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 "case_id": "t2w2-04-003",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
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  "t2w2-04-003": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "accept"
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 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-054 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:40:03Z",
 "verdict_note": "HC suspension order confirms Madurai Special Court convicted the Kadupatti SI on 14-12-2022; appeal pending, sentence suspended.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Madurai",
 "court": "Special Court for Trial of Prevention of Corruption Act Cases, Madurai",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Special Court for Trial of Prevention of Corruption Act Cases, Madurai",
 "case_title": "State (V&AC, Madurai) v. Madurai Police Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "case_number": "Spl.C.No.2 of 2018",
 "conviction_date": "2022-12-14",
 "conviction_year": 2022,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2017-05-30",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police",
   "unit": "Kadupatti Police Station, Madurai",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Kadupatti Police Station, Madurai",
   "key2_union": "no",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Madurai resident"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years RI + Rs.2,000 fine (s.7) and 4 years RI + Rs.2,000 fine (s.13(2) r/w 13(1)(d)), concurrent; Rs.15,000 trap. Substantive sentence suspended pending appeal (CRL.M.P.(MD)No.16464 of 2022, Justice G. Ilangovan).",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 4,
 "appeal_status": "pending",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173424380/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173424380/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The Madurai Special Court for PC Act cases on 14 December 2022 convicted the Sub-Inspector of Kadupatti police station for demanding Rs.30,000 (reduced to Rs.15,000) to drop three names from Crime No.131/2017 and accepting Rs.15,000 in a V&AC trap laid on 30 May 2017 outside the police station, sentencing him to 3 years RI under PC Act s.7 and 4 years RI under s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d) concurrently. Seventeen prosecution witnesses and 33 documents were examined at trial. The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) suspended the substantive sentence pending disposal of CRL.A.(MD)No.884 of 2022; the officer's name is redacted in the published order.",
 "court_quote": "At the conclusion of the trial, the trial court found the petitioner guilty and sentenced him to undergo 3 years R/I.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-003": "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": "t2w2-04-003=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC, Madurai, Cr.No.2017 trap) v. Madurai Police Sub-Inspector of Police",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}