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 "case_id": "t2w2-03-029",
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 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-03-029": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify-chunk-053",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T16:45:00+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "Bombay HC dismissed appeal on 13-01-2016; Pune Special Judge conviction of HC stands.",
 "state": "Maharashtra",
 "district": "Pune",
 "court": "Special Judge, Pune",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Judge, Pune",
 "case_title": "State of Maharashtra vs Sonyabapu Bhau Sarjine",
 "case_number": "Special Case No.6/1992; Crl Appeal No.236/1995 (Bombay HC)",
 "conviction_date": "1995-05-06",
 "conviction_year": 1995,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1992-01-23",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Police Head Constable (Police Constable in cause title)",
   "unit": "Shirur Police Station, Pune",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "name_public": "Sonyabapu Bhau Sarjine",
   "display": "Sonyabapu Bhau Sarjine (Police Head Constable (Police Constable in cause title))",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": "Sonyabapu Bhau Sarjine"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)"
 ],
 "sentence": "1 yr RI + Rs.500 (ss.7/13(1)(d)); 1 yr RI + Rs.500 (s.13(2))",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/73169708/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/73169708/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Special Judge, Pune, in Special Case No.6/1992 on 6 May 1995 convicted Head Constable of Shirur police station for demanding Rs.1,000 at a 26 October 1991 accident spot (paid) to release a brick-kiln truck and then Rs.500 (negotiated to Rs.200) from driver-complainant [name withheld] on 20 January 1992 to return seized permit/licence documents, caught in an ACB trap at Shirur police station on 23 January 1992 following the 22 January complaint, sentencing him to 1 year's RI on each PC Act count. On 13 January 2016 Justice Sadhana Jadhav (Crl Appeal No.236/1995) dismissed the appeal, upholding the conviction via the s.20 presumption and ordering surrender within four weeks of 1 February 2016.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above discussion, the appeal stands dismissed",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-03",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-03-029": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": [
   "t2w2-03-029:summary_demand_20Jan1992"
  ]
 },
 "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": "t2w2-03-029=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (ACB) v. Sonyabapu Bhau Sarjine (Special Case No.6/1992; Crl Appeal No.236/1995)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}