{
 "case_id": "t2-11-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2-11-002": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-038",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T11:00:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "PTI report confirms Kozhikode Vigilance Court (Judge Shibu Thomas) convicted CPO [name withheld] on 30 Jan 2026 (3y+Rs 25k s.7; 4y+Rs 25k s.13(2)) for Rs 5,000 bribe in 2017 Thenhipalam forgery case; caught taking balance Rs 3,000. Official VACB release checked 6 October 2026: seven years is the aggregate across concurrent counts, not the maximum term.",
 "state": "Kerala",
 "district": "Malappuram",
 "court": "Vigilance Court, Kozhikode",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Vigilance Court, Kozhikode (Judge Shibu Thomas)",
 "case_title": "State (VACB) vs Malappuram Police Civil Police Officer at time of offence (Grade Senior Civil Police Officer, Vadanappally PS, Thrissur, at conviction)",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2026-01-30",
 "conviction_year": 2026,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2017-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Civil Police Officer at time of offence (Grade Senior Civil Police Officer, Vadanappally PS, Thrissur, at conviction)",
   "unit": "Thenhipalam Police Station, Malappuram district (native of Ramanattukara)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Civil Police Officer at time of offence (Grade Senior Civil Police Officer, Vadanappally PS, Thrissur, at conviction), Thenhipalam Police Station, Malappuram district (native of Ramanattukara)",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years RI plus Rs 25,000 fine under s.7; 4 years RI plus Rs 25,000 fine under s.13(2) (total fine Rs 50,000)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": "Kerala Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau",
 "primary_source_url": "https://vigilance.kerala.gov.in/storage/pressreleases/tD7wqjTDthlPbWhsi4ixaZ6lCd1Dd6tlBj161mYU.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3788153-civil-police-officer-sentenced-to-four-years-rigorous-imprisonment-in-bribery-case"
 ],
 "summary": "Kozhikode Vigilance Court Judge Shibu Thomas convicted civil police officer of demanding and accepting a bribe in a 2017 Thenhipalam forgery case he was handling. [name withheld] threatened to implicate the complainant's wife as an accused, forcibly collected Rs 2,000 initially, and was caught red-handed by the VACB Northern Range team while accepting the remaining Rs 3,000 of the Rs 5,000 demand. The court found him guilty under two sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and imposed four years' rigorous imprisonment with Rs 50,000 total fine.",
 "court_quote": "Shibu Thomas on Friday found [name withheld] guilty under two sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-11",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2-11-002": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-06",
 "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": "t2-11-002=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-06",
   "scope": "Add the official Kerala VACB release as primary evidence. The release totals seven years across counts and explicitly says sentences run concurrently; it does not establish a seven-year maximum term. Existing maximum term retained from the separately cited news account.",
   "source": "https://vigilance.kerala.gov.in/storage/pressreleases/tD7wqjTDthlPbWhsi4ixaZ6lCd1Dd6tlBj161mYU.pdf",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "source_agency",
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   ]
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (VACB) vs Malappuram Police Civil Police Officer at time of offence (Grade Senior Civil Police Officer, Vadanappally PS, Thrissur, at conviction)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}