{
 "case_id": "t2-01-022",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-01-022": {
   "ds": "flag",
   "muse": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2verify-chunk-02",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-17T22:40:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "DVAC press note (Tamil, read in full) confirms Spl. Court Nagapattinam convicted SSI on 23.11.2022 for Rs 3,000 bribe; 1 yr + 2 yr RI concurrent.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Nagapattinam",
 "court": "Special Court, Nagapattinam (Special Judge for PC Act cases)",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court, Nagapattinam (Special Judge for PC Act cases)",
 "case_title": "State (DVAC) v. Nagapattinam Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2022-11-23",
 "conviction_year": 2022,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 2011,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Keezhaiyur Police Station, Nagapattinam district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Special Sub-Inspector of Police, Keezhaiyur Police Station, Nagapattinam district",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w 13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year + Rs.5,000 fine (demand); 2 years + Rs.5,000 fine (acceptance); concurrent (press-page link text: '2 years imprisonment and fine Rs.5,000')",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 2,
 "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/2022/23-11-2022-Judgement-Spl.Court%2C%20Nagapattinam%2C%20convicted%20the%20accused%20Tr.Sivanandam%2C%20SSI%2C%20Keezhaiyur%20PS.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/Press_Release.html"
 ],
 "summary": "The DVAC press note (Tamil) states SSI of Keezhaiyur P.S. demanded Rs.3,000 to drop the complainant's relative's name from the charge sheet in a 2011 fence-dispute case, was trapped accepting it, and was convicted by the Special Court, Nagapattinam on 23.11.2022.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-01",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-01-022": "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": "t2-01-022=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (DVAC) v. Nagapattinam Police Special Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}