{
 "record_id": "CW-2026-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0435",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable vs State NCT of Delhi",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Head Constable vs State NCT of Delhi",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "West Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patel Nagar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Patel Nagar Police Station, Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable vs State NCT of Delhi",
 "case_number": "CRL.A. 897/2006",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Chandrasekharan Sudha"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-04-15",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2000-04-03",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "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 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Patel Nagar Police Station, Delhi Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "convicted",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.95,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable, Patel Nagar Police Station, Delhi Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Patel Nagar resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/48900789/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://tarai24.com/national/from-bike-theft-to-a-cbi-trap-how-a-₹300-bribe-in-1999-led-to-a-delhi-cops-downfall/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. Investigating motorcycle-theft Crime 296/1999, Head Constable of Patel Nagar Police Station withheld the recovered bike's registration certificate and on 3 April 2000 demanded and accepted Rs 300 for returning it; the complainant went to the CBI ACB the same day and a trap caught him red-handed at 4 pm. The Special Judge, Delhi convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act 1988, sentencing him to six months RI with Rs 1,000 fine and one year RI with Rs 2,000 fine, concurrent. The Delhi High Court held demand inferable from circumstances, with recovery, the phenolphthalein test and presence forming a complete chain. Finding no infirmity in the impugned judgment, the court dismissed the appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "Investigating motorcycle-theft Crime 296/1999, Head Constable of Patel Nagar Police Station withheld the recovered bike's registration certificate and on 3 April 2000 demanded and accepted Rs 300 for returning it; the complainant went to the CBI ACB the same day and a trap caught him red-handed at 4 pm. The Special Judge, Delhi convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act 1988, sentencing him to six months RI with Rs 1,000 fine and one year RI with Rs 2,000 fine, concurrent. The Delhi High Court held demand inferable from circumstances, with recovery, the phenolphthalein test and presence forming a complete chain. Finding no infirmity in the impugned judgment, the court dismissed the appeal.",
 "court_quote": "In the case on hand, the prosecution has clearly established the demand and acceptance of illegal gratification through the consistent testimony of PW8 and the admission of payment by PW2. The recovery of tainted currency notes from the accused, along with the positive phenolphthalein test, further strengthens the prosecution case.",
 "court_quote_para": "38",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Appeal dismissed; 6-month/1-year RI for Rs 300 bribe upheld.",
 "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 Delhi High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "CRL.A. 897/2006",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-04-15",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "CRL.A. 897/2006",
   "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/48900789/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://tarai24.com/national/from-bike-theft-to-a-cbi-trap-how-a-₹300-bribe-in-1999-led-to-a-delhi-cops-downfall/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-31"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWBRIBER-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}