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 "case_id": "t2-01-021",
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 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
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   "mverify2": "accept",
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-025 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:57:46.473191+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "DVAC press-note PDF + English index line both record Special Judge Virudhunagar conviction of Inspector.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Virudhunagar",
 "court": "Special Court, Virudhunagar (Special Judge for PC Act cases)",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court, Virudhunagar (Special Judge for PC Act cases)",
 "case_title": "State (DVAC) v. Virudhunagar Police Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2022-11-29",
 "conviction_year": 2022,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2022-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2022,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Ammathur Police Station, Virudhunagar district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Ammathur Police Station, Virudhunagar district",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Virudhunagar man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w 13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "2 years RI + Rs.5,000 fine (demand); 3 years RI + Rs.5,000 fine (acceptance); concurrent (press-page link text: '3 years imprisonment and fine Rs.5,000')",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "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/2022/29-11-2022-Judgement-SJ%2C%20Virudhunagar%2C%20convicted%20the%20accused%20Tr.Usman%20Ali%2C%20Inspr.of%20Police%2C%20Ammathur%20PS.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/Press_Release.html"
 ],
 "summary": "The DVAC press note (Tamil) states Inspector of Ammathur P.S., who was investigating a case against lorry driver [name withheld], demanded Rs.4,000 to hand over the accident-hit lorry, was trapped accepting it, and was convicted by the Special Court, Virudhunagar on 29.11.2022.",
 "court_quote": "V&AC - Judgement - the Special Judge, Virudhunagar convicted the accused Tr.[name withheld], Inspector of Police, Ammathur P.S., Virudhunagar district to undergo 3 years imprisonment and fine amount Rs.5,000/- for demanded and accepted bribe on 29.11.2022.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-01",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-01-021": "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",
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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 row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-01-021=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (DVAC) v. Virudhunagar Police Inspector of Police",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}