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 "case_id": "t2w2-04-011",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "gate_status": "V1",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w2-04-011": {
   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept",
   "or2": "flag"
  }
 },
 "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 judgment text confirms CJM [name withheld] convicted HC (A1) on 22-11-2007; appeal by substituted widow dismissed, conviction confirmed.",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tiruchirappalli",
 "court": "Chief Judicial Magistrate, Tiruchirappalli (Special Court)",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Chief Judicial Magistrate, Tiruchirappalli (Special Court)",
 "case_title": "State (V&AC Tiruchy, Crime No.15/2002) v. Tiruchirappalli Police Head Constable (A1)",
 "case_number": "Spl. Case No.6 of 2003",
 "conviction_date": "2007-11-22",
 "conviction_year": 2007,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "2002-08-12",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Head Constable (A1)",
   "unit": "Thottiam Police Station, Tiruchirappalli District",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Head Constable (A1), Thottiam Police Station, Tiruchirappalli District",
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Tiruchirappalli man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d)"
 ],
 "sentence": "Convicted and sentenced 22.11.2007 (quantum not restated in appellate judgment). Co-accused SI (A2) and HC (A4) acquitted by trial court; SSI (A3) died during trial (charge abated).",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/15856771/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/15856771/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The CJM Tiruchirappalli on 22 November 2007 convicted Head Constable of Thottiam police station (A1) for accepting a Rs.2,000 bribe in a 12 August 2002 V&AC trap to issue a Motor Vehicle Inspector requisition letter and release a van driver on bail after a road accident, while acquitting SI and HC for want of proof the money was for them (SSI died during trial). Tainted notes were recovered from [name withheld]'s uniform pocket with positive phenolphthalein tests. The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench, Justice G. Jayachandran) on 14 September 2018 dismissed the appeal pursued by his widow [name withheld] (Crl.A(MD)No.630 of 2007) and confirmed the conviction and sentence.",
 "court_quote": "In the result, this Criminal Appeal is dismissed and the Judgment and sentence dated 22.11.2007 passed in Spl. Case No.6 of 2003 by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Tiruchirappalli are confirmed.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w2-04",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w2-04-011": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V1 · Provenance checked — internal only",
 "tier_badge": null,
 "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": "t2w2-04-011=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "State (V&AC Tiruchy, Crime No.15/2002) v. Tiruchirappalli Police Head Constable (A1)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}