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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0325",
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 "display_title": "Ram Karan vs State of Rajasthan",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ram Karan vs State of Rajasthan",
 "state": "Rajasthan",
 "district": "Tonk",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Aligarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Aligarh Police Station",
 "court": "Rajasthan High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court",
 "bench": "Jaipur",
 "case_title": "Ram Karan vs State of Rajasthan",
 "case_number": "S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 478/1986",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Narendra Singh Dhaddha"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-07-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "1982-10-11",
 "incident_year": 1982,
 "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": [
  "IPC 161",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)",
  "PC Act 1947 s.5(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Ram Karan",
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Aligarh 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": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.97,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Ram Karan",
   "display": "Ram Karan (Sub-Inspector)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Aligarh 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/34724178/",
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 "summary": "The Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court dismissed an appeal and upheld the conviction of former SHO-Inspector Ram Karan of Aligarh Police Station, Tonk, under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(1)(d) read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. Ram Karan had threatened complainant [name withheld] with criminal prosecution under Section 182 IPC over an alleged false abduction complaint unless paid a bribe of Rs. 200, which was seized during an Anti-Corruption Department trap. Despite the officer passing away during the 36-year appeal pendency and his legal representatives continuing the appeal, the High Court held demand and acceptance firmly established and affirmed his conviction and concurrent one-year sentence.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court dismissed an appeal and upheld the conviction of former SHO-Inspector Ram Karan of Aligarh Police Station, Tonk, under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(1)(d) read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. Ram Karan had threatened complainant [name withheld] with criminal prosecution under Section 182 IPC over an alleged false abduction complaint unless paid a bribe of Rs. 200, which was seized during an Anti-Corruption Department trap. Despite the officer passing away during the 36-year appeal pendency and his legal representatives continuing the appeal, the High Court held demand and acceptance firmly established and affirmed his conviction and concurrent one-year sentence.",
 "court_quote": "I am of the considered opinion that the judgment and order of the learned trial court does not suffer from infirmity and illegality. The appeal devoid of merit, is liable to be dismissed. In the result, the appeal is dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rajasthan High Court dismissed appeal and upheld the PC Act conviction and 1-year sentence of Sub-Inspector Ram Karan for demanding a Rs. 200 bribe.",
 "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 Rajasthan High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Rajasthan High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 478/1986",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2022-07-25",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Rajasthan High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Rajasthan High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 478/1986",
   "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/34724178/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "RAJAST-007",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}