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 "record_id": "CW-2019-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0368",
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 "display_title": "B. Thiagarajan vs State, Rep. by the [name withheld], Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Wing, Theni",
 "display_title_redacted": "B. Thiagarajan vs State, Rep. by the [name withheld], Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Wing, Theni",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Theni",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Andipatti",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Chinnamanur Police Station (on deputation at Andipatti check post)",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "B. Thiagarajan vs State, Rep. by the [name withheld], Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Wing, Theni",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD) No. 133 of 2013",
 "citation": "AIRONLINE 2019 MAD 759",
 "judges": [
  "M. Dhandapani, J."
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2019-02-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2009-08-18",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "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)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "B. Thiagarajan",
   "rank": "Grade-I Constable",
   "unit": "Chinnamanur 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": 0.11,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "B. Thiagarajan",
   "display": "B. Thiagarajan (Grade-I Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Andipatti man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Andipatti man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1.0,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33290039/",
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 "summary": "The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the criminal appeal of Grade-I Police Constable B. Thiagarajan and affirmed his conviction under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. While posted at the Andipatti check post in Theni district, the officer intercepted two motorists on a motorcycle, seized their vehicle documents and mobile phone, and demanded an illegal gratification of Rs 1,000 under threat of a hefty fine. Following a trap laid by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption wing, the officer was caught red-handed accepting the phenolphthalein-treated notes. Justice M. Dhandapani held that the prosecution established the charges beyond reasonable doubt through consistent witness testimony and chemical analysis, confirming the sentence of one year simple imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the criminal appeal of Grade-I Police Constable B. Thiagarajan and affirmed his conviction under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. While posted at the Andipatti check post in Theni district, the officer intercepted two motorists on a motorcycle, seized their vehicle documents and mobile phone, and demanded an illegal gratification of Rs 1,000 under threat of a hefty fine. Following a trap laid by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption wing, the officer was caught red-handed accepting the phenolphthalein-treated notes. Justice M. Dhandapani held that the prosecution established the charges beyond reasonable doubt through consistent witness testimony and chemical analysis, confirming the sentence of one year simple imprisonment.",
 "court_quote": "this Court finds no merit in the appeal and hence, Criminal Appeal is dismissed and the conviction and sentence dated 19.04.2013, passed in Special Case No. 94 of 2011, by the learned Special Judge for Trial of Prevention of Corruption Act Cases, Madurai, is confirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court confirmed conviction of police constable under PC Act for demanding and accepting Rs 1,000 bribe at check post.",
 "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 Madras High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Madras High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "AIRONLINE 2019 MAD 759",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2019-02-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "AIRONLINE 2019 MAD 759",
   "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",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33290039/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-004",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}