{
 "case_id": "t2-01-023",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-01-023": {
   "ds": "flag",
   "muse": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2verify-chunk-05",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-17T22:15:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "DVAC Tamil press note read in full confirms Inspector, Airport PS [name withheld], Rs.5,000 trap of 11.08.2009, Special Court Trichy conviction on 10.11.2022.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "court": "Special Court (Prevention of Corruption Act), Tiruchirappalli",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court, Tiruchirappalli (Special Judge for PC Act cases)",
 "case_title": "State (DVAC) vs Tiruchirappalli Police Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2022-11-10",
 "conviction_year": 2022,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2009-08-11",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Airport Police Station, Tiruchirappalli City",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, Airport Police Station, Tiruchirappalli City",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Tiruchirappalli resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 year RI + Rs.10,000 fine (demand); 3 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine (acceptance); concurrent",
 "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/2022/10-11-2022-Judgement-SJ%20CJM%2C%20Trichy%20convicted%20the%20accused%20Tr.Murugesan%2C%20Inspector%2C%20Airport%20PS.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/Press_Release.html"
 ],
 "summary": "The DVAC press note (Tamil) states Inspector of Airport P.S., [name withheld] phoned complainant [name withheld] on 11.08.2009 demanding Rs.5,000 to close a case against him favourably, was trapped accepting it, and was convicted on 10.11.2022. Court discrepancy: the Tamil PDF says Special Court, [name withheld] district; the press-page link text says 'Special Judge, [name withheld]'. [name withheld] (PDF body) taken as authoritative.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-01",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-01-023": "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": "t2-01-023=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (DVAC) v. Tiruchirappalli Police Inspector of Police and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}
