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 "case_id": "t2-01-027",
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 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
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   "ds": "flag",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag",
   "union": "flag"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-025 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:57:46.503939+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "English DVAC press note confirms CJM/Special Judge Chengalpattu conviction of Inspector, CC.No.03/2020.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Chennai",
 "court": "Chief Judicial Magistrate / Special Judge, Chengalpattu Sessions Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Chief Judicial Magistrate / Special Judge, Chengalpattu Sessions Court (Judge A.K.K. Rajini)",
 "case_title": "State (DVAC) v. Chennai Police Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": "CC.No.03/2020 (Cr.No.11/2018/AC/CC-1)",
 "conviction_date": "2021-01-07",
 "conviction_year": 2021,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2018-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "R-9 Valasaravakkam Traffic, Chennai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Inspector of Police, R-9 Valasaravakkam Traffic, Chennai",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Chennai resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years RI + Rs.10,000 fine",
 "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/2021/07-01-2021%20-%20Judgement%20-%20Tr.Iyyappan%2C%20formerly%20Inspector%20of%20Police%2C%20R-9%20Valasaravakkam%20Traffic.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.dvac.tn.gov.in/Press_Release.html"
 ],
 "summary": "The DVAC press note states former Inspector of R-9 Valasaravakkam Traffic demanded and accepted Rs.8,000 for releasing a [name withheld]'s vehicle (storm-water-drain work), and was convicted in CC.No.03/2020 by the CJM/Special Judge, Chengalpattu Sessions Court (Judge Rajini) on 07.01.2021 after a speedy trial completed within three months.",
 "court_quote": "Today 07-01-2021, Chief Judicial Magistrate/Special Judge, Chengalpattu Sessions Court pronounced judgment as Conviction of 3 years Rigourous Imprisonment and fine of Rs. 10,000/-, in CC.No. 03/2020, Cr.No.11/2018/AC/CC-1, u/s. 7 of PC (Amendment) Act, 2018 against [name withheld], formerly Inspector of Police, R-9 Valasaravakkam Traffic.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-01",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-01-027": "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": "t2-01-027=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (DVAC) v. Chennai Police Inspector of Police",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}