{
 "case_id": "t2w2-03-022",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-03-022": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-052",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:06:24Z",
 "verdict_note": "Trial conviction confirmed on appeal (sentence modified); police bribery conviction stands.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar",
 "court": "Bombay High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge (AC), Aurangabad",
 "case_title": "State v. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Police Police Head Constable (B.No.729)",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 480 of 2000",
 "conviction_date": "2000-12-08",
 "conviction_year": 2000,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1994-09-12",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Head Constable (B.No.729)",
   "unit": "Police Station Shivoor, Tq. Vaijapur, Aurangabad",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable (B.No.729), Police Station Shivoor, Tq. Vaijapur, 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": "Trial: 1 yr RI + Rs.200 (s.7); 2 yrs RI + Rs.300 (s.13); HC modified to 6 mo + Rs.2,000 (s.7) and 1 yr + Rs.3,000 (s.13), concurrent",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189252805/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189252805/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge (AC), Aurangabad, in Special Case No.1/1995 on 8 December 2000 convicted Police Head Constable (B.No.729) of Shivoor police station for demanding Rs.3,000 (reduced to Rs.2,000) from complainant [name withheld] on 9 September 1994 to release his brother and cousin on bail in a crop-damage case, caught in a PI Nalawade ACB trap at the police station on 12 September 1994, sentencing him to 2 years' RI under PC Act s.13 plus 1 year under s.7. On 27 July 2017 Justice Sangitrao Patil (Aurangabad Bench, Crl Appeal No.480/2000) confirmed the convictions but reduced custody (6 months / 1 year) while enhancing fines, ordering surrender by 3 August 2017.",
 "court_quote": "Being aggrieved by the judgment and order dated 8th December, 2000, passed in Special Case No. 1 of 1995 by the learned Special Judge (A.C.), Aurangabad, convicting the appellant for the offences punishable under Sections 7 and 13 (2) read with Section 13 (1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-022": "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": "t2w2-03-022=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Audit fix: trial conviction date corrected to the date the summary's source states (2000-12-08); the previous value (2017-07-27) was the date of the later High Court/Supreme Court order."
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (ACB) v. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Police Police Head Constable (B.No.729)",
 "conviction_date_source_order": "2017-07-27",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}