{
 "case_id": "t2w2-03-006",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-03-006": {
   "ds": "flag",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-051 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:45:04Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction of constable proved via BHC appeal judgment; conviction maintained, sentence cut.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Mumbai",
 "court": "Additional Sessions Judge and Designated Judge for POCSO, Greater Bombay",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge and Designated Judge for POCSO, Greater Bombay",
 "case_title": "State vs Maharashtra Police Police Constable (suspended from service much before the incident)",
 "case_number": "POCSO Special Case No. 364/2014 (Sion C.R. No. 155/2014)",
 "conviction_date": "2018-04-12",
 "conviction_year": 2018,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2014-05-07",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "misconduct",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "raw_subcategory": "sexual_assault",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (suspended from service much before the incident)",
   "unit": "Maharashtra Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (suspended from service much before the incident), Maharashtra Police",
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": 17,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Mumbai boy, age 17"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 377",
  "IPC 506 Part I",
  "POCSO Act 2012 s.4"
 ],
 "sentence": "10 yrs RI + Rs.20,000 fine (s.377); 2 yrs RI + Rs.5,000 fine (s.506-I); 10 yrs RI + Rs.20,000 fine (POCSO s.4); fines to victim as compensation",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 10.0,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2310000130120188watermark-1444325.pdf",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2310000130120188watermark-1444325.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.verdictum.in/amp/court-updates/high-courts/reduction-of-sentence-constable-sexual-assault-minor-boy-good-behaviour-in-jail-1451270"
 ],
 "summary": "The Additional Sessions Judge and Designated Judge for POCSO, Greater Bombay, on 12 April 2018 convicted former police constable in POCSO Special Case No.364/2014 for sexually assaulting a [name withheld] on 7 May 2014 (FIR Sion C.R. No.155/2014), relying on clinching DNA and medical evidence, and sentenced him to 10 years RI under IPC s.377 and POCSO s.4 plus 2 years under s.506-I. In December 2022 Justice Sarang Kotwal maintained the conviction but reduced the substantive sentence to the period already undergone (8+ years) citing good jail conduct.",
 "court_quote": "He was convicted for commission of offence punishable under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and was sentenced to suffer RI for ten years and to pay fine of Rs.20,000/-",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-006": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-03-006:appeal_order_date"
  ]
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "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": "t2w2-03-006=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State v. Maharashtra Police Police Constable (suspended from service much before the incident)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}