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 "case_id": "t2w2-01-014",
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  "t2w3-28-012"
 ],
 "verification_status": "V1",
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   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  },
  "t2w3-28-012": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T10:45:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Special Judge PC Act bribery conviction of sub-inspector confirmed; HC dismissed appeal and affirmed conviction and sentence.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Azamgarh",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge (Prevention of Corruption Act), Court No.5, Gorakhpur",
 "case_title": "State vs UP Police Sub-Inspector (In-charge, police outpost Lalghat)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 5855 of 2015",
 "conviction_date": "2015-11-30",
 "conviction_year": 2015,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2008-10-06",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector (In-charge, police outpost Lalghat)",
   "unit": "PS Jiyanpur, Azamgarh, UP Police (resident Gahni, PS Bahariyabad, Ghazipur)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector (In-charge, police outpost Lalghat), PS Jiyanpur, Azamgarh, UP Police (resident Gahni, PS Bahariyabad, Ghazipur)",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Azamgarh woman"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years RI + Rs 10,000 fine (s.7; 4 months default) and 4 years RI + Rs 20,000 fine (s.13; 6 months default)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143442172/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Allahabad High Court (Crl. Appeal No. 5855/2015 judgment dated 08-12-2016 recording Special Judge conviction)",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143442172/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/gorakhpur/crime/4-year-jail-to-police-man-to-take-bribe-hindi-news"
 ],
 "summary": "Special Judge (PC Act) Court No. 5 Gorakhpur on 30 November 2015 convicted SI, in-charge of outpost Lalghat (PS Jiyanpur, Azamgarh), for demanding Rs 5,000 from complainant [name withheld] to recover her kidnapped 12-year-old daughter, accepting Rs 3,000 and being trapped by the Vigilance Establishment Gorakhpur on 6 October 2008 while taking the remaining Rs 2,000; he drew 3 years RI under s.7 and 4 years RI under s.13 PC Act with Rs 30,000 total fine. The Allahabad High Court (Pratyush Kumar J, Crl. Appeal 5855/2015, 8 December 2016) dismissed his appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, directing him to serve the remainder.",
 "court_quote": "The appellant has been convicted under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and punished with rigorous imprisonment of three years and fine of Rs.10,000/-.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-01+t2w3-28",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
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   "t2w3-28-012": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "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": "t2w2-01-014=holds, t2w3-28-012=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2015-11-30); the previous value (2016-12-08) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State vs UP Police Sub-Inspector (In-charge, police outpost Lalghat)",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2016-12-08",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}
