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 "display_title": "Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": "Yadadri Bhuvanagiri",
 "district_at_time": "Nalgonda",
 "city_town": "Choutuppal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Choutuppal Police Station",
 "court": "Telangana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008",
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  "K. Surender"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-03-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2003-06-26",
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 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
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   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Choutuppal man"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. Police Constable of Choutuppal Police Station intercepted a sand-laden lorry on 23 June 2003, seized its registration documents, and demanded a bribe of Rs 2,000 to return them. On 26 June 2003, during a trap laid by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, the appellant received the tainted bribe at his residence and threw the currency into an adjacent drain upon seeing the trap party. 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. The High Court found the demand, acceptance, and recovery firmly established, affirming the conviction while reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Police Constable of Choutuppal Police Station intercepted a sand-laden lorry on 23 June 2003, seized its registration documents, and demanded a bribe of Rs 2,000 to return them. On 26 June 2003, during a trap laid by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, the appellant received the tainted bribe at his residence and threw the currency into an adjacent drain upon seeing the trap party. 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. The High Court found the demand, acceptance, and recovery firmly established, affirming the conviction while reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently.",
 "court_quote": "The grounds raised by the learned counsel cannot be accepted to interfere with the conviction of the appellant. However, the sentence of imprisonment of two years under Section 7 and Sections 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Act is reduced to one year under both counts.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Telangana High Court confirmed PC Act conviction of Police Constable, reducing sentence from 2 years to 1 year RI.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
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   "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. 1369 of 2008",
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   "date": "2025-03-19",
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   "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. 1369 of 2008",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-07-21",
   "action_type": "Appeal pending",
   "status": "Pending",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "As of 21 July 2025, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.",
   "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending",
   "source": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-07-21/M_C_1.pdf",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "date": "2025-07-21",
   "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-07-21/M_C_1.pdf",
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   "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)",
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