Station detained a scrap dealer and his father in March 2000, threatening them with false implication in a theft case unless scrap metals and a bribe of Rs 50,000 were paid. After releasing the complainant, the officer demanded an immediate installment of Rs 20,000 and visited the scrap shop to collect the sum. On 22 March 2000, the Anti-Corruption Bureau laid a trap at the shop, catching the appellant red-handed upon receiving the bribe amount. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000. The High Court affirmed the conviction based on consistent testimony from subordinate constables and mediators, reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year while leaving the fine undisturbed.",
 "court_quote": "The criminal appeal is partly allowed confirming the conviction imposed by the trial court. However, the sentence of imprisonment, imposed by the trial court, is reduced from two years rigorous imprisonment to one year rigorous imprisonment.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Telangana High Court confirmed PC Act conviction of ASI Saduq Ali, reducing sentence from 2 years to 1 year RI while maintaining fine.",
 "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 Telangana High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 799 of 2006",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2018-09-27",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Telangana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Telangana 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. 799 of 2006",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63079089/",
   "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-13"
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 "merged_case_id": "TELANG-005",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}