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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0031",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0692",
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 "display_title": "Bengaluru Police Head Constable vs The State of Karnataka",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Police Head Constable vs The State of Karnataka",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bengaluru Police Head Constable vs The State of Karnataka",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C. No. 383/2018, Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru, 29.09.2021)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "H. P. Sandesh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-05-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2017-07-15",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "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 s.8",
  "PC Act s.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47081662/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Head Constable of Bagalagunte Police Station demanded Rs.20,000, settled at Rs.10,000, from an accused in Crime No.238/2017 to compromise the matter, receiving Rs.1,000 on 30 June 2017. The complainant recorded the conversation and approached the ACB, which laid a trap on 15 July 2017 in which the accused pocketed marked notes and both hand washes turned pink. The Special Court convicted him in 2021, imposing 3 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 8 and 4 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act. Justice Sandesh dismissed the appeal, holding demand and acceptance proved through the complainant, panch and trap witnesses, call records and the FSL voice-comparison report, with minor discrepancies not shaking the prosecution case.",
 "summary_verified": "Head Constable of Bagalagunte Police Station demanded Rs.20,000, settled at Rs.10,000, from an accused in Crime No.238/2017 to compromise the matter, receiving Rs.1,000 on 30 June 2017. The complainant recorded the conversation and approached the ACB, which laid a trap on 15 July 2017 in which the accused pocketed marked notes and both hand washes turned pink. The Special Court convicted him in 2021, imposing 3 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 8 and 4 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act. Justice Sandesh dismissed the appeal, holding demand and acceptance proved through the complainant, panch and trap witnesses, call records and the FSL voice-comparison report, with minor discrepancies not shaking the prosecution case.",
 "court_quote": "there is a material with regard to the demand and acceptance and the same is also spoken by P.W.2, P.W.4 and P.W.6",
 "court_quote_para": "46",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; ACB-trap bribery conviction of head constable (3+4 years RI) confirmed.",
 "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 Karnataka High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C. No. 383/2018, Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru, 29.09.2021)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-05-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka 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. 1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C. No. 383/2018, Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru, 29.09.2021)",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47081662/",
   "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": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP10-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}