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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0007",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0372",
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 "display_title": "The State represented by The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras vs R. Ravichandran",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State represented by The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras vs R. Ravichandran",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Pudukkottai",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Viralimalai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Viralimalai Police Station",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": "Madurai",
 "case_title": "The State represented by The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras vs R. Ravichandran",
 "case_number": "Crl.A.(MD) No. 174 of 2017",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.K. Ramakrishnan, J."
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 "judgment_date": "2024-04-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2012-11-29",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "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_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "R. Ravichandran",
   "rank": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Viralimalai Police Station",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "R. Ravichandran",
   "display": "R. Ravichandran (Special Sub-Inspector of Police)"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Viralimalai man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1.0,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/125703209/",
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 "summary": "The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court allowed an appeal against acquittal filed by the State, setting aside the trial court's order and convicting Special Sub-Inspector of Police R. Ravichandran under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The officer had demanded and accepted an illegal gratification of Rs 10,000 as monthly mamool from a lorry operator whose vehicles were repeatedly intercepted and targeted by Viralimalai police. Justice K.K. Ramakrishnan held that the trial court erred in disbelieving the trap evidence and the testimony of the shadow witness and complainant. The High Court reversed the acquittal, found the officer guilty, and sentenced him to one year of rigorous imprisonment alongside a fine of Rs 5,000 on each count, ordered to run concurrently. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court allowed an appeal against acquittal filed by the State, setting aside the trial court's order and convicting Special Sub-Inspector of Police R. Ravichandran under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The officer had demanded and accepted an illegal gratification of Rs 10,000 as monthly mamool from a lorry operator whose vehicles were repeatedly intercepted and targeted by Viralimalai police. Justice K.K. Ramakrishnan held that the trial court erred in disbelieving the trap evidence and the testimony of the shadow witness and complainant. The High Court reversed the acquittal, found the officer guilty, and sentenced him to one year of rigorous imprisonment alongside a fine of Rs 5,000 on each count, ordered to run concurrently.",
 "court_quote": "Accordingly, this Criminal Appeal stands allowed by setting aside the judgment passed by the learned Special Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pudukkottai in Spl.C.C.No.4 of 2013 dated 13.04.2016 and convicting the accused for the offence under section 7, 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.",
 "court_quote_para": "55",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "High Court allowed State appeal against acquittal, convicting Special Sub-Inspector under PC Act for demanding and accepting Rs 10,000 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": "2024-04-25",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Crl.A.(MD) No. 174 of 2017",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/125703209/",
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 "merged_case_id": "TAMILN-008",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}