{ "record_id": "CW-2021-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0103", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Delhi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.", "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.", "state": "Delhi", "district": "North West Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Keshav Puram", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Shanti Nagar, P.S. Keshav Puram, Delhi Police", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Delhi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.", "case_number": "CRL.A. 289/2001", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2021 DEL 1636", "judges": [ "Anu Malhotra" ], "judgment_date": "2021-09-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "1996-06-15", "incident_year": 1996, "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)", "IPC 186", "IPC 201", "IPC 511", "IPC 224", "IPC 332", "IPC 353" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Post Shanti Nagar, P.S. Keshav Puram, Delhi Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.98, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "pending_appeal", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Shanti Nagar, P.S. Keshav Puram, Delhi Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Keshav Puram man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 3, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/176557525/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/20-years-after-granting-bail-delhi-high-court-upholds-conviction-of-cop-in-bribery-case" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court dismissed ASI 's appeal and sustained his CBI-trap conviction, withdrawing bail granted in 2001 and ordering him taken into custody forthwith. The court found that while investigating a kidnapping complaint against a Keshav Puram man, he demanded Rs 10,000 reduced to Rs 5,000 on 15 June 1996 threatening arrest even though the couple had married with family consent; he accepted the tainted notes, then assaulted CBI officers, smashed the hand-wash glass and fled to the police-post roof before recapture. The court held demand, acceptance and recovery proved by the shadow witness and trap party despite minor variations. The concurrent sentences under the PC Act and IPC provisions, with a maximum of 3 years simple imprisonment, were sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court dismissed ASI 's appeal and sustained his CBI-trap conviction, withdrawing bail granted in 2001 and ordering him taken into custody forthwith. The court found that while investigating a kidnapping complaint against a Keshav Puram man, he demanded Rs 10,000 reduced to Rs 5,000 on 15 June 1996 threatening arrest even though the couple had married with family consent; he accepted the tainted notes, then assaulted CBI officers, smashed the hand-wash glass and fled to the police-post roof before recapture. The court held demand, acceptance and recovery proved by the shadow witness and trap party despite minor variations. The concurrent sentences under the PC Act and IPC provisions, with a maximum of 3 years simple imprisonment, were sustained.", "court_quote": "There is thus, no infirmity in the impugned judgment convicting the appellant for the commission of the offences punishable under Sections 7 & 13(2) r/w Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.", "court_quote_para": "77", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Delhi HC dismissed appeal, sustained PC Act + IPC convictions; withdrew 2001 bail, custody forthwith.", "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 Delhi High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIRONLINE 2021 DEL 1636", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2021-09-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIRONLINE 2021 DEL 1636", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2021-10-25", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 25 October 2021, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld]); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://order.law/api/pdf/SCIN010237932021?order=4r4wi", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2021-10-25", "url": "https://order.law/api/pdf/SCIN010237932021?order=4r4wi", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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/176557525/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/20-years-after-granting-bail-delhi-high-court-upholds-conviction-of-cop-in-bribery-case", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-15", "chunk-r09" ], "merged_case_id": "SWBRIBER-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }