{
 "case_id": "t2-01-010",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-01-010": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-024",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T12:58:49.635375+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "DVAC press note confirms SI (Traffic) convicted by CJM cum Special Judge Kancheepuram.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Kancheepuram",
 "court": "Chief Judicial Magistrate cum Special Judge, Kancheepuram",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Chief Judicial Magistrate cum Special Judge, Kancheepuram",
 "case_title": "State (DVAC) v. Kancheepuram Police Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": "Spl.C.C.No.36/2024",
 "conviction_date": "2025-02-21",
 "conviction_year": 2025,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2009-11-26",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Traffic, Kancheepuram district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Traffic, Kancheepuram district",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Kancheepuram resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w 13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "2 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine u/s 7; 3 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine u/s 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d); concurrent. (Press-page link text says Rs.20,000 total.)",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/pdf/Press_Release/2025/21-02-2025-Judgement%20-%20CJM%2C%20Kancheepuram%20convicted%20the%20accused%20Tr.Thangaraj%2C%20SI%2C%20Traffic%2C%20Kancheepuram.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/Press_Release.html",
  "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/convictions.html (entry: SI Traffic Kancheepuram, Spl.C.C.No.36/2024)"
 ],
 "summary": "The DVAC press note states SI of Traffic, Kancheepuram seized complainant [name withheld]'s documents for two-wheeler overspeeding and demanded Rs.2,000 for not registering a case, was trapped accepting it on 26.11.2009, and was convicted by the CJM cum Special Judge, Kancheepuram on 21.02.2025.",
 "court_quote": "Today 21.02.2025 Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Cum Special Court, Kancheepuram pronounced the judgment against Tr.[name withheld], Sub-Inspector of Police, Traffic and sentenced him to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for 2 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000/- u/s.7 of PC Act, 1988.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-01",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-01-010": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-01-010=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (DVAC) v. Kancheepuram Police Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}