{
 "case_id": "t2w2-03-015",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-03-015": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-052",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:06:24Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction upheld on appeal; police bribery conviction stands.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "State v. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 228 of 2005",
 "conviction_date": "2005-03-28",
 "conviction_year": 2005,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2001-05-01",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector",
   "unit": "Mahanubhav Ashram Police Chowki / Kranti Chowk Police Station, Aurangabad",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Mahanubhav Ashram Police Chowki / Kranti Chowk Police Station, Aurangabad",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "6 mo RI + Rs.250 fine (s.7); 1 yr RI + Rs.250 fine (s.13)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/8784542/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/8784542/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge, Aurangabad, in Sessions Case No.22/2001 on 28 March 2005 convicted PSI for demanding Rs.1,000 (settled at Rs.500) from [name withheld]-complainant [name withheld] on 29-30 May 2001 to act on his police complaint and arrest Dr. Abdul Hameed, caught in an ACB trap accepting five anthracene-smeared Rs.100 notes at the Mahanubhav Ashram police chowki, sentencing him to 1 year's RI under PC Act s.13 plus 6 months under s.7. On 17 June 2022 Justice R.G. Avachat (Aurangabad Bench, Crl Appeal No.228/2005, pursued by Chavan's widow after his death) dismissed the appeal, upholding the well-reasoned conviction. Exact trap date not stated; May 2001 from demand sequence.",
 "court_quote": "Criminal Appeal thus fails. The same is dismissed",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-015": "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": "t2w2-03-015=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2005-03-28); the previous value (2022-06-17) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (ACB) v. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Police Police Sub-Inspector",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2022-06-17",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}