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 "case_id": "t2w2-03-027",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-053",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T16:45:00+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC confirmed Satara Special Judge conviction of 2 Dahiwadi policemen on 09-04-2021.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Satara",
 "court": "Special Judge, Satara",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Satara",
 "case_title": "State of Maharashtra vs Satara Police Police Constable (P.C.B. No.454) and others",
 "case_number": "Special Case No.7/1994; Crl Appeal No.687/2000 (Bombay HC)",
 "conviction_date": "2000-09-21",
 "conviction_year": 2000,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1993-06-23",
 "incident_year": 1993,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.454)",
   "unit": "Dahiwadi Police Station, Tal. Man, Satara",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (P.C.B. No.454), Dahiwadi Police Station, Tal. Man, Satara",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "Police Head Constable",
   "unit": "Dahiwadi Police Station, Tal. Man, Satara",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable, Dahiwadi Police Station, Tal. Man, Satara",
   "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": "A-2 and A-3 each: 6 mo SI + Rs.500 (s.7); 1 yr SI + Rs.500 (s.13), concurrent; A-1 Ramesh Shinde (hotelier): 6 mo SI + Rs.500 (s.12)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/767094/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/767094/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge, Satara, in Special Case No.7/1994 on 21 September 2000 convicted Head Constable (A-3) and Constable [name withheld] of Dahiwadi police station for demanding Rs.200 from a complainant on 22 June 1993 to avoid arrest in a well-water dispute with his brother, caught in a DySP [name withheld] ACB Satara trap at the police station and Ashok Hotel on 23 June 1993 (A-3 demanded, A-2 collected via hotelier A-1), sentencing each policeman to 1 year's SI under PC Act s.13 plus 6 months under s.7. On 9 April 2021 Justice Bharati Dangre (Crl Appeal No.687/2000) confirmed the judgment, partly allowing the appeal only to acquit A-2 under s.7 while sustaining his s.13 conviction and both convictions of A-3.",
 "court_quote": "the judgment and order dated 21/09/2000 passed by the Special Judge, Satara in Special Case No.7 of 1994 is confirmed",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-027": "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",
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  {
   "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": "t2w2-03-027=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (ACB) v. Satara Police Police Constable (P.C.B. No.454)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}