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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0044",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0796",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Police Sub-Inspector v. State (CBI)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Sub-Inspector v. State (CBI)",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "North West",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "PS Ashok Vihar",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Police Sub-Inspector v. State (CBI)",
 "case_number": "CRL.A. 582/2003",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Chandrasekharan Sudha"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-01-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "1996-04-23",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "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": "Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "PS Ashok Vihar, Delhi Police",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector, PS Ashok Vihar, Delhi Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Delhi resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/76029012026CRLA5822003_154348.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://askjunior.substack.com/p/daily-judgments-of-30-january-535"
 ],
 "summary": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal of Delhi Police Sub-Inspector of PS Ashok Vihar and sustained his Tis Hazari conviction for demanding and accepting a Rs.2,000 bribe in Crime No.204/96, caught in a CBI trap on 23 April 1996. The court relied on the independent witness account of marked currency falling from upstairs and the pink phenolphthalein hand-wash test, holding there was no material to doubt the prosecution case. It held the complainant's other complaints were no ground to disbelieve him and that investigation by an unauthorised officer did not vitiate the trial absent prejudice. The appellant died on 2 October 2022 so the substantive sentence (6 months plus 1 year SI with fines) stands abated under Section 394(2) CrPC, but the conviction was upheld on merits with fine surviving. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal of Delhi Police Sub-Inspector of PS Ashok Vihar and sustained his Tis Hazari conviction for demanding and accepting a Rs.2,000 bribe in Crime No.204/96, caught in a CBI trap on 23 April 1996. The court relied on the independent witness account of marked currency falling from upstairs and the pink phenolphthalein hand-wash test, holding there was no material to doubt the prosecution case. It held the complainant's other complaints were no ground to disbelieve him and that investigation by an unauthorised officer did not vitiate the trial absent prejudice. The appellant died on 2 October 2022 so the substantive sentence (6 months plus 1 year SI with fines) stands abated under Section 394(2) CrPC, but the conviction was upheld on merits with fine surviving.",
 "court_quote": "PW3 has clearly deposed that he had seen the currency notes falling down from upstairs and that he had picked up the same. PW3 also deposed that the hand wash of the accused had also turned pink when the same was dipped in the sodium carbonate solution. In such circumstances, I do not find any materials to doubt or discard the prosecution case.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified via official PDF; SI bribery conviction sustained on merits, sentence abated on death.",
 "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. 582/2003",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-01-29",
   "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. 582/2003",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/app/showFileJudgment/76029012026CRLA5822003_154348.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://askjunior.substack.com/p/daily-judgments-of-30-january-535",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-20-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}