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 "display_title": "Chavara Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (Grade) vs State of Kerala",
 "display_title_redacted": "Chavara Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (Grade) vs State of Kerala",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Kollam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chavara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Chavara Police Station, Kollam",
 "court": "Kerala High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Chavara Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (Grade) vs State of Kerala",
 "case_number": "CRL.A No. 1229 of 2014",
 "citation": "2026:KER:20489",
 "judges": [
  "A. Badharudeen"
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 "judgment_date": "2026-03-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2009-04-21",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
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   "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector (Grade)",
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Chavara man"
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 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2033000122920142watermark-1773231.pdf",
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  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/kerala-high-court/sudarsanan-v-state-of-kerala-crla-no-1229-of-2014-bribery-asi-demand-acceptance-1609517",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/51148852/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Entrusted with complainant [name withheld]'s property-dispute complaint, ASI (Grade) [name withheld] of Chavara Police Station demanded Rs 2,000 on 21 April 2009 and accepted it on 24 April 2009 in a vigilance trap, being caught red-handed. The Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act 1988. The Kerala High Court rejected defences on sanction validity, witness contradictions and the decoy evidence, holding the ingredients proved beyond reasonable doubt with PW1 corroborated by the decoy witness and vigilance officials. The appeal was allowed in part: the conviction was confirmed but the sentence was reduced to the statutory minimum of six months RI with Rs 5,000 fine and one year RI with Rs 10,000 fine, concurrent.",
 "summary_verified": "Entrusted with complainant [name withheld]'s property-dispute complaint, ASI (Grade) [name withheld] of Chavara Police Station demanded Rs 2,000 on 21 April 2009 and accepted it on 24 April 2009 in a vigilance trap, being caught red-handed. The Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Thiruvananthapuram convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act 1988. The Kerala High Court rejected defences on sanction validity, witness contradictions and the decoy evidence, holding the ingredients proved beyond reasonable doubt with PW1 corroborated by the decoy witness and vigilance officials. The appeal was allowed in part: the conviction was confirmed but the sentence was reduced to the statutory minimum of six months RI with Rs 5,000 fine and one year RI with Rs 10,000 fine, concurrent.",
 "court_quote": "On an overall evaluation of the evidence discussed, the ingredients to constitute offences punishable under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the PC Act, 1988 have been satisfactorily proved by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubts and thereby the learned Special Judge found that the accused committed the said offences.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Conviction confirmed; sentence cut to statutory minimum (6 months/1 year).",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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   "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"
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   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "2026:KER:20489",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-03-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Kerala High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Kerala High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "2026:KER:20489",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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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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